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Applebee's expects to close several restaurants. Will Westchester locations be impacted?
Applebee's expects to end the year with 25 to 35 fewer U.S. locations, but will any of the Westchester restaurants be among those closing? Dine Brands Global, the parent company, has not indicated which locations will close around the country. A spokesperson could not be immediately reached for comment about whether or not...
Broad Daylight Murder: Hempstead Man Sentenced For Shooting, Killing Victim
Twenty-seven-year-old Savonn Dangerfield of Hempstead received his sentence of 15 years to life in prison on Tuesday, May 14, the Nassau County District Attorney announced. Original Story: Man Admits Shooting, Killing Victim During Broad Daylight Walk On Long Island. Six years before, in October 2018, Jeffrey Lee, age 23, was...
Babylon Man Claims $5M Prize On Cash X100 Scratch-Off Game
Long Island resident William O’Donnell, of Babylon, claimed a $5 million top prize playing the NY Lottery’s Cash X100 scratch-off game, lottery officials announced. O’Donnell received a single lump sum payment of $3,255,000 after paying taxes. He purchased the incredibly lucky ticket in Lindenhurst, at the Maakrupa...
NYC woman charged with murdering boyfriend who told neighbor ‘she stabbed me’ with dying breath
A Harlem woman has been charged with murder over the weekend stabbing of her boyfriend — who identified her as his alleged attacker before dying, prosecutors said Tuesday. Michelle Hernandez, 44, is accused of killing her 47-year-old beau Alejandro Santos, who stumbled out of their West 147th Street apartment Sunday afternoon banging on neighbors’ doors while bleeding out of wounds to his chest and arm. “She stabbed me,” Santos reportedly told a neighbor who opened their door, before saying “I think I’m going to pass out” and collapsing, according to a complaint filed in Manhattan criminal court. Hernandez then emerged from the apartment and told neighbors Santos...
Violent Carjacking: Men Pull Gun On Woman In Manhasset Parking Lot, Police Say
Brian Perales, age 22 of Brooklyn, was arrested on Monday, May 13 in connection to the Manhasset crime, which Nassau County Police said occurred in February. Just before 5:30 p.m. on Wednesday, February 7, a 48-year-old woman was parking her 2024 Mercedez Benz in the parking lot at 981 Northern Boulevard.
Migrants charged in attack on NYPD cops in Times Square offered plea deals, including one who was rearrested
Six of the migrants charged in connection to the vicious attack on two NYPD officers in Times Square were offered plea deals Tuesday as a Manhattan judge revealed that one of the accused cop-beaters was arrested again while out on bail. Yohenry Brito, 24 — who was remanded after his initial arrest — was nabbed last week for petit larceny after an activist Brooklyn priest posted his $15,000 cash bail in February, Judge Laura Ward said in Manhattan Criminal Court on Tuesday. “I am furious that Mr. Brito was rearrested and charged with petty larceny while he was out on this...
NYC victims lured with Facebook ads, violently robbed by thieves wielding guns and nail-spiked bat
The NYPD is investigating a months-long crime spree in which victims responding to car ads on Facebook Marketplace have been violently robbed by thieves wielding guns and a baseball bat spiked with nails.
Puerto Rico ‘most wanted’ fugitives on run since shootout with cops caught hiding in NYC: sources
Two of Puerto Rico’s most wanted fugitives were caught hiding in the Bronx — months after they got into a shootout with police and vanished, law enforcement sources told The Post. The US Marshals fugitive task force collared the slippery pair — Jay Livan Diaz-Del Valle, 25, and Hector Manuel Cruz-Ayala, 27 — on Monday and Tuesday, respectively, sources said. Their charges stem from a Dec. 12, 2023 encounter with the Puerto Rico Police Department, whose officers were trying to arrest the duo on weapons possession charges, sources said. Pulse-pounding video shows moment shootout breaks out, leaving 4 law enforcement officers dead near...
Long Island contractor convicted in 5-year-old NYC girl's wall collapse death
A 48-year-old Nassau County man and his construction company have been convicted at a bench trial on criminally negligent homicide and other charges in the 2019 death of a 5-year-old Brooklyn girl who was killed when a "dangerously flawed" stone fence collapsed on her, prosecutors said Tuesday. She died in...
N.Y. Lottery: After using $1 Powerplay feature, NYC player claims $2M in Powerball prize as one-time lump sum
STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — A lottery player in New York City has claimed $2 million in a doubled Powerball second prize, according to lottery officials. Chi Lee Lee of Elmhurst, Queens, matched the first five numbers in a Powerball drawing on Feb. 26, according to the New York Lottery. When purchased, Chi Lee Lee opted for the $1 Powerplay feature that allows players to multiply a non-jackpot prize up to 10 times. It automatically doubled the second $1 million prize to $2 million.
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