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A woman stabbed a 16-year-old boy in an alleged unprovoked attack on a southbound MTA Q25 bus on Parsons Boulevard on Tuesday, Dec. 16. The boy was riding in the bus in front of 82-74 Parson Blvd. at 3:40 p.m., when a stranger approached him and allegedly stabbed him once in the abdomen, police said. The suspect...

Our children are stabbing each other on our playgrounds. Violent mentally ill people are driving knives into strangers for the color of their skin or the faith they keep. New Yorkers are waking up every morning knowing that an encounter on the subway, in a bodega line or walking home from school could end in...

NEWARK, NJ — Police are seeking the public’s help in locating a woman wanted for questioning in connection with a shooting that occurred Sunday. Takisha S. Curry, 41, of Newark, is being sought by detectives investigating the incident. At approximately 7:44 p.m., police responded to the 300 block...

The city's medical examiner will offer free genetic screening to at-risk family members of people who die suddenly and unexpectedly from disease.

The attacker who stabbed a middle schooler at a Brooklyn playground and left him in critical condition was just 12-years-old, police said, as they charged the youngster Friday with attempted murder as a juvenile. The pre-teen suspect allegedly knifed fellow 12-year-old Khayell Dupree in the chest inside Betsy Head...

Prosecutors say 23-year-old Ronald Spektor of Sheepshead Bay ripped off his victims over several years through the huge phishing and social engineering scheme.

QUEENS, N.Y. – Police have identified the human remains discovered this summer near the Jackie Robinson Parkway as belonging to 27-year-old Christina G. Purdie of Brooklyn, as investigators continue to…

A teenage girl has died after falling from the Chapin School in New York City. On Wednesday, Dec. 17, police responded to a 911 call at the school, located at 100 East End Avenue, according to the New York Police Department. “Upon arrival, officers observed a 14-year-old female at the above location with injuries...