Jamaica News

'At this point I don't really care about the TV. I just want these guys to be caught,' says Bentley White, 64, recovering at Jamaica Hospital after crooks shot him.

Detectives look at a television in the middle of 223 Steet in Queens - the target of would-be robbers who shot a 64-year-old man.

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Exterior of Walmart in Valley Stream where a worker was trampled to death by a crowd of "Black Friday" shoppers last year.

Somnath Pal, BS , MBA, PhD Professor of Pharmacy Administration College of Pharmacy & Allied Health Professions St.

She was already crying when the 16-year-old youth stepped before a criminal court judge in the Bronx on Thursday, a "baby-faced" gunman to some in the news media, but only a son to her.

28 for the Coram man who died Saturday after being subdued with a Taser by Suffolk police.

It turned out the foursome had been involved in other similar incidents, including one earlier that day in Lynbrook, police said.

Few may recall the spectacular downfall of Marc S. Dreier , the prominent Manhattan lawyer who pleaded guilty to running an elaborate fraud scheme, because his house of cards fell just days before Bernard L. Madoff 's did.

Local activist Greg Mays stands in front of the Queens Supreme Court Building in Jamaica, Queens.

Queens Borough President Helen Marshall with Deputy Director of NY region office Ligia Jaquez and NYC 2010 Census Coordinator Stacey Cumberbatch during a press conference for Queens Counts.

A developer who wants to place health care facilities at the shuttered Mary Immaculate and St.

In the Atlantic Diner in Queens on an afternoon two years ago, you could hear the sounds of a man peeling open the tin can around his soul.

The woman, a Queens resident, now faces grand larceny and forgery charges. Detectives with the Nassau County Police Department's crimes against property squad gave the following description of the incident: Melinda Mahoney, 33, of 175th Street, Jamaica , set up the account with a JP Morgan Chase Bank branch at 930 Rosedale Rd.

A development group has filed a request to reopen bidding on two shuttered Queens hospitals, citing an unfair bidding process in the last auction.

Najee grew up in Jamaica, Queens, and he recently released Mind Over Matter on Heads Up International.

Chef Unique Johnson proudly shows off her stuffed cheeseburgers and fries at Hollis Famous Burgers.

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The woman who crashed her minivan in Queens on Monday , killing two of the five girls she was ferrying to a foster center, was hiding a crack pipe, had alcohol in her system and was speeding in a vehicle whose middle row of seats had been removed, the police said on Tuesday.

A Queens woman who crashed a minivan on Monday afternoon, killing two girls with her, told the police that she had used heroin, cocaine and alcohol earlier that day, prosecutors said on Wednesday.