TODAY’S FORECAST Thursday: Sunny, with a high near 63. West wind 9 to 13 mph. Thursday night: Mostly clear, with a low around 52. Southwest wind around 8 mph. EVENT of the DAY: The Mutations Devil Science Theater is an interactive event where the audience plays drinking games and makes fun of terrible movies while being egged on [...]
The drug-dealing doings of two thugs were blown when officials sniffed out the pair’s operation, uncovering 18 pounds of cocaine from their Jackson Heights stash house. According to the office of the Special Narcotics Prosecutor (SNP), Wilmar Florez-Jimenez, 30, of Queens and Alvaro Montoya, 51, of Elizabeth, New Jersey were arrested on May 14 and [...]
Eight Kilos Of Cocaine Seized In Jackson Heights House Two men were arrested after more than eight kilograms of cocaine were seized from a home in Jackson Heights, Queens last month. Officials say the drugs were found in an apartment on 81st Street month during an investigation by state police. Read more: [NY1] Small Mexican [...]
A large-scale bust landed 45 people – alleged members of two drug organizations operating in southeast Queens – in jail on drug, weapons and other charges. The two organizations were allegedly being run by a set of the Bloods street gang known as the “South Side Bloods” and by James “Wall” Corley, an original member [...]
Two police officers collared a Connecticut man who was driving in Queens Sunday with his 13-year-old son — and about $70,000 worth of cocaine inside his car, cops said. Police officers Vincent Siraco and Michael Sardone were on foot patrol on Jamaica Avenue near 165th Street in Jamaica at about 1:55 p.m. when they noticed [...]
Whitney Houston’s death was ‘complicated by chronic cocaine use and heart disease,’ coroner’s office says [Daily News]
Cheating Manhattan corporate lawyer exposed after ‘assault’ on gal pal [New York Post]
Despite differences, devout Tebow and X-rated Ryan share passion for winning [New York Post]
Kim Kardashian flour-bombed at LA promo event for perfume line [New York Post]
Labor-loving Quinn will pass wage [New York Post]
Early-morning fire damages Manhattan home; one firefighter injured [New York Post]
2 bodies found on eastern Long Island, 1 in area where corpse discovered last month [Daily News]
Staten Island stabbing suspect to be arraigned today on murder charges [New York Post]
Whitney Houston funeral: mourners pay tribute to legendary singer at Newark church The silver casket bearing Whitney Houston glistened Saturday inside her old Newark church, where a star-studded crowd bid farewell to the departed diva with the divine voice. “What becomes of our broken hearts?” asked her “Bodyguard” co-star Kevin Costner in a moving memorial. [...]
Feds arrest NY lawmaker on new bribery charges Less than three weeks after being acquitted in a federal corruption case, a New York state lawmaker was arrested Tuesday on new charges that he sought and accepted bribes from a carnival promoter and two undercover FBI agents posing as real estate developers. William Boyland Jr., a [...]
Activist Patricia Dolan killed crossing Hillside Avenue Patricia Dolan, longtime Community Board 8 member, president of the Queens Civic Congress, Kew Gardens Hills Civic Association and the founder of the Flushing Meadows-Corona Park Conservancy, was struck and killed as she crossed Hillside Avenue on Tuesday, November 15. Police say Dolan, 72, was crossing the thoroughfare near [...]
Barbara Sheehan taken into custody on gun conviction Barbara Sheehan may have dodged a bullet (pun very much intended) by beating the murder charge, but she couldn’t get around the gun charge. Yesterday afternoon Sheehan reported to Queens Supreme Court where she was taken into custody for criminal gun possession, a charge in which she [...]
