Two men attacked a 54-year-old Hasidic man on a Brooklyn street, one hitting the victim in the face with a basketball, the other ripping the yarmulke off his head, police sources said Friday.
Video posted on Instagram shows an NYPD officer repeatedly hitting and kneeing a man in the head while trying to arrest him in the Bronx.
Security camera footage recorded in a store in Bnei Brak three weeks ago shows an ultra-Orthodox man sexually assaulting a 7 year-old girl.
A Georgia man has been arrested following a gunfire battle with cops after allegedly shooting his grandmother and killing her husband.
BANGKOK – Coordinated explosions targeting some of Thailand’s most popular resort cities and beach towns killed at least four people and wounded dozens more. Police said Friday that 10 foreigners were injured in the violence, some of the worst here since the military seized power in a coup two years ago.
Vanessa Marcotte, the 27-year-old Boston University graduate killed while jogging in Princeton on Sunday, struggled with her attacker and probably left him with scratches, scrapes, and bruises, the authorities said Thursday.
Before federal agents raided the offices of Platinum Partners in June, the $1.2 billion hedge fund had been reporting robust returns, thanks partly to oil fields it owns in California.
Nearly 100 people have been shot in Chicago in less than a week, pushing the number of shooting victims so far this year to more than 2,500 about 800 more than this time last year, according to data kept by the Tribune.
A judge on Thursday refused to ease parole conditions for freed Israeli spy Jonathan Pollard so he can begin work as a financial analyst.