12 March 2010, 3:43 am
A local war veteran arrested earlier this year after allegedly making a series of death and suicide threats will be sent to a New York City psychiatric hospital for 30 days of evaluation and treatment.... Read More »
10 March 2010, 1:42 pm
Flushing imam Ahmad Wais Afzali pleaded guilty in a Brooklyn court last Thursday to lying to federal authorities who were investigating a terror plot involving a member of his Queens mosque.He was initially charged after his arrest in September 2009 with lying to authorities in the course of a...... Read More »
10 March 2010, 7:13 am
Carroll Gardens ( Daniel Krieger's Flickr ) Police are investigating a possible hate crime that allegedly took place in Carroll Gardens shortly after 8 p.m on Tuesday, March 2nd. Investigators say the victim, an unnamed 22-year-old man, was severely beaten by five men shouting anti-gay slurs, near L... Read More »
10 March 2010, 7:04 am
After spending time in the New York hardcore scene of the late ’80s and then the Mod revival of Washington, D.C.’s 1990s with Chisel , Ted Leo is finally on the cusp. If you’re releasing your first album in two years ( The Brutalist Bricks ), jumping labels in the process (from Touch & Go to M... Read More »
10 March 2010, 4:46 am
A father is on trial for obstruction of justice because he followed his son’s instructions to retrieve cash, which turned out to have been stolen.... Read More »
8 March 2010, 8:27 am
Missing from news accounts of Imam Afzali's plea was any reference to the NYPD's near-fatal bungling of Najibullah Zazi's subway plot, the most serious terrorism threat to New York since 9/11.... Read More »
7 March 2010, 8:12 pm
If you don't think the police in New York City need to be reined in, consider the way the cops and t ...... Read More »
7 March 2010, 4:24 pm
New York City cops caught driving drunk may have problems to worry about - but losing their job usually isn't one of them.... Read More »
6 March 2010, 9:08 am
It’s time to rein in the way police and safety officers in New York public schools mistreat students.... Read More »
3 March 2010, 9:37 am
The investigation into the stabbing death of a Jersey City father of two at a Queens house party early Sunday morning is ongoing and no arrest has yet been made, a spokeswoman for the New York Police Department said today.At...... Read More »