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A Queens woman is facing animal cruelty charges for allegedly tossing a dog down a trash compactor of an apartment building earlier this year all because she simply didn’t like the pooch, prosecutors say. Dominiqua Parrish, 29, and of Far Rockaway, was charged with attempted aggravated cruelty to animals, second-degree criminal mischief and overdriving, torturing […]
Continue ReadingPolice are searching for a man they say stole thousands of dollars from a Bronx home’s safe over the weekend. According to the NYPD, on Sunday, at about 6 p.m., a 34-year-old woman who returned to her residence on 206th Street and Rochambeau Avenue reported a theft. Police say that video surveillance found that on […]
Continue ReadingThe glorious weather around the tri-state the last several days is coming to an end as a storm system swirls toward the east, threatening widespread rain and possible storms for both Friday commutes, according to Storm Team 4. Spotty showers are expected Thursday evening, then become more widespread overnight. By Friday’s morning rush we may […]
Continue ReadingThe Chesapeake Bay was swamped by record rainfall last year. Across the vast watershed, streams swelled with churning water that picked up sediment and chemicals and rushed into the bay, one of the most vibrant and important ecosystems in the country. And oysters suffered. Watermen say they’ve been pulling up dead oysters when they fish […]
Continue ReadingThe 33-year-old man arrested in the hit-and-run crash that killed a New York college student in 2017 pleaded guilty to manslaughter and other crimes Thursday. Daniel Coppolo, of Deer Park, got into a fender bender with Adelphi University student Taranjit Parmar in Levittown in November that year. Prosecutors say the two pulled into a parking […]
Continue ReadingJoe Biden has hired Symone Sanders, a prominent African American political strategist, as a senior adviser to his newly launched presidential campaign. The move adds a younger, diverse voice to Biden’s cadre of top advisers, which has been dominated by older white men. It suggests Biden is seeking to broaden his appeal to a new […]
Continue ReadingA pair of legal groups sued the Federal Election Commission on Wednesday, seeking to compel the agency to enforce the law amid what they allege is mounting evidence that the National Rifle Association has engaged in “an elaborate scheme … to unlawfully coordinate with candidates it supports for federal office,” including with the 2016 presidential […]
Continue ReadingTen students at an Atlanta-area elementary school suffered non-life threatening injuries after being shot by a BB or pellet gun while on the playground. A statement from the DeKalb County School District says the shots fired Thursday at students of Wynbrooke Elementary Theme School in Stone Mountain “appear to have come from a position away […]
Continue ReadingEurope’s far-right political leaders campaigned Thursday in Prague, calling migration and Islam major threats to Europe as they sought to rally support ahead of the European Parliament elections next month. Marine Le Pen, leader of France’s far-right National Rally party and Geert Wilders, founder of the Dutch anti-Islam Party for Freedom, were the main draws […]
Continue ReadingRescuers launched a search for 21 missing Venezuelans on Thursday, after a boat sank in rough waters of the Caribbean Sea en route to the island of Trinidad, authorities said. The small craft left Venezuela a day earlier and overturned in the sea a short distance from land, Lt. Kerron Valere of the Trinidad and […]
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