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Why are more officers being assaulted? NYPD commissioner weighs in.
NEW YORK -- Assaults against police officers increased 20% in 2023 and are up 15% so far in 2024, CBS New York's "The Point with Marcia Kramer" reported Sunday. It begs the question, do more people think it's acceptable to assault an officer? Kramer posed the question to New York City Police Commissioner Edward Caban, the son of a cop who joined the NYPD as a patrol officer in the Bronx in 1991. Here's what he had to say: "A harsh reminder" "It's a dangerous job ... and the murder of Det. Jonathan Diller is a harsh reminder of that. In that instance, we...
Spotted lanternflies to start hatching around NY, NJ: Why you should kill them
Editor’s note: The video above is from March 3, 2023. NEW YORK (PIX11) — As May approaches, the tri-state area will be seeing the return of spotted lanternflies as they begin to hatch. New York State’s Department of Environmental Conservation said spotted lanternflies (SLFs) are a major threat to the state’s agricultural industry and should […]
Sweet viral video shows little girl hugging NYC ‘pretzel man’ after week away
Heartwarming footage captures a little girl running into the arms of a local pretzel vendor outside her New York City preschool after she returned from vacation. The child’s mom, Tina Mangan, told The Post on Sunday that she was uneasy at first watching 4-year-old daughter Madison recently sprinting down the sidewalk along busy Canal Street in Manhattan after school — until she saw the little girl head straight into the arms of the pretzel-cart seller, a sweet scene captured in a TikTok video that has gone viral since the mother posted it last week. “I was like nervous at first because she was running, and it’s like on the busiest street ever,” Mangan said. Then “he just put his arms out … and I was like, ‘Oh my God, what’s happening?’ And I...
April 27 Powerball Numbers
According to the Powerball website, a player in the Garden State won the $1 million prize, along with someone in Georgia, in the Saturday, April 27 Powerball drawing. The winners matched all five numbers drawn. The winning numbers were 9, 30, 53, 55, and 62. The red Power Ball drawn was 23.
NYC illegal pot shop worker boldly defiant as officials question lack of enforcement: ‘It’s not going to do anything’
A brazen worker at one of the city’s thousands of unlicensed pot shops delivered a message to the New York cannabis cops promising to padlock stores like his — bring it on! The defiant clerk thumbing his nose at authorities works at Gelato on 86th Street in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn — but the store does not serve the popular Italian ice cream at all. “That’s nothing new. That’s always been a possibility of getting raided here. But I’m not going to be put out of a job!” said the worker, who refused to give his name and puffed weed during a Post...
Mother and Daughter Sentenced To Prison For COVID Relief Fraud
A mother and daughter in New York have been sentenced to prison for unjustly receiving $1.7 million in a COVID-19 relief fraud. The mother, Andrea Ayers, was a civilian employee of the Mount Vernon Police Department. The Journal News reports U.S. District Judge Nelson Roman sentenced Ayers to three-and-a-half years in prison; her daughter, Alicia, received a sentence of two years. The younger Ayers, a financial advisor and accountant, will serve 6 months on house arrest following the prison stint. The scheme consisted of both women submitting over 300 fake applications to the Small Business Administration’s Economic Injury Disaster Program...
Brooklyn BMW driver, 24, fatally shot by passenger
A 24-year-old man was shot to death inside a BMW on a Brooklyn street just a few blocks from where a man was gunned down a week earlier, police said Sunday. The latest victim, Daequan Buckley, was shot multiple times in the abdomen outside the Magic Fingers Studio Hair Salon near E. 54th St. and Church Ave. in East Flatbush about 8:20 p.m. Saturday, cops said. “The shooter was a passenger in ...
How Columbia University's complex history with the student protest movement echoes into today
NEW YORK (AP) — College students taking up space and making demands for change. University administrators facing pressure to get things back under control. Police brought in to make arrests. At other schools: students taking note, and sometimes taking action. Columbia University, 2024. And Columbia University, 1968. The pro-Palestinian demonstration and subsequent arrests at Columbia that have set off similar protests at campuses nationwide these days and even internationally aren’t new ground for students at the Ivy League school. They’re the latest in a Columbia tradition that dates back more than five decades — one that also helped provide inspiration for the anti-apartheid protest of the 1980s, the Iraq war protests, and more. “When you’re going to Columbia, you know you’re going to an institution which has an honored place in the history of American protest,” said Mark Naison, professor of history and African & African American Studies at Fordham University and himself a participant in the 1968 demonstrations. “Whenever there is a movement, you know Columbia is going to be right there.”
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