Police have shared details about a rash of iPhone and Blackberry thefts on Brooklyn’s hippest streets. Victims had their phones snatched from behind as they walk down the street. The thieves have been particularly difficult [...]
Thursday, December 2, 2010
Prosecutors in Brooklyn say a construction company agreed to pay $20 million to resolve an investigation that claimed the company falsely reported hiring minority subcontractors on several New York City projects. The Schiavone Construction Company [...]
Thursday, December 2, 2010
After 30 years on the run, a man captured hiding in Brooklyn has pleaded not guilty to murder. Lorenzo Carter, 51, is charged in a shooting that took place on March 30, 1980, near his [...]
Thursday, December 2, 2010
A Brooklyn man was charged with three counts of fraud linked to a $1.5 million investment he received to buy hotels. Robert E. McDonald allegedly convinced an unnamed individual who had already invested in and [...]
Tuesday, November 16, 2010
One advocacy group is promoting gun ownership among bodega workers but arab workers are divided over its benefits, reports New America Media. With 15 murders in the last 20 months in Crown Heights, Mohammed Koko [...]
Wednesday, November 10, 2010
Police Commissioner Raymond Kelley hailed as a hero the Park Slope shopkeeper who fended off a robber with a plastic trash can. Mohammed Esa was behind the counter at New Star Tobacco last Wednesday around [...]
Wednesday, November 10, 2010
Brooklyn was named the city with the fourth largest gains in employment, said a new report by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. Employment grew 1.4 percent in the first quarter of 2010. A lot [...]
Wednesday, November 10, 2010
By Alex Gecan Bedlam erupted in a Kings County courtroom this afternoon, drowning out the last of three guilty verdicts against Jarelle Washington. Washington’s relatives and friends, some of them too hysterical to be understood, [...]
Tuesday, November 9, 2010
By Lynn La Police arrested a suspect linked to a fatal shooting Tuesday morning when he returned to the scene of the murder and swooped underneath crime scene tape in attempt to sneak by officers, [...]
Tuesday, November 9, 2010
According to police, Jose Miguel Serrano-Munoz, 23, was shot multiple times in the wee hours of Monday, Nov. 8, 2010 in Gravesend. Serrano-Munoz was shot in front of a donut shop at 1503 Avenue U. [...]
Thursday, December 2, 2010
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