The driver charged with running from a horrific crash that killed one teen and injured seven others apologized and blamed the Staten Island carnage on mechanical failure.
Telecom giant Verizon is under growing pressure to return $800,000 in profits allegedly obtained through accused Education Department swindler Willard Lanham.
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Crime in the city’s subways has jumped about 17% – mostly due to a spike in thefts of cell phones, iPods and other gadgets. Most victims are passengers standing near the doors of subway cars. Thieves, generally lurking on the platforms, reach in and grab electronics from unsuspecting straphangers just as the doors close, police said.
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Cops are looking for a brazen bandit who yanked an elderly man out of an East Harlem store by his neck trying to snatched his necklace, cops said.
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ONE MAN was dead and several others were wounded in a horrific car crash on Staten Island last night, police and witnesses said.
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A would-be rapist who’s stalked Brooklyn since March has struck again, grabbing a woman on a Park Slope streetcorner, the Daily News has learned.
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A Brooklyn parolee had a MetroCard in his pocket when he got caught jumping a turnstile — an arrest that sent him back behind bars on a $5,000 bond.
The California dad who flung his 7-year-old son off a sightseeing boat was simply roughhousing and regrets his “stupid” judgment, his girlfriend told the Daily News.
A Brooklyn judge has rejected a proposed $2 million bail package for a reputed Colombo crime associate charged with two gangland murders and the shakedown of a pizzeria.
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Two littel girls who were playing in the street were wounded – one critically – when a gunman opened fire Monday night on a crowd in the Bronx, cops and witnesses said.
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