Heroin Is Making A Comeback To NYC, With Fatal Overdoses
Heroin is killing more people than people in New York City, highlighting a comeback for the opiate in recent years that has many in the US worried.
NYPD: Brooklyn Man Driving With Loaded Machine Gun Arrested
Police arrested a man for driving around Bed-Stuy with a machine gun and an assortment of other weapons yesterday evening, after initially pulling him over for his excessively tinted windows.
Andrew Getty, Grandson of J. Paul Getty, Dies At 47
A grandson of billionaire energy mogul J. Paul Getty was found dead Tuesday in his LA home with a rectal injury, according to a report.
NYC Doctors Accused Of Using Free Shoes Offer To Defraud Medicaid
Brooklyn, NY – Twenty-three New York City doctors and medical workers have been charged with running an insurance fraud scheme in which they persuaded homeless and poor people to get unnecessary medical testing with promises of free shoes, prosecutors said on Tuesday.
Amanda Knox Guilty Verdict Overturned By Italy’s Highest Court
Italy’s supreme court has overturned the murder convictions of American Amanda Knox and her former boyfriend Raffaele Sollecito in the 2007 killing of Meredith Kercher, a British woman. Knox and Sollecito, who is Italian, were previously convicted in 2009, acquitted on appeal in 2011, and re-convicted in 2014.
Amanda Knox: Italy’s Highest Court Set To Deliver Verdict
ROME—Italy’s highest appeals court is expected to decide on Friday whether to uphold or overturn the conviction of Amanda Knox and her former boyfriend for the murder of British student Meredith Kercher in 2007.
White Supremacist To Be Arraigned For Jewish Kansas City Shooting
A Missouri white supremacist is scheduled to be arraigned on Friday afternoon on charges that he fatally shot three people outside two Jewish centers in a Kansas City suburb last April.
Keith Foster, Fresno Deputy Police Chief, Arrested On Drug Charges
The deputy police chief of Fresno, California, was arrested Thursday on charges of possession and intent to distribute heroin and other drugs, federal and local law enforcement officials said.
Police Say California Woman Concocted Fake Abduction With Boyfriend
Police investigating the alleged kidnapping of a woman from a northern California home said late Wednesday — hours after she was “found” more than 400 miles away — that it was a hoax “orchestrated” with the woman’s boyfriend.
Rockland County – 29 Arrested In Massive NY Heroin, Oxycodone Ring
Twenty-nine people have been busted for participating in a massive heroin and oxycodone trafficking ring that distributed drugs throughout Rockland County, including out of parking lots at the Palisades Center Mall in West Nyack, authorities said Wednesday.