- Federal prosecutors in Brooklyn announced Wednesday theyāve 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 yearās deaths may be the result of inmates having āpreexisting conditionsā or otherwise being in poor health.
- Confessed serial killer Richard Cottingham targeted innocent women across the New York area, and there may be many more ā 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 āTimes Square Killerā was butchering prostitutes and setting their decapitated bodies afire, earning a second tabloid alias: āThe Torso Killer.ā
- āWeāre not going to be so rigid,ā 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.
- Loud music on an East Harlem street sparked a wild caught-on-camera melee in which a cop was punched and spat on, police said Wednesday.
- Antonio Bradley, 28, used his clothing to hang himself June 10. The Correction Department was aware almost right away that Bradley was in a vegetative state and would not recover, said Cary London, his familyās lawyer.
- The crash left six people injured, including the driver, with three of them taken to Bellevue Hospital in critical condition.
- It's not yet clear what sparked the shooting.
- Firefighters responded to the Mill Brook Houses tower on St. Annās Ave. near E. 135th St. in Mott Haven at 3:05 a.m. after getting calls about an odor of gas.
- Cops in Chelsea took Madeline Barker, 47, into custody Friday after they recognized her as the woman in the bias-fueled June 11 attack, a police spokeswoman said.