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At 13, Rashanna James-Frison turned to poetry to cope with the loss of her parents and the challenges she faced growing up in Newark and in the world beyond. Like keeping a journal, painting or other fine arts, writing poetry is an instinctive response that experts say children and teens use to channel grief, longing...

Jeffrey Sutton lifts his ravaged left arm and studies the scars etched into his brown skin — silent reminders of the damage wrought by a half-dozen hollow-point bullets fired by Bloomfield police. Sutton’s no angel. He’ll be the first to tell you about his roguish life, inglorious mistakes, and...

A 36-year-old man was discovered dead inside of his car Sunday night hours after his parents told police they received calls from someone claiming to have kidnapped the man for a $10,000 ransom, NYPD officials said. The man was found in Queens after his parents walked into the 106th Precinct...

At 9:46 p.m., a Nissan Pathfinder was traveling north on Mount Prosect Avenue when it turned left into 696 Prospect Ave. and was struck by an off-road motorcycle traveling south on Mount Prospect Avenue, the Essex County Prosecutor's Office said. The motorcyclist was taken to University Hospital where he was...

A Bronx, NY woman has died after being brutally attacked by her hospital roommate, according to NYPD. Cynthia Vann, 55, was reportedly undergoing liver treatment at Lincoln Hospital in Mott Haven when she was assaulted in her sleep on Sept. 10. The attack left her with severe head injuries, requiring emergency...

NYPD's 6th precinct in Greenwich Village Delano Hill of Suwanee, Georgia, allegedly left a bottle that he claimed had contained chlorine gas. On the bottle was a confession to a stabbing back in Georgia. [ more › ]

Six pint-sized perps – two of them only 13 – were busted in a violent knifepoint robbery of a straphanger inside a Midtown subway station early Tuesday, cops and sources said. The three boys and three girls approached the 35-year-old victim, a stranger, on the N/R/W train platform at Fifth Avenue/59th Street around...

A man was viciously beaten to death outside a subway station in downtown Brooklyn Tuesday afternoon — and his attacker was caught hours later by transit cops in Times Square, according to police and sources. The battered victim was unconscious and unresponsive with severe injuries across his face and body when cops...

That vision took root back in kindergarten for Roger León, when a teacher described the role of a superintendent to the class.

A man riding a stolen off-road motorcycle was killed Monday in a crash in Newark, the Essex County Prosecutor’s Office said. The crash occurred on Mount Prospect Avenue at about 9:45 p.m., authorities said. Investigators found that a 2006 Nissan Pathfinder traveling north attempted to turn left into 696...