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The off-duty NYPD officer who allegedly shot her ex-girlfriend and killed the ex-‘s new lover when she found them together is a patrol cop who worked midnights and whose annual evaluations exceeded expectations, a senior department official said.

Character actor Michael K. Williams — famous for his role as Omar Little in the HBO series “The Wire” — was found dead in his Brooklyn apartment earlier this month.

Character actor Michael K. Williams — famous for his role as Omar Little in the HBO series “The Wire” — was found dead in his Brooklyn apartment earlier this month.

The jury of seven men and five women started to deliberate the 54-year-old singer’s case on Friday.

Mack is best known for her role as a young Superman’s close friend on the series “Smallville.”

One of the zookeepers featured on the Netflix documentary series “Tiger King” has been found dead in Brooklyn, police officials tell News 4 New York.

The Brooklyn native first rose to fame playing the notorious robber Omar Little, a robber who terrorized street-level drug dealers in the crime series “The Wire.”

The third week of the R. Kelly sex-trafficking trial in New York City saw more accusers, including a man for the first time, making more disturbing allegations

“Mutual aid” is when a community collectively provides for one another, often through food deliveries and crowdfunding, but in many other ways as well. Bed-Stuy Strong is one of more than 800 local networks that formed during the COVID-19 crisis.

In 2020, at least 800 local groups across the U.S. formed to provide mutual aid during the pandemic. Mutual aid, which is when a group of people collectively pool their resources to help those who need it, comes from a long tradition that includes immigrant groups in the U.S. in the early 20th century. One of the next generation of...

A prosecutor described sex abuse claims against R&B star R. Kelly Wednesday, saying the long-anticipated trial now underway is “about a predator” who used his fame to entice girls, boys and young women before dominating and controlling them physically, sexually and psychologically for at least three decades. “This case is not about a celebrity who likes to party a lot,” Assistant...

Failed New York state Senate candidate Daniel Christmann is among more than 500 people charged in the Jan. 6 Capitol riot by supporters of ex-President Donald Trump.

A unique Wu-Tang Clan album has been sold by the U.S. government, after pharma bro Martin Shkreli forfeited it as part of his 2017 federal criminal conviction.

Video posted to social media shows a delivery driver tampering with food that had been ordered by an NYPD officer — and now the driver could face charges.

Four Iranian intelligence agents and a co-conspirator living in the U.S. allegedly plotted to kidnap a journalist and human rights activist from Brooklyn after criticizing their country’s regime, according to federal charges announced Tuesday.

Fans of DMX will now have a place to go to remember the rapper’s legacy as one of hip-hop’s greatest icons with a mural and memorial in his honor.

TV actor Allison Mack, who played a key role in a scandal-ridden, cult-like upstate New York group, was sentenced to 3 years in prison Wednesday after pleading guilty to charges she manipulated women into becoming sex slaves for the group’s spiritual leader. Mack — best known for her role as a young Superman’s close friend on the series “Smallville” —…

Travelers often unknowingly violate local protocols. Experts say these are the worst tourist offenses they see on their home turfs.

A garbage bag allegedly full of pot that was flung off a Brooklyn rooftop in an apparent sale gone bad scattered onto the sidewalk, sending pedestrians scrambling to pick up marijuana earlier this month, police say.

An MTA bus slammed into a three-story building Monday afternoon causing injuries to 16 people and serious damage to the structure in Brooklyn, officials said. The crash happened shortly before 2 p.m. when the bus crashed head-on into the building on Lincoln Road in Prospect Lefferts Gardens. The bus was traveling southbound on Bedford Avenue before the crash, officials said….