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New York City has launched a new pilot program that provides a direct connection to selected public school buildings to 911 dispatchers in hopes it will provide more effort towards improving the emergency response times. Mayor Eric Adams and city officials announced this on Monday, describing it as the first...
June Lockhart, the actress best known for playing television’s mother in “Lassie” and “Lost in Space,” has died at the age of 100. Lyle Gregory, family spokesperson and a friend of 40 years, confirmed her death in Santa Monica. “She was very happy up until the very end, reading the...
A construction worker died Thursday morning after falling more than 50 feet at a Manhattan job site. The incident happened just before 9 a.m. on the west side of Manhattan which is near 12th Avenue and 30th Street in the area of the Hudson Yards development. The worker was at...
Two NYPD officers are being celebrated for their heroic actions after saving a 10-month-old baby boy who had stopped breathing in his home in the Queens earlier this month. On October 10 at around 4:40 p.m., officers answered a 911 call that reported a baby choking. Upon arriving at the...
Police have arrested 30-year-old Assa Diawara, who is now facing charges of abandoning a child and endangering the child’s welfare. A newborn baby girl was found abandoned Monday morning inside Penn Station. The infant, wrapped in a blanket, was discovered around 9:30 a.m. on a subway platform near the 34th...
A former New York state correction officer has been found guilty of murdering inmate Robert Brooks in 2023 while two other officers were cleared of all charges. David Kingsley was convicted Monday of second-degree murder and first-degree manslaughter. Prosecutors said Kingsley and several other guards beat Brooks, who was handcuffed...
A new report shows that over 154,000 public school students in New York City lacked stable housing at some point during the 2024-2025 school year, a record high. This means that nearly one in every seven students in the city’s public school system was homeless. The nonprofit Advocates for Children...
A southbound 4 train in the Bronx experienced a scary incident Sunday evening when two cars of the train detached while in motion which forced an emergency evacuation. The situation happened at around 5:15 p.m. between the 161st Street and 149th Street-Grand Concourse stations. The Metropolitan Transportation Authority thankfully confirmed...
Paul Daniel “Ace” Frehley, founding guitarist and one of the signature faces of the rock band KISS, died Thursday at the age of 74, his family announced. Frehley passed away at home in Morristown, New Jersey, due to complications following a recent fall, according to his agent. His family said...
A parking garage in downtown White Plains partially collapsed on Wednesday morning, crushing multiple vehicles but luckily no one was injured. The incident happened just after 9 a.m. at the garage on Hale Avenue near South Broadway which is close to the Westchester One office tower. A part of the...
Prosecutors in New York are asking for more time to decide whether to bring a third trial in the Etan Patz murder case. In July 2025, the 2nd U.S Circuit Court of Appeals overturned the 2017 conviction of Pedro Hernandez, ruling that the judge for that trial gave poor directions...
A 76-year-old woman named Lyudmila Braun died Sunday after a solar panel tore free from a rooftop structure during a nor’easter and struck her in Brooklyn. Police say the accident happened around 10:30 a.m. near Ocean Parkway and West Brighton Beach Avenue. According to the Department of Buildings, the panel...
