Amanda Lozada
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This home invasion will make your skin crawl
A man slept in his bed just feet away as a burglar creepily crawled on all fours into the bedroom of a Queens house early Wednesday, surveillance footage shows. A...
Angry moms rail against city's mandatory flu shot requirement
Arguments over whether the city can require pre-K students to get flu shots reached a fever pitch in Manhattan Wednesday, with a courtroom full of anti-vaccination activists railing against everything...
Why Black Friday may not be as busy as usual
Many New Yorkers are planning to skip Black Friday and do all their holiday shopping over the weekend — from home. “No crowds and no lines,” Charmaine Blake, 41, said,...
Trust-fund baby accused of killing dad had paranoid delusions
The Princeton grad charged with shooting dead his millionaire dad had a disturbing psychiatric history including paranoia that the cast of “Saturday Night Live” was “mocking” him and that people...
Ex-NBC producer dodges jail sentence after posting secret sex tape
A former NBC web producer who posted a secret sex tape of his girlfriend on a porn site pleaded guilty to a reduced charged Tuesday and was sentenced to three...
Hundreds mourn 10-year-old girl and grandpa who died trick-or-treating
More than 300 mourners packed a Bronx church Saturday to mourn a granddad and his 10-year-old granddaughter, who were both fatally mowed down by a motorist who jumped a curb...
Accused cop killer appears in court
The career criminal accused of killing a police officer appeared at a bail hearing in a Bronx court Thursday morning for a prior drug charge. Tyrone Howard, 30, who allegedly...
Ticket-fix cop: We lost everything
Saying that cops have “lost everything” as a result of the Bronx ticket-fixing scandal, the last NYPD officer to plead guilty in the scam vented to a judge Thursday as...
Protesters flip off NYPD days after cop slay
Director Quentin Tarantino fired up the crowd by complaining that cops are too often “murderers.”
Daily Blotter
Brooklyn The suspected bank robber pictured above is turning Friday into payday. He’s wanted for robbing the same Flatlands bank twice in seven days, police said. The first theft occurred...
Bratton says 2015 will be the city's safest year ever
Despite a spike in murders and rapes year to date, 2015 will be the safest year for overall crime in the Big Apple’s history, NYPD Commissioner Bill Bratton promised Thursday....
Fallen fisherman's wife tried to stop him before tragic trip
She begged him not to go. The heartbroken widow of one of the two fishermen who drowned Friday night when their vessel capsized in Jamaica Bay pleaded with her husband...
My mom stole my lotto jackpot to pay for her cosmetic surgery
A Brooklyn woman fighting her mother over a million-dollar lottery jackpot says Mom has already used some of the dough to get herself a face-lift, breast reduction and dental implants...
'Landlord-killer' prepped daughter to say he was framed
A Brooklyn handyman accused of murdering his boss coached his daughter to testify that cops coerced her into helping them nab him, prosecutors said at his murder trial Thursday, playing...
Popular public school may have eligibility zone cut in half
Parents itching to send their kids to a wildly popular public school in Brooklyn Heights will be out of luck if a new plan to cut the school’s eligibility zone...
Family mourns bus driver killed in crossfire of gun bust gone wrong
A school-bus driver accidentally killed during an undercover NYPD bust gone wrong was remembered Saturday as a loving and religious family man who was simply in the wrong place at...
Contractor lit match to check gas leak, sparking school explosion
A plumbing-company employee somehow thought it was a good idea to check a gas leak by lighting a match — setting off the massive explosion at a high-school building, officials...
'Dig the whole damn thing up': Bratton's plan to save Times Square
Police Commissioner Bill Bratton said Thursday he has a surefire way to get rid of the pushy costumed characters in Times Square — “just dig the whole damn thing up!”...
Ex-con held in shelter director's killing must give DNA sample
The ex-con charged with murdering a Bronx homeless shelter director will have to submit a DNA swab to investigators, the judge ruled Thursday in Bronx Supreme Court. West Spruill’s attorney,...
Hero firefighter finally home after being shot by gang leader
FDNY Lt. James Hayes enjoyed a joyful return home Saturday, a day after being shot by a desperate ex-con during a six-hour standoff on Staten Island. “He is in very...