A Brooklyn woman whose malnourished 4-year-old daughter was found dead in their apartment was slapped with assault charges yesterday after bruises covering the girl's body were found to contradict her claim that the child had suffered them... Read Full Story
What's he smoking? A Brooklyn man claims he cut his mouth on a nail lodged inside a cigar. Stogie smoker Anthony Raimondi says that two years ago, he...
Police are hunting a chain-snatching crook who has mugged several elderly Brooklyn women this summer in broad daylight -- including one brazen attack in which...
Four members of a Jewish volunteer patrol were shot during a tussle with a suspected pervert in Brooklyn last night, police said. "I tackled him and as we were falling to the ground, he started shooting all over the place," said...
An escalating turf war between bloodthirsty street gangs nearly claimed the life of a 10-year-old Brooklyn boy who was hit by a bullet that flew through his...
A shockingly malnourished 4-year-old Brooklyn girl weighed just 15 pounds when she was found dead yesterday by her mother in their filthy home -- and there was evidence she'd previously been tied to a bed with twine, cops said....
A former banker for Citigroup says that she was canned because of her age after she went on maternity leave, according to a filing in Brooklyn Civil Court....
One down -- eight to go. Firefighters yesterday brought an apparently dead Brooklyn cat back to life after hooking it up to an oxygen mask. The smoke...
The Brooklyn girl whose life was tragically cut short when a cop allegedly ignored her frantic mom's pleas for help was laid to rest yesterday at a funeral attended by hundreds of mourners -- all dressed in white. Briana Ojeda, 11...
The mattress police really will come after you if you don't have those tags on your bedding. Just ask Brooklyn Sleep Products of South Williamsburg. Federal authorities yesterday requested that a judge shut down the company...
A 10-year-old boy watching television in his Brooklyn home last night was hit twice by stray bullets from a gang shootout, cops and witnesses said. Khalel...
There's a secret ingredient in New York's tasty water supply -- tiny crustaceans that are nearly invisible to the naked eye. Called copepods, the creatures --cousins to shrimp -- are found in fresh water, scientists say. New...
With tropical storm season in full swing and Hurricane Earl soon approaching, Rep. Anthony Weiner (D – Queens and Brooklyn) today called on the U.S. Army Corps...
A star soccer player for the St. Lucia national team was senselessly shot dead early yesterday in Crown Heights just hours after booting the winning goal to send his squad to the championship. A single bullet ripped through...
A sobbing father said it was definitely an NYPD cop who fatally delayed his 11-year-old asthmatic daughter's desperate dash to a hospital -- but police cast doubt on the grieving family's claims. Michael Ojeda said yesterday his...
They call him "Detective X." His work as an undercover NYPD cop is so stellar -- including getting 153 illegal guns off Brooklyn streets in one year -- that...
A firefighter carrying a tenant to safety suffered first-degree facial burns early yesterday as a Brooklyn brownstone erupted in a fire that the FDNY suspects...
An 11-year-old Brooklyn girl died after her mom was detained by a man in uniform as she tried desperately to rush her to a hospital. "She was my angel. I cannot believe my baby is gone," the devastated mother, Carmen Ojeda, said...
A Brooklyn bank was robbed at gunpoint this afternoon by two men, who fired their weapons before they carjacked a vehicle, police and witnesses said. The...
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Alan Balkan can imagine the possibilities. He can see his quarterback Jordan Paul enjoying a memorable senior season, shredding defenses apart. He can picture his top wideout, 6-foot-4 Terrence Chillious, bettering the eight touchdown passes he... 7:45 AM
When a team starts two freshman and two sophomores on a varsity soccer team, that squad is usually in rebuilding mode with a long season ahead of them. Xaverian coach Carlos Jaguande is facing that predicament, but he’s not overly concerned. “I’m...
Rich Tighe stopped short of making any predictions, but the Sheepshead Bay boys soccer coach fully expects this year to be different. Last season’s...
There is a buzz about Boys & Girls this preseason. The Kangaroos are expected to be greatly improved, returning the core of a team that went just 2-7 last season. But coach Barry O’Connor is more cautious. “People have said good things before and...
Everywhere he looks, Rashid Armand sees new faces – on offense, defense and special teams. Before training camp, he needed a media guide to get to know his new teammates. But Armand doesn’t want any sympathy, even if he is the lone returning...
Paul Klyap didn’t want to move Franklin D. Roosevelt up to the City Championship division because of what the Cougars did last year, their first in the...
School has come early in a sense for Peter Schmidt-Nowara and his Brooklyn Tech girls soccer team. It is the former Manhattan Center boys coach's first season at the helm, taking over for Thomas Nguyen. There has been a learning curve for both...
When Chris Vega took over as the Lincoln boys soccer coach three years ago, he had to start recruiting – within the Coney Island school. “There were a lot of players in the school, but not a lot came out for the team,” he said. Aided by his...
Automotive’s first varsity season could have easily been its last. Four years ago, the Pistons went 0-10 in their debut and scored a total of one touchdown the entire season. Coach Haseeb Khawaja, the program’s architect, had more than a few doubts....
Mike Lightfoot was excited to start his seventh season as an assistant coach at Grand Street Campus a few months ago when something completely unexpected happened. Head coach Ed Gazzillo, who started the program in 1999, had to step down after...
Danny Landberg will never forget the day three years ago when Bryant Hardy, one of his players at Erasmus Hall, came to him after school. Hardy’s best friends and teammates – Wayne Morgan and Shaquell Jackson – were in trouble. They were going to...
Taylor Ford is about doing whatever it takes. No task or play is too small for the Nazareth forward as long as it aides in her squad coming out on the winning end of the scoreboard. Ford is tenacious on the boards, dives on the floor and finishes...
Xaverian is daring to dream big. Coach Joe DeSiena recently asked his team what their goal for the season was and the answer was unanimous and unwavering. “Everyone in our meeting said championship because we know we can make it to the [AAA]...
Sam Retas was in attack mode, her game flowing as easily as the points were coming. The Bishop Kearney senior was set to drive along the left side later in the second half when Red Hook Lady Ravens and Tigers coach Rocco Sellitto called timeout....
By the end of last season, Canarsie’s once-proud football program was thought to be in decline. The Chiefs lost four straight to close the year, missed the playoffs for just the fifth time in 20 years under coach Mike Camardese, and graduated 23...
It wasn’t much, but it was home for Ryan Patrick Woerner. The Breezy Point native spent nearly a week of his life during March sleeping on the couch in the Cornell men’s basketball office and enjoying its great DVD collection. “It allowed me to...
The James Madison football team will be virtually unrecognizable from the one that went 2-16 the last two seasons. The players are new, the system on...
Steve Basile was asked to name his stars, the players that might strike fear into the rest of the city. The Midwood football coach paused. “This year...
Andrew Vital’s junior season could hardly be described as a disappointment. The signal-caller led Lincoln to a 6-3 record – five more wins than the Railsplitters amassed the previous season – and a PSAL City Championship division quarterfinal...
Grady is the only team that went winless last year in the PSAL City Championship division yet remained up at the highest level. There’s good reason for...
The band, which is celebrating its 30th anniversary, plays t...
With tropical storm season in full swing and Hurricane Earl soon approaching, Rep. Anthony Weiner...
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