Crime and Public Safety

Former NYPD head Thomas Donlon says shoddy evidence storage jeopardizes criminal cases

Soon after he was named police commissioner by Mayor Adams, Thomas Donlon made it a priority to examine the evidence storage practices in NYPD ...

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Conn. man gets 65 years for killing girlfriend; baby daughter still missing

The search for a baby missing since 2019 continued on in Connecticut, the day after her father was sentenced to 65 years behind bars ...

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Ex-Army sergeant sentenced to 12 years for scalding 2-month-old son

A former U.S. Army sergeant has been sentenced to 12 years in prison, followed by four years of supervised release, after scalding his 2-month-old ...

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Man busted for random subway stabbing slashed own mom days before: prosecutors

The man busted for knifing a dozing 56-year-old Manhattan subway rider in the head during an unprovoked, blood-soaked attack had just been arrested for ...

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Gunman whose stray bullets killed Brooklyn mom and her pit bull gets 25 years

A gunman whose stray bullets killed a Brooklyn mother of four and her pet pit bull will spend 25 years behind bars after pleading ...

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Ex-MLB pitcher Dan Serafini convicted of murdering father-in-law

Former MLB pitcher Dan Serafini was convicted Monday of murdering his father-in-law and attempting to murder his mother-in-law in 2021. Serafini, 51, fatally shot ...

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‘Scandal’ star Columbus Short’s wife claims he choked her, abused her for years

Actor Columbus Short and his wife, Aida Abramyan , are embroiled in a nasty he-said, she-said domestic violence legal battle. After the former “ ...

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UC Berkeley professor shot dead in broad daylight in Greece

A professor at the University of California, Berkeley was killed after being shot multiple times in broad daylight in the outskirts of Athens, Greece, ...

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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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