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
A 50-year-old man found stabbed in the back of the neck at a Greenwich Village subway station has died, police said Tuesday. The city’s medical examiner on Friday declared the death of Vincent Norman a homicide after he succumbed to his injuries at Bellevue Hospital. Transit officers were conducting an inspection at the W. Fourth … Read more
A Brooklyn ballet dancer who stopped into his local 99-cent store to buy balloons — only to be attacked with a razor by a 79-year-old worker accused of spewing homophobic slurs — says the suspect appeared to be trying to stab his eye out. Nathaniel Platt was in a hurry to make a dance performance … Read more
Palestinian activist Mahmoud Khalil, who was detained for more than three months, pushed his infant son’s stroller with one hand and pumped his fist in the air with the other as supporters welcomed him home Saturday. Mahmoud Khalil greeted friends and spoke briefly to reporters Saturday at New Jersey’s Newark International Airport a day after … Read more
Around three dozen people were injured after a mega yacht struck a Hudson River dock in upper Manhattan on Saturday afternoon, the FDNY said. First responders rushed to the scene around 4:18 p.m. near the Henry Hudson Parkway and W. 130th St. off of West Harlem after a large cocktail cruise ship with several hundred … Read more
New York City elected officials and the NYPD announced Saturday night an increase in police presence at sensitive sites following the U.S. striking three Iranian nuclear facilities. “We’re tracking the situation unfolding in Iran,” the NYPD said in a post on X around 9 p.m., an hour before President Trump discussed the strikes in a … Read more
A BMW driver has been arrested after a four-month investigation for fatally striking a 75-year-old Bronx man walking home from mosque, police said Thursday. Rafael Delgado, 61, was charged Wednesday with reckless endangerment, failure to yield and failure to exercise due care, cops said. Victim Wahid Miah had the right of way as he crossed … Read more