John Doyle
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PlayStation arson fight
This gamer wasn't playing around. The arson blaze that gutted a Brooklyn home was set by a furious tenant who believed a neighbor stole his PlayStation, authorities said yesterday. Lloyd...
B’klyn arson blaze rages
Roaring flames came bursting from the windows of a Brooklyn home yesterday in a fast-moving suspected arson fire that gutted the building. Authorities believe the blaze at 3401 Clarendon Road...
O condom merchant penile-ized
Thomas Jefferson and his pals could never have envisioned this legal battle when they wrote the Bill of Rights: Does the First Amendment cover a street vendor's right to sell...
NYPD Daily Blotter
Brooklyn Cops yesterday negotiated for more than three hours with a suicidal man (pictured) while he stood on the edge of a roof in Crown Heights. The unidentified man first...
Couple gunned down
A young woman believed to be pregnant with her second child was killed along with her boyfriend after a gunman opened fire on the couple early yesterday in a courtyard...
Couple slain, man wounded in Sheepshead Bay shooting
A young couple was killed -- and a third man left clinging to life -- after a gunman opened fire early today in a courtyard at a Sheepshead Bay housing...
Cig ban's ifs, ands & many butts
They're not exactly kicking butt. Parks patrol officers have been told to politely enforce the new smoking ban -- and set up a system where violators essentially have to beg...
NYPD Daily Blotter
Brooklyn A man stumbled into Veterans Hospital near the Fort Hamilton Army Base at about 5:30 a.m. yesterday and said he was in car when someone shot him in the...
Randalls a thieves' paradise
Randalls Island is a real hot spot -- for thieves. Over the last two years, burglars have fleeced taxpayers by swiping everything from copper piping at city-owned buildings to Parks...
NYPD Daily Blotter
Brooklyn The man in this sketch (top image) allegedly opened fire aboard a city bus in Bushwick, wounding an 18-year-old passenger. The suspect allegedly fired once as the B-60 neared...
Cop blows brains out on street
A uniformed NYPD cop angry over his girlfriend's Facebook postings -- and scared she'd leave him -- fatally shot himself right in front of the woman on a Manhattan street...
Movie honcho's kid in arson bust
The son of a top film exec whose company distributed the Oscar-winner "The King's Speech" was arrested yesterday for setting a fire at a Brooklyn public-school playground, sources said. Max...
NYPD cop kills himself in Murray Hill
A police officer shot and killed himself early today outside a Manhattan apartment building, authorities said. Philip Chlanda, 29, who is assigned to Tribeca's 1st Precinct, was so distraught that...
Berserk in ambulance
A deranged ambulance patient started a fight with a medic on a Long Island highway, then stole the car of an off-duty NYPD officer who stopped to help, authorities said...
Union Square Park sees spike in drug use, petty crimes
Welcome to Methadone Alley! Addicts flocking to the drug clinics that surround Union Square Park have created a "lawless city within a city" where they've been overdosing on drugs and...
Gun hero's 'Liberty' link
The undercover officer who fatally shot a Brooklyn gun dealer this week is a hero detective and Liberty Award Medal finalist in the Finest category. The 33-year-old officer, called as...
Student sliced at Upper West Side school during fight
A student was wounded when a boy hurled a knife at him during a fight inside an Upper West Side school. The unidentified 14-year-old student had been fighting with another...
NYPD Daily Blotter
Brooklyn A stick-up at a pharmacy sent a neighboring grammar school into lockdown as cops searched for the armed bandit in Sheepshead Bay yesterday. The crook, armed with a silver...
Sis sought in Qns. slay
A 58-year-old woman was found butchered in her Queens home -- her nose and ears sliced off -- and investigators say they want to question a sister who lived with...
Qns. woman found dead with nose & ears cut off
A 58-year-old woman was found butchered -- with her nose and ears cut off -- inside her Queens home, and cops are looking to question her younger sister, police said...