A 15-year-old boy died early Friday as he tried to ride the top of a subway train at a Queens station, police said. Cops called to the Queensboro Plaza station found the teen lying unconscious on the train tracks for the No. 7 line at about 2:45 a.m., police said. EMS rushed the teen to … Read more
A man charged with raping a 15-year-old girl in a Bronx stairwell had recently been released from prison — where he spent eight years for sexually assaulting a young boy and throwing him off a rooftop, authorities said. Casmine Aska, 29, had been out of prison for less than one month when he allegedly attacked … Read more
Powerful thunderstorms that swept through New Jersey on Thursday killed at least three people and knocked out power to thousands, officials said. In a social media post late Thursday night, Gov. Phil Murphy said he had been briefed on the “severe thunderstorms that hit Central Jersey … and resulted in fatalities.” Without providing additional details, … Read more
President Trump threatened on Tuesday to arrest Zohran Mamdani if he gets in the way of federal immigration enforcement efforts — and also falsely implied that the New York City Democratic mayoral nominee is not in the country legally. Asked during a press conference in Florida on Tuesday what his response was to Mamdani’s anti-ICE … Read more
A man was stabbed and wounded during a bloody clash inside a Harlem subway station, police said Wednesday. The 56-year-old victim was stabbed in both shoulders as he fought with his attacker on the uptown train platform at the W. 125th St. station, cops said. A man was stabbed repeatedly on the uptown subway platform … Read more
Jurors weighing the federal case against Sean “Diddy” Combs on Tuesday told the court they’d reached a verdict on all counts except the RICO conspiracy charge, which had drawn “unpersuadable opinions on both sides.” In a note sent out after 4 p.m., the eight men and four women on the jury said after around 12 … Read more
A Kansas police officer and the man he was trying to arrest shot and killed each other after an illegal fireworks report, authorities said Saturday. Brandon Gaede, a 30-year-old deputy with the Phillips County sheriff’s office, responded to the illegal fireworks call around 9:30 p.m. Friday in Phillipsburg, police said. He encountered 27-year-old Kolton Griffith … Read more
One could argue, as his lawyers have for months, that Luis Bernier should be out of prison by now. Instead he has languished on Rikers Island since March 12 because he can’t get transferred to prison due to the ripples still emanating from the state prison guards strike that ended in March. Bernier, 34, is … Read more
Three men brutally attacked a 28-year-old woman in Queens, yelling anti-LGBTQ slurs at her — with one of the assailants strangling her until she lost consciousness — in what cops are investigating as a possible hate crime, according to a police source. The victim and her attackers, who knew each other, got into an argument … Read more
An unsuspecting and innocent Montrell Williams stood next to his dad for several minutes on an expressway overpass last month before the unhinged father hoisted the toddler over the railing and into the cold, murky waters of the Bronx River below, prosecutors said Thursday. “Montrell was seen alive and standing near his father moments before … Read more