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West Orange Teen in Medically Induced Coma, Parents Die in Car Accident
KEARNY, NJ – West Orange residents Shavonn Stewart-Oliver and Rhakeem Oliver died from injuries sustained in a five-car accident on March 16 on the Newark-Jersey City Turnpike in Kearny at 7 a.m. Their daughter Khameryn was airlifted to the hospital and is in a medically induced coma at Jersey City Medical Center.CLICK HERE TO SIGN UP FOR THE FREE TAPINTO.NET NEWSLETTER According to officials, Rhakheem was pronounced dead at the accident site, and Shavonn passed away at the hospital a week later. Shavonn’s brother, Jamaal Stewart, has set up a GoFundMe campaign to pay for Khameryn’s medical care and rehabilitation...
Seal frolics on Coney Island beach before being guided back to water, adorable video shows
This seal was ready for beach season. A seal frolicked on a Coney Island beach Wednesday before it was guided back to the water after being spotted by an eagle-eyed City Hall staffer. The light-colored sea creature wrestled around at Coney Island Creek Park before Elijah Hutchinson, the executive director for the Mayor’s Office of Climate and Environmental Justice, noticed the seal appearing distressed near the shore as he walked to a nearby community event with in Brooklyn. “It kind of blended in with the sand,” Hutchinson told The Post. ‘Feisty’ seal pup found in the middle of a Nantucket roadway Hutchinson called...
Terrifying video shows man chase woman on NYC street after following her on subway
Terrifying surveillance footage shows a man chasing a woman down a New York City street after following her in and out of the subway and calling her "cute," authorities say. According to the NYPD, the 48-year-old woman was on a northbound J train at the Cypress Hills station during a Tuesday morning rush hour earlier this month when the man stared at her and said, "Hey, you cute."
Kitchen worker left with stitches after NYC subway attacker hits him with beer bottle warns ‘it’s not safe anymore’
A kitchen worker was left with six stitches after a stranger bashed him in the face with a beer bottle in a Midtown subway attack Wednesday — as the battered victim warned “it’s not safe anymore.” Rafael Galves Garcia, 44, was standing on the northbound A and C train platform at Columbus Circle around 10:10 p.m. when a deranged man approached him and asked for a dollar, cops said. “The guy came up to me and asked for money,” Garcia told The Post in Spanish Thursday afternoon. “I told him, ‘No, I don’t have any money.’ I thought he was leaving but...
He didn’t trust police but sought their help anyway. Two days later, he was dead
PATERSON, N.J. (AP) — Jameek Lowery entered the dimly lit lobby of the city’s police headquarters in a panic. He was having a mental breakdown — and needed help. Barefoot and wearing only pajama pants and a sweatshirt in the pre-dawn hours of Jan. 5, 2019, Lowery pulled out his cellphone and began a social media broadcast of an anti-police rant.
2 teenagers recovering after shooting in front of Newark high school
NEWARK, N.J. -- Two teens are recovering after a shooting in front of a Newark high school.A 17-year-old remains in critical but stable condition.CBS New York's Christine Sloan spoke to Newark's mayor and organizations to learn more about how they're trying to stop the violence.The Newark Community Street Team's high risk intervention unit rushed to West Side High School on Tuesday after two teenagers, including a student, were shot outside the school."What I did was I told all the kids that was running that way to go to a certain area," team member Isiah Hall said.Team member Valtrez Diggs, who...
Another NYC woman sucker-punched on street in attack that left her with broken jaw
Shocking video captured the moment a Brooklyn school bus aide was sucker-punched by a serial attacker with multiple busts – knocking out her teeth and leaving her with a broken jaw that had to be wired shut. Dulche Pichardo, 57, said she was commuting home from work at about 5 p.m. Tuesday when a stranger took a swing at her on the sidewalk of Grand Avenue near Dean Street in Crown Heights. “He just punched me on the right side here, very strong,” Pichardo told PIX11, adding that the brute never said a word. The disturbing surveillance footage shows her stumbling backward after the...
Trump attends wake of slain New York officer, calls for ‘law and order,’ to show contrast with Biden
MASSAPEQUA PARK, N.Y. (AP) — Donald Trump attended Thursday’s wake of a New York City police officer gunned down in the line of duty and called for “law and order,” as part of the presumptive Republican presidential nominee’s attempt to show a contrast with President Joe Biden and focus on crime as part of his […]
Shooting At Food Service Distributor Leaves Victim Critical: Linden PD
Around 6 a.m., Linden police responded to a shooting at Maximum Quality Foods at 2251 Tremley Point Road, officers said in a release. The victim was shot multiple times, police said. He was transported to a nearby hospital in critical condition, police said. The suspect fled the scene prior to...
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