A teenage girl in Queens, New York, has been accused of stabbing her brother to death during a fight over a cellular phone. On Friday afternoon, a fight broke out between Yocairis Diaz, 18, and Frank Fortuna, 20.  Neighbors said they could hear screams coming from the apartment. Police say that it is believed Yocairis ... read more »

Four boys have been accused of gang raping a 14-year-old girl in her home multiple times in June and attempting to rape a 12-year-old in the home. The 14-year-old testified today via closed circuit television that the four boys – three 13-year-olds and one 12-year-old – entered her Ramapo, New York, home and repeatedly raped ... read more »

State and city teachers unions are pushing New York Governor Andrew Cuomo to allow parents to see the evaluations of teachers, it was reported on 11 June. The evaluations would be available by appointment made with the school principle and delivered verbally. The parents would also be barred from taking notes on the evaluations or ... read more »

Just one day after the announcement made by DC Comics that one of their major characters would be coming out of the closet next month, Marvel Comics has upped the ante and announced that their first openly gay character, Northstar, will finally tie the knot with his longtime boyfriend. Marvel said Tuesday that Canadian character ... read more »

Homeland Security agents, working along side the NYPD, arrested Joshua Conde on Thursday on charges that he possessed and distributed child pornography. Conde, 26, worked in a Bronx daycare center as a teacher known as Bronx House for approximately one year, where he worked with children ages 5 through 12, Eyewitness News reports.  According to officials, Conde passed a background ... read more »

Barbara Lafleur of Saratoga Spring, NY, went on a nude stroll through two stores on Tuesday before she was picked up by the Saratoga County Sheriff’s Office. The 49-year-old woman’s first stop was Curtis Lumber.  Bob Eakin, the store’s manager who was not working at the time of the incident, said the woman asked a ... read more »

This week, Long Island, N.Y., resident Veronica Cirella, 31, plead not guilty to the murder of her 8-year-old disabled daughter following her indictment by a Nassau County Grand Jury. Prosecutors say that Veronica intentionally poisoned her daughter by feeding her M&Ms that contained traces of peanuts, which the child was allergic to.  Her daughter, Julie, was diagnosed with ... read more »

Police in Glens Falls, New York, say that a man that was being removed from a local bar for allegedly having sex in the smoking room nearly completely bit off a male bartender’s finger. The incident occurred at about 4 a.m. at the Daily Double at 59 South St. Fort Ann resident Ernest Vannier, 38, was being removed ... read more »

A minivan plummeted off a bridge near the Bronx Zoo in New York, killing family members from three generations. According to authorities, the van lost control on the Bronx River Parkway at around 12:30 p.m. on Sunday, crossed all lanes of traffic, then flipped over a railing before falling 150 feet into a rail yard. ... read more »

As a poster boy for missing kids everywhere, Adam Croote’s story was the textbook case for why public resources should be used to help more victimized children. Croote, a former abducted child himself, stood next to Bill Clinton in 1996 as the president signed an order requiring missing children posters to be hung in federal ... read more »

On May 25th, 1979, 6-year-old Etan Patz disappeared. The boy was supposed to have walked one block from his home in New York’s SoHo neighborhood to the bus stop; within that block the child vanished. Ten days ago police brought a cadaver dog into the SoHo basement and the dog apparently got a hit on ... read more »

Police say a woman burning photos of her ex-boyfriend caused the house fire that killed four of her children. Bobbie Kugler, 31, faces charges of fourth-degree arson and four counts of second-degree manslaughter after an investigation into the blaze in February of this year that took the lives of Gage Reavey, 14, Greg Kugler, 13, ... read more »

New York resident Chen Ling got an unlikely surprise when she took out her trash Saturday afternoon. On her way to the garbage drop, Ling discovered an abandoned baby boy lying in the lobby of her Brooklyn apartment. The infant, estimated to be between 2 and 3 months old, was nestled in a car seat ... read more »

Shamel Lawrence was relaxing while surfing Facebook at 3:30 AM on Thursday, February 23 when he heard desperate screams.   In alarm, he left his Queens, NY home only to notice a house around the corner up in smoke. Immediately on the scene, this former NYC cop, 26, arrived just as a mother, Sandra Goncalves was frantically ... read more »

A young 6-year-old boy was sleeping in a running car late Saturday night in Rochester, NY when it was stolen.  According to WAHM in Rochester, Phillip Owens, the boy’s father, left the boy unattended in a running car outside of a convenience shop when he stopped to get a drink.  Then, an unidentified man jumped ... read more »