Crime and Public Safety

Man dozing on Manhattan train wakes up, argues with straphanger, gets stabbed in the head

A man dozing aboard a Manhattan subway train early Monday morning woke up to a nightmare — a belligerent straphanger who ended up stabbing ...

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LI cops fatally shoot knife-wielding man near wounded victim

Long Island police officers fatally shot a man who was holding a knife and threatening an already wounded man, authorities said Sunday. Cops said ...

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Friends mourn mugging suspect, 15, on e-bike fleeing NYPD cops struck by hit-run driver

Friends and family were struggling Monday to understand the chain of events that ended with the death of a 15-year-old boy struck by an ...

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NYC Traffic Enforcement Agents want to get peace officer status

They wear the same patch, but when they’re assaulted on the street, the differences between NYPD cops and Traffic Enforcement Agents become abundantly clear, ...

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Multi-car crash in the Bronx kills 71-year-old woman, injures seven others

A 79-year-old driver crashed into two cars in the Bronx before hitting a light pole — killing his passenger and injuring himself and six ...

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Woman, 23, slashed in face in fight over Queens parking spot

A 23-year-old woman was slashed in the face during a fight over a parking spot in Queens, police said Friday. Cops released an image ...

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Double stabbing bloodies Bronx block where teen died days earlier

Police said Thursday that two males were hospitalized during a knife fight in broad daylight on a run-down Bronx block where a teenager had ...

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Three people wounded in shooting at Manhattan cookout

Authorities reported Thursday night that three people—two men and a woman—were injured in a gunshot at a picnic in front of a Manhattan apartment ...

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‘Tiger King’ star Doc Antle sentenced to prison for animal trafficking, money laundering

Another star of Tiger King, a popular documentary series on Netflix, is going to prison. Nearly two years after entering a guilty plea to ...

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Death of missing Maine paddleboarder now considered murder

According to Maine State Police, the death of a woman whose corpse was discovered last week after she vanished while paddleboarding in Maine is ...

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