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A 29-year-old NYPD sergeant pretended to be an ICE agent as part of a twisted revenge plot against a woman who rebuffed him, according to law-enforcement sources Tuesday. Sgt. Atickul Islam, who lives at home with his father and brother, met the woman online and made romantic overtures before she rejected him,...

A 31-year-old man was riddled with bullets in a deadly early Monday burst of violence inside an illegal Brooklyn nightclub, cops and sources said. Giovanni Rivera was fatally blasted multiple times in the torso and back around 5 a.m. in the shady storefront night spot on Third Avenue near 50th Street in Sunset Park,...

Authorities are investigating the death this weekend of a Jersey City man incarcerated at Hudson County Correctional Center. According to an email distributed among county officials reviewed by the Jersey City Times, at the time of his death, the 32-year-old man was being held on two counts of Aggravated Assault on a...

TRIGGER WARNING: This post contains information about suicide, which may be triggering to some. A New York City community is mourning the shocking loss of a teenage boy. The teen attended Regis High School, located on Manhattan’s Upper East Side. The all-boys Catholic school prides itself on being tuition-free,...

A former Essex County sheriff’s officer charged in a drunken, three-vehicle crash that left eight people hurt three years ago entered a plea agreement on Friday that will spare him jail time. Michael Johnson, 38, was off duty and behind the wheel of a Jeep Cherokee around 11:20 p.m....

New York City's Department of Sanitation wants to remind you they're willing to pay you money to out illegal dumpers, and with a summons uptick ahead of the holidays, they're hoping for some takers. With illegal dumping summonses up more than 20 percent in the last fiscal year, the department...

Dumont's former mayor and Jersey City police sergeant, Andrew LaBruno, has been arrested for juvenile sex assault charges, authorities confirmed. LaBruno, who earlier this month lost his bid for state assembly, began chatting with the juvenile, a complete stranger, on a social media app and made arrangements to meet,...

NEW YORK (PIX11) — Some New York City Public School students will get an early start to their weekends heading into Thanksgiving week. Students of certain schools will be dismissed three hours early for afternoon parent-teacher conferences on Friday. High schools, K-12 and 6-12 schools will be dismissing students...

Rebecca Bailin pays $32,000 a year for her five-month-old's all-day child care in New York City . That's higher than the national average, but not unusual. Many parents in the city and in other parts of the country can relate, as Care.com's 2025 Cost of Care Report found many parents spend 22% of their household...

Terrence told jail officials again and again that he’d been raped — five times, he said, over the course of multiple stints in city custody. He filed reports, flagged officers and in two instances, pointed to video that seemed to back him up, including one in which a fellow male detainee is seen leaving the […] The...