Lisa Pulitzer
The Archive
CABBY JAILED FOR KILLING FARE
September 3, 2004 | 4:00amA Long Island cabby who threw a tire iron at a drunken passenger trying to evade a $5 fare was sentenced to a year in prison yesterday for criminally negligent...
HE'LL ROT IN JAIL - L.I. MAN GETS LIFE FOR EXECUTING WIFE
August 26, 2004 | 4:00amA judge sentenced a remorseless Long Island man to 25 years to life in prison yesterday for shooting his wife in the back of the head and then brazenly claiming...
GUARD GOT EX-CON TO 'STEAL' FOR HER: DA
August 26, 2004 | 4:00amA Long Island correction officer used a former inmate as her personal shopper - sending him out to steal items from Home Depot and other stores, which he'd sell to...
GRANNY AX ATTACK - MAN GOES BERSERK OVER SANDWICH: COPS
August 26, 2004 | 4:00amA twisted Long Island man exploded in fury at his aging grandmother and tried to chop her into pieces - because she fried his eggs instead of scrambling them, police...
NO-BELT GIRL DIES IN CRASH
August 25, 2004 | 4:00amHer mom didn't strap her in with a seat belt, so there was nothing to prevent a 5-year-old girl's fatal injury in an accident in Hempstead, police said yesterday. The...
PLUCKY L.I. CLERK FOILS HEFTY HEISTER
August 25, 2004 | 4:00amAn overweight woman with a green towel wrapped around her head in a turban aimed a gun at a Long Island grocery clerk and demanded cash - but fled empty-handed...
BATTLE FOR SLAY MA'S 2ND BABY
August 25, 2004 | 4:00amSocial workers in Nassau County are trying to figure out what to do with a baby girl born to a woman jailed awaiting sentencing for killing another of her children....
'DRUNK' QNS. MOM ASLEEP AT WHEEL: COPS
August 24, 2004 | 4:00amA Queens mom was arrested after police found her asleep at the wheel of a car stopped in the middle of the road with her two children in the back...
L.I. DRAG-RACE KILLER JAILED AFTER 12 YRS. ON LAM
August 21, 2004 | 4:00amFinally facing justice for killing two in a Long Island street drag race, a 70-year-old man who hid out for 12 years in the tiny European republic of San Marino...
L.I. COPS BUST BIRD-BRAINED BURGLAR
August 19, 2004 | 4:00amCall it the case of the purloined parrot. Nassau County police have busted a Long Island man for allegedly stealing a valuable yellow-naped Amazon parrot from his cage in a...
BEDDER IS NOW WORSE - SEX STALLS DIVORCE BID
August 11, 2004 | 4:00amA Long Island woman may have blown her bid for a divorce by saying yes to a little nookie with her adulterous husband after he 'fessed up to an affair....
L.I. MORON 'FORGER' NO EVIL GENIUS
August 7, 2004 | 4:00amA Long Island man with the same name as the author of the James Bond spy novels lacked the evil genius of a Bond villain, say Nassau County cops who...
L.I. TEEN IN GRIM JOYRIDE MISHAP
August 7, 2004 | 4:00amHorseplay turned to tragedy when a 16-year-old boy joyriding with four Long Island pals fell out a car's open door headfirst onto the pavement, police said yesterday. Daniel Gonzalez, 16,...
JOYRIDING STUNT PUTS KID IN HOSP
August 7, 2004 | 4:00amHorseplay turned to tragedy when a 16-year-old joyriding with four Long Island pals fell out a car's open door headfirst onto the pavement, police said yesterday. Daniel Gonzalez, 16, of...
FURY OVER FIREBOMB TEENS' WRIST-SLAP
July 14, 2004 | 4:00amTwo of the three Long Island teens who were sentenced yesterday for firebombing a house were spared jail time in the vicious hate crime, infuriating their victims. "I don't see...
DEADLY ARSON PUZZLES COPS
July 7, 2004 | 4:00amPolice say they are baffled by a vicious arson that killed a Long Island mother of three and left her husband and two young children hospitalized in critical condition. "We're...
KIDS STEAL HS SHRINK'S DATA: COPS
June 30, 2004 | 4:00amTwo Long Island students stole a password, logged onto a school computer and downloaded psychological evaluations of fellow students, authorities said yesterday. Christopher Kabacinski, 18, and Ryan Webb, 16, who...
HOME-INVADER SEX FIEND BUSTED: COPS
June 30, 2004 | 4:00amA pervert who broke into two Long Island homes, and sexually assaulted sleeping women was busted after one victim identified him as a carpenter who had worked on her home,...
ARREST IN TERRIFYING SEX RAIDS
June 30, 2004 | 4:00amA pervert who broke into two Long Island homes, and sexually assaulted sleeping women was busted after one victim identified him as a carpenter who had worked on her home,...
GRISLY MURDER ORDEAL - HAMPTONS HORROR CASE
June 25, 2004 | 4:00amA slain Westhampton woman whose car was found torched several months ago was also raped, tortured and brutalized by her jilted co-worker, police said yesterday as they slapped him with...