An ABC7 Eyewitness News helicopter made an emergency landing in a baseball field of a Queens high school Thursday morning, according to New York City Emergency Management. The chopper was forced to land suddenly on the field at Archbishop Molloy High School in Briarwood at 6:30 a.m. after the indicator light went on, said police. … Read more
The president of the probation officers union on Monday blasted the way Department of Probation leadership handled the case of the 5,000 bullets that went unaccounted for from the NYPD’s firing range at Rodmans Neck in the Bronx. Dalvanie Powell told the Daily News the two female probation officers who discovered the problem last July … Read more
Four of Mayor Adams’ top deputies submitted resignations Monday after telling him they’re concerned about his ability to govern following an unusual decision by President Trump’s Justice Department to drop his corruption indictment with politically charged strings attached, the Daily News has learned. The departures of First Deputy Mayor Maria Torres-Springer, Deputy Mayor for Operations … Read more
Toronto Pearson International Airport reported Monday afternoon that a Delta flight arriving from Minnesota was involved in an “incident” while making its landing. The plane ended up on the runway where it appeared to be upside down. Airport officials posted notice that emergency teams were responding and all passengers were accounted for shortly before 3 … Read more
City Council Speaker Adrienne Adams called on Mayor Adams to resign Monday, becoming the latest top-ranking city official to demand he step down as a push for his forcible removal also began taking shape. The speaker, who stopped short of demanding the mayor’s resignation after he was indicted on corruption charges in September, said in … Read more
More than 100 Department of Correction officers turned out Friday at an Upper West Side hospital to applaud the release of a female colleague who was seriously injured after she was punched in the face by a man held on Rikers Island who is accused of also previously attacking an MTA station agent. The officers … Read more
One of the lead prosecutors handling the sweeping public corruption case against Mayor Adams resigned on Friday — in a searing letter to President Trump’s Department of Justice saying he wouldn’t be the “fool” who files a motion to dismiss the case based on support for the administration’s immigration objectives and not the law. Assistant … Read more
Outraged LGBTQ+ activists and human rights advocates gathered in Manhattan’s Greenwich Village Friday afternoon to protest against the Trump administration’s latest — and perhaps boldest — attack on the community. A day earlier, internet users noticed that all references to the words “transgender” and “queer” had been removed from the Stonewall National Monument website, a … Read more
A 14-year-old boy has died after being stabbed in Queens in a possible gang attack, police said Friday. The victim was stabbed in the abdomen around 3:30 p.m. near 38th St. and Queens Blvd. in Sunnyside, police said. Medics rushed the boy to Weill Cornell Medical Center in Manhattan, but he could not be saved. … Read more
A federal appeals court has rejected fallen R&B star R. Kelly’s bid to overturn his New York sex trafficking and racketeering conviction. Kelly, 58, who was sentenced to 30 years in prison in June 2022 on racketeering and sex trafficking charges, argued through his attorneys that he didn’t run a racketeering enterprise because his employees … Read more