A bloody gang war on Staten Island has claimed the lives of four men in just the past month – and investigators are worried that innocent blood could be spilled next.
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The Staten Island couple mowed down by a hit-and-run driver as they walked to a Thanksgiving eve Mass were praised by their church Sunday as “very good people.”
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A former city electrical contractor walked out of a Manhattan court all smiles Monday after a judge gave him just three months in jail for bribing a corrupt union boss.
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Santo Petrocelli, Sr., the former owner and chairman of Petrocelli Electric Company, based in Queens, New York, was sentenced to three months in prison for making tens of thousands of dollars worth of payments to Brian McLaughlin, a former Business Representative of Local 3 of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, in violation of federal labor law.
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A Queens man shot for his TV set said Saturday the blundering bandits pumped a bullet in his gut when he was slow to get on the floor – because he’s got bad knees.
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A jailbird was put back in the cage Saturday night after trying to fly free from a Manhattan precinct, sources said.
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It was after sundown on Christmas Day 1895, and Lee Shelton was prowling the St. Louis tenderloin, puttin’ on the dog. At age 31, Shelton was a familiar gadabout in the Deep Morgan, the downtown vice district where he lived, worked and played. It was also where he would kill.
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A man chased his wife and two young sons down a Paterson, N.J., street Saturday, shooting them and killing one of the boys before he was fatally shot by an off-duty cop, police and witnesses said.
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The city’s street gangs are becoming tweet gangs. Manhattan’s young thugs have turned to Twitter, and the cops who track them are fast behind, the Daily News has learned.
A 16-year-old girl was shot in the stomach during an argument between two groups of teens at a Bronx house party early Saturday, cops and witnesses said.
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