The daughter of the Elmhurst man killed when he was pushed onto the subway tracks of a Midtown station in December is suing the MTA, according to reports. Ki Suck Han’s 20-year-old daughter, Ashley, filed suit in Manhattan Supreme Court yesterday. Han, 58, was struck by a Brooklyn bound “R” train on December 3 at [...]
The early and rapid spread of this year’s flu season has had deadly consequences. According to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the flu has reached epidemic status, causing 7.3 percent of deaths last week. The CDC’s epidemic threshold is marked at 7.2 percent. Every region of the United States — excluding [...]
A man was killed after being pushed in front of an approaching No. 7 train in Sunnyside last night, the second incident of its kind in New York City this month. Sunando Sen was pushed as the Flushing-bound train approached the 40th Street station at approximately 8 p.m. As the train pulled into the station, the [...]
A Long Island teen leaped to his death off the Whitestone Bridge Thursday, police said. Eric Doll, 19, of Merrick, died on November 15, when he jumped off the middle of the Whitestone Bridge shortly before 3 p.m., authorities said. “My son was my only child. I loved him,” his mother told The Courier. “My [...]
A Flushing man died after a tree crashed into his home Monday night, police said, as earth-shattering Sandy continued to barrel through the city. The storm pillaged the East Coast on Monday, October 29, claiming the life of 29-year-old Tony Laino at approximately 7 p.m. inside his 47-34 166th Street home, cops said. Laino was [...]
The 25-year-old South Asian woman whose body was found floating in Little Bay last week may have taken her own life, trying to escape an arranged marriage, according to sources close to the case. Rini Shajan of Elmont was discovered dead on the surface of Little Bay near Fort Totten the morning of August 7, [...]
The family of a 71-year-old College Point woman who allegedly died of West Nile virus said they sway between incredible sadness and extreme anger at the city. “This could have been prevented. They should have sprayed. They shouldn’t wait for a fatality to happen,” said Francis Coppola, 50. He said his mother, Maria Coppola, was [...]
His friends called him “the kid with the golden heart.” Zena Basin called him son. A week after her son Joshua’s senseless death, Zena still expects him to walk through the door of their Howard Beach home. The 20 year old was killed during an altercation on a Manhattan-bound “L” train. The assailant, now identified [...]
DA: Mother Will Not Be Charged In Son’s Bathtub Drowning [NY1]
Yankees GM calls AL East ‘a toss-up’ [New York Post]
Manhattan Councilman Sets Sights On 2013 Comptroller’s Race [NY1]
MTA chief says Bloomberg’s dream of extending No. 7 train to NJ is ‘not going to happen’ [New York Post]
Chase Banking Glitch Causes Double Charges On Accounts [NY1]
One dead, two injured in Brooklyn construction collapse [New York Post]
Four more US soldiers face court martial over alleged hazing death of New York GI Four more US soldiers are facing a possible court martial over the alleged hazing death in Afghanistan of a 19-year-old fellow serviceman of Chinese descent. The recommendation from military investigators follows a preliminary hearing at Kandahar Air Field on Monday. Seven [...]
