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In this June 17, 2011 file photo, New York City Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly attends a news conference at police headquarters in New York.

A sobering night in police custody wiped the smirk right off the face of the alleged would-be "assassin" who thought firing a bullet into the head of a hero police officer was a giant joke.

Keystone College helped give Jennie Barrese the tools and inspiration she needed for a successful career in the arts.

A pregnant 16-year-old was killed yesterday - on her due date - when the car she was riding in crashed as it sped down the Major Deegan Expressway in The Bronx, police said.

City Councilman Daniel Dromm speaks before a panel on inclusive sexual education programs on Jan.

Feb. 2, 2009: In this photo supplied by the Mayor's Office, New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg holds the city's prognosticating rodent, Charles G. Hogg, also known as Staten Island Chuck, at the Staten Island Zoo during Groudhog Day festivities in New York.

The daughter of an Israeli politician and former defense minister has been jailed in New York in connection with a prescription drug fraud case in Florida, authorities said Thursday.

Punxsutawney Phil might have predicted six more weeks of winter Thursday morning, but National Weather Service officials believe Westchester might continue with one of the warmest winters in recent memory.

A secret police document shows that the New York Police Department recommended increasing surveillance of thousands of Muslims and their mosques based solely on their religion.

New CBS police drama NYC 22 will premiere Sunday, April 15 at 10 p.m., the network announced Wednesday.

A 10-year-old girl was shot in the leg in broad daylight Wednesday afternoon in the Fairmont-Claremont Village section of the South Bronx, authorities said.

A fast-moving fire killed a Queens grandmother today as the rest of her family managed to escape from the South Jamaica blaze.

A troubled man was arrested early Wednesday morning after attacking his 45-year-old mother and 9-year-old brother with a hammer in their Brooklyn home, Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly said.

The Bronx man who says a video posted to YouTube proves that he was brutalized by several police officers appeared in court Wednesday, and his family is calling for charges to be brought against the officers involved in the incident.

The man who was arrested for allegedly shooting a cop in the head at the Bushwick Houses was known as a violent man, residents said.

Acting on a tip, police broke down the door at 610 Morri Park Avenue in The Bronx at 1:00pm local time and discovered a staggering 600 marijuana-growing pots.

A Long island Raid Road train in the Jamaica station. Queens-based transit advocates say the borough's commuters would be better served if the railroad would reactivate the northern portion of its old Rockaway branch.

City Councilman Leroy Comrie says he plans to fight the city's attempt to relocate the Cambria Heights Academy, a specialized high school in Hollis, into a building with Middle School 72 in Jamaica.

The view from the fourteen floor of Ink48 - a former printing plant transformed into sparkling Kimpton hotel in New York City's Hell's Kitchen - reveals a Lego landscape of interlocking buildings.

A New York City police officer was shot and wounded in Brooklyn after responding to a radio call of shots being fired in Bushwick Tuesday night.A The alleged gunman was arrested late Tuesday night.