Two men, ages 30 and 50, were found with gunshot wounds and were taken to the hospital, in critical condition, just after 6 pm. The 30-year-old, died from his wounds later saturday night, The 50 year old is still in critical condition. The shootings happened outside a restaurant on 2961...
Yesterday, April 2, 2026, around 6:40 in the morning, a woman died after being struck by an ambulance in Brooklyn. According to police, the woman was hit while attempting to cross the street at the intersection of Ocean Avenue and Avenue O in Midwood. Video recordings obtained from a nearby...
Yesterday, Wednesday, April 1, 2026, a baby in Brooklyn was struck with a stray bullet and killed in what police are calling a “gang-motivated” shooting. The incident took place in Brooklyn, near East Williamsburg, where two men on a moped apparently opened fire on a group of people on the...
2 pilots were killed when an Air Canada Express Jet collided with a fire truck while landing at the LaGuardia Airport in NY late on March 22nd. As a result, the airport was closed for hours before reopening on Monday. The Air Canada Flight 8646, operated by regional partner Jazz...
A Long Island grandmother is now left mourning the loss of her fiance, 61-year-old Joseph Falvo, after her 18-year-old grandson Noel Bermudez-Chin unleashed a fierce attack on him. The young adult boy threw boiling hot water on him while he was asleep before stabbing him multiple times leading to his...
In recent weeks, the country has been introduced to a new variant strain of COVID-19, officially named variant BA 3.2. The variant has been nicknamed ‘Cicada,’ and is an offshoot from the BA 3 variant strain of COVID that has not been widely circulated in close to four years. The...
On the morning of Friday, March 27, a firehouse in Bedford Park caught on fire, injuring at least 14 firefighters. Firefighters reported receiving a call at 6 am for a report of a fire at 2928 Briggs Ave, which is a two-story firehouse. There was a fire on both floors...
Yesterday, March 25, 2026, New Jersey got its first new fire tower in nearly 80 years. The tower is located in Jackson Township in northeastern NJ and provides wildfire protection for Monmouth and Ocean Counties. Named in honor of its proximity to East Veterans Highway, Veterans Fire Tower was also...
In March of 2026, New York City began to place new rules regarding the usage of AI within the city’s public schools. These rules affect both the students and teachers, and were framed using a “traffic light” format. The rules are preliminary as of now, and will go through a...
New York City was met with a horrific scene as a plane crashed into a fire truck on March 22, 2026. The truck was headed to examine another plane after reports of it having an alleged “odor” when it collided with the Air Canada flight AC8646. The destructive collision cost...
On Monday, March 23, at about 11 A.M., about 1,000 professors at New York University officially went on strike. They began picketing outside the John A. Paulson Building at NYU. The strikes are due to failed negotiations between the faculty’s union, Contract Faculty United, and NYU administrators. Initially, the deadline...
Last night, March 19, 2026, police were called to a high foot-traffic area near the Apollo Theater in Harlem, after receiving reports of a man driving a red Hyundai Tucson who lost control of his vehicle and crashed multiple times. The event occurred around 8:05 pm, and police were quick...
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