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NYC livery driver charged with raping 12-year-old girl beat her unconscious first: DA
A livery cab driver charged with raping a 12-year-old girl in the backseat of his car allegedly threatened her with a gun and beat her unconscious during the vicious assault,...
100-year-old World War II vet James Been fighting eviction
A World War II veteran who overcame harsh segregation and just celebrated his 100th birthday is fighting a new battle -- against eviction from his Bedford-Stuyvesant home. Centenarian James Been...
Man charged in cruel NYC rape was freed in two prior assault cases this year
A Brooklyn man accused of attacking a woman so viciously that he left her in a vegetative state had been charged in two prior assaults this year -- but was...
Funeral home slapped with multiple suits for storing bodies in U-Hauls
The Brooklyn funeral home shuttered for storing decomposing bodies in U-Haul trucks amid the coronavirus crisis is facing a wave of litigation from families outraged over the treatment of their...
Woman arrested for using ax to break into Brooklyn Supreme Court
A woman was arrested Sunday for breaking into a closed courtroom where she had a previous custody case at Brooklyn Supreme Court, law enforcement sources said. Jessica Pena, 35, allegedly...
NYCHA tenants file new lawsuit over dangerous living conditions
Fed-up tenants filed a new lawsuit against the city's embattled housing authority on Wednesday, challenging the agency over squalid and dangerous conditions in the Big Apple's public housing complexes. "NYCHA's...
Brooklyn man cleared in murder case after nearly 25 years behind bars
A Brooklyn man who spent nearly 25 years behind bars for murder walked out of court a free man Tuesday, when a judge tossed his 1996 conviction. Christian Pacheco, 42,...
Straphanger who spewed racist slur in viral subway attack gets probation
A straphanger caught on viral video kicking and hurling a racial slur at a fellow passenger was sentenced Wednesday to just probation and a day of anger management class --...
Ex-Poly Prep student says she was sexually abused by tennis coach in 1980s
A former student at Brooklyn’s elite Poly Prep Country Day School has filed a lawsuit claiming that a tennis coach, who worked for the school as recently as last month,...
Photos of iconic Brooklyn pizza joint owner's bullet-riddled body shown to jurors
Jurors on Wednesday were shown autopsy photos of L&B Spumoni Gardens co-owner Louis Barbati's bullet-riddled body -- taken after he was gunned down in 2016 outside of his Dyker Heights...
Pimp who chopped up girlfriend skates on murder charges, is only convicted of homicide
The Brooklyn pimp who admitted to dismembering his prostitute girlfriend and keeping her head in his freezer was found guilty in her killing on Monday. Jurors in Brooklyn criminal court...
Foreman, other construction bosses charged in Brooklyn worker death
Prosecutors are holding a construction foreman, an engineer and a group of other defendants and companies responsible for the death last year of a worker on Brooklyn construction site who...
Widow of murdered Brooklyn pizza joint owner breaks down in court
The grief-stricken widow of slain L&B Spumoni Gardens co-owner Louis Barbati could barely hold it together Thursday when she took the stand at the trial of her husband's alleged murderer....
Man convicted by tainted NYPD cop Scarcella freed after 24 years behind bars
"This court does not find the testimony of the detective to be credible," Brooklyn Supreme Court Justice Dena Douglas said before ordering a new trial for Elisio DeLeon, who was...
Brooklyn man will have 1996 murder conviction tossed: lawyer
An inmate serving 25 years to life for murder who says he was convicted on a confession ginned up by disgraced former NYPD Detective Louis Scarcella is about to have...
'Sugar Bear' admits to chopping up girlfriend, but not killing her: lawyer
He's not a murderer -- he just had a severed head in his freezer. A Brooklyn pimp on trial for slaying his prostitute girlfriend and then butchering her body insists he...
Brooklyn man wrongfully convicted of murder freed after 26 years
A Brooklyn man who spent the past 26 years in prison for murder walked out of court a free man Thursday afternoon — after a witness in his case admitted...
Killer in bodega slay delays sentencing by denying past convictions
A perp with a long rap sheet who was convicted of killing an 80-year-old bodega owner may have found a novel way to delay his inevitable sentencing -- by denying...
'Grid Kid' killer John Giuca claims prosecutor hid evidence in new appeal
The convicted “Grid Kid killer” is taking another shot at clearing his name in the murder of a Connecticut college football star -- by renewing his argument that a lead...
Abel Cedeno found guilty in fatal stabbing of Bronx HS classmate
A Bronx judge didn’t buy a teen’s claim that he stabbed a classmate to death over constant bullying because he is gay — and found him guilty on all counts...