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Federal prosecutors in Brooklyn announced Wednesday they’ve indicted a half-dozen suspects in connection with the Dec. 3 robbery turned bloodbath in Brighton Beach.
- The mayor, who was on Rikers to announce that the DOC has seized 2,700 weapons and other contraband this year, suggested some of this year’s deaths may be the result of inmates having “preexisting conditions” or otherwise being in poor health.
- Major League Baseball tried to jump on the Yankees bandwagon with a mistake-laden tweet deserving of a hearty Bronx cheer.
- Confessed serial killer Richard Cottingham targeted innocent women across the New York area, and there may be many more — he's claimed responsibility for scores of additional murders.
- For 13 years, insurance worker Richard Cottingham stalked his female victims in New Jersey and Manhattan. By the end, the man known as the “Times Square Killer” was butchering prostitutes and setting their decapitated bodies afire, earning a second tabloid alias: “The Torso Killer.”
- “We’re not going to be so rigid,” Adams said, after an assault on a cop in a Brooklyn subway station caused hizzoner and the NYPD to retreat from the solo patrol plan the same day he announced it.
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Education
- The more than 1,800 public and charter schools overseen by the city occupy buildings that are 70 years old on average, and many are equipped with outdated heating and cooling systems.
NYC Crime
- Federal prosecutors in Brooklyn announced Wednesday they’ve indicted a half-dozen suspects in connection with the Dec. 3 robbery turned bloodbath in Brighton Beach.
Brooklyn
- The usual and unusual assortment of revelers were thrilled by the long-awaited return of Coney Island’s official start to the summer for the first time since 2019.
Queens
- Searchers in the South Ozone Park wreckage located Devon Harripersaud, 23, in the early afternoon, ending the grim search for his remains.
Bronx
- Lil Tjay, whose real name is Tione Jayden Merritt, released his debut album, “True 2 Myself,” in 2019.
