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A former Palisades Park police captain is charged with assault after an alleged choking incident, bringing renewed attention to his troubled career in law enforcement.

The 36-year-old was standing on West 140th Street across the street from New Mount Zion Baptist Church on Saturday around 9:30 a.m.

Yonkers ’ council has voted to rename the intersection of School Street and Brooke Street as "Earl DMX Simmons Way," cementing DMX' s bond with the community. A public hearing on May 27 drew residents and officials together in support of the measure, and the council's subsequent vote went through without a single objec

The brutality at Delaney Hall has hit the boiling point. Immigrants held at the privately run Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention center in Newark are conducting a hunger strike to protest their unconstitutional incarceration and the conditions in the facility (putrid water, filthy toilets, rotten food

BELLEVILLE, N.J. — Belleville police are asking residents to help identify a “suspicious individual” discovered lingering in the department’s parking lot, though this suspect comes with whiskers, paws and a strong demand for treats. In a lighthearted social media post Thursday, the Belleville Police Department shared p

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — New York City will launch a pilot program requiring chronic speeding violators to install devices in their vehicles that prevent them from exceeding posted speed limits thanks to a new state law. Gov. Kathy Hochul’s FY2027 budget includes a section devoted to safeguarding New York’s...

Newark, NJ — A tense standoff outside the Delaney Hall immigration detention facility in Newark escalated Friday night, prompting New Jersey State Police to clear an area around the facility after officials reported dangerous confrontations involving a small group of protesters and law enforcement. According to a state

Big L’s final hours remain one of the most haunting stories in New York hip-hop because his death came at the exact moment when his legend was beginning to outgrow Harlem. Born Lamont Coleman, the 24-year-old MC had already earned a reputation as one of rap’s sharpest punchline writers, but he was still standing at the

They brought drums and bullhorns, gas masks and cameras. They carried protest signs, American flags and body armor. The chaos continued Saturday at Delaney Hall as ICE protestors and supporters traded heated verbal salvos in Newark while state troopers looked on. The demonstrators surrounded the immigration detention c

A Queens jeweler is now a convicted felon after a luxury-watch deal went so bad it ended with threats, a seized Mercedes SUV and a Brooklyn man dead. A federal jury in Brooklyn on Wednesday found 45-year-old Shlomo Patchiav guilty of taking part in an extortion conspiracy tied to the disappearance and death of Shehroz