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Boyfriend: I killed tot over her ABC’s
A man admitted in Bronx court yesterday that he beat his girlfriend’s 3-year-old daughter to death with a belt when she refused to do her ABC’s — a form of...
Dirt-biker in tragedy is $lapped
The Bronx man who was riding a dirt bike when a police cruiser plowed into him last August, killing his friend, was found guilty yesterday of reckless driving and fined...
ID gangs net $1.5M
Bank customers nationwide were bilked out of $1.5 million by three local ID-theft rings, the Bronx DA’s Office said yesterday. Seventeen people were arrested yesterday and charged with ripping off...
‘Lying’ narc: Blame beer
A veteran NYPD narcotics detective accused of perjury is claiming that her nightly habit of downing more than a dozen beers until she “passes out” impaired her memory when she...
Kin face tot-slay suspect
It took seven years but the parents of a 2-year-old boy killed by a stray bullet finally got to look the fiend suspected of firing the shot in the eye....
Father of slain HS football star pleads guilty to assault in 2011 parking lot incident
The father of a star high school running back fatally stabbed during a brawl with two parking attendants ended the saga Friday when he was allowed to plead guilty to...
Bronx man freed after 38 years in prison as judge tosses child-murder conviction
After nearly 40 years behind bars, a Bronx man shouted cries of joy yesterday as a judge vacated his conviction for the murder of an 8-year-old girl he says he...
Rat pol cuffed
The former Bronx assemblyman who turned government informant after he was busted on perjury charges — leading to a colleague’s bribery arrest — was finally arraigned yesterday on his own...
Disgraced ex-pol Nelson Castro arraigned, indictment unsealed
Disgraced ex-Assemblyman Nelson Castro was hauled into Bronx court today in handcuffs to be arraigned on the four-year-old perjury indictment that led him to flip and start working as an...
Female court officers feeling the 'squeeze' from state mandate on bulletproof vests
Curvy court officers need to get something off their chests! A new state rule requires all court officers to wear bullet-proof vests — but the boob-squishing safety gear has no...
Vid shows cop ‘lied’
The cop who rammed a dirt bike, killing its driver and injuring the passenger, was caught in an apparent lie yesterday after surveillance video viewed in Bronx Criminal Court shows...
Prison for gay-center embezzler
The former chief of a Bronx gay-community center broke down in tears yesterday at her sentencing for stealing $338,000 and using it for personal expenses. Blubbering Lisa Winters, who pleaded...
Sobbing ex-head of Bronx gay community center sentenced to at least 2 years in prison for stealing funds
The disgraced former head of a Bronx gay community center sobbed in court today -- apologizing and making excuses -- before she was sentenced to at least two years behind...
Bx. dirt-bike raps tossed
Bronx prosecutors tossed the top charges against the man previously accused of fleeing cops on a dirt bike — a chase that ended with the death of his friend.Assistant DA...
Bx. prosecutors drop top two charges against man injured when cop rammed into dirtbike during chase
Bronx prosecutors today abruptly dropped the top two charges against a man injured when an cop rammed into his dirtbike during a chase. Assistant District Attorney Elizabeth Brandler said the...
Cop ‘killer’ suing city
The man accused of masterminding a botched robbery that ended with a police officer’s death has another get-cash-quick scheme up his sleeve: suing his jailers. Nelson Morales is facing a...
NYPD cruiser hits dirtbike, killing driver, during Bronx chase
A graphic video of an NYPD cruiser slamming into two men on a dirtbike in The Bronx — killing the driver and injuring the passenger — raises questions about whether...
Brakes on phony auto inspections
Motor-vehicle inspectors at seven Bronx auto shops were arrested and accused of conducting more than 13,000 fraudulent vehicle-safety and -emission inspections during a three-month sting operation, the state Attorney General’s...
Seven Bronx motor vehicle shops busted for conducting 13,000 fraudulent inspections
Eight motor vehicle inspectors at seven Bronx auto shops were arrested and accused of conducting more than 13,000 fraudulent vehicle safety and emission inspections during after a three month sting...
Yanks’ grand slam in tix war
The Yankees just dealt another strike to ticket reseller StubHub. The Bombers — who had already dropped the online firm as their authorized reseller earlier this year — yesterday won...