Actor Lisa Banes was in critical condition Saturday after she was struck by a hit-and-run scooter driver Friday night on a New York street. Banes, 65, was headed out to meet her wife for a dinner party at a friend’s home when she was struck by a red and black scooter or motor bike at …
Police in New York’s Hudson River valley are looking for a man who hasn’t been seen since he walked out of a Poughkeepsie hospital nearly two weeks ago. Andrew Neiman was admitted to MidHudson Regional Hospital early in the morning on May 21 for mental issues, his sister, Emily Asher Abramson, posted on Facebook, and …
A New York woman was arraigned on Tuesday in connection with last month’s suspected hit-and-run crash that killed a police officer. Jessica Beauvais, 32, is accused of fatally hitting NYPD officer Anastasios Tsakos, 43, with her car on the Long Island Expressway on April 27. Prosecutors said Tsakos’ body flew 100 feet and landed on …
A 34-year-old sub shop manager pleaded guilty to second degree murder last month in the death of co-worker Allyzibeth Lamont in 2019, but James Duffy says the shop’s owner paid him to do it because Lamont was “causing problems” for him over back pay. The shop owner, 51-year-old Georgios Kakavelos, is set to go on …
A New York police officer was killed on Tuesday by a woman who allegedly admitted to drinking alcohol and smoking marijuana before the deadly crash. Hours before allegedly causing the hit-and-run wreck that killed NYPD officer Anastasios Tsakos, Jessica Beauvais was reportedly seen in a Facebook live stream drinking shots and vaping while talking about …
A New York elementary school teacher was criminally charged on Wednesday with sexually abusing at least nine students over the span of four years. Northwood Elementary School principal Kirk Ashton, 51, is accused of abusing boys, between the ages of eight and 12, while on school grounds and during school hours. The Rochester Democrat and …
A career criminal busted Friday for yelling anti-Asian threats at an undercover cop was released on his own recognizance on Saturday, prompting a retired NYPD detective to complain about the city’s “revolving door justice system.” Following a bail reform law enacted by the state legislature last year, certain misdemeanors — those that cause no injury …
A former youth pastor in New York, already convicted of unlawful surveillance after he was discovered filming girls changing clothes in his camper, has now been charged with producing child pornography in federal court. Nathan L. Rogers, 37, was the youth pastor at Life Church in West Seneca in July 2019 when he attended a …
One of the infants had a shower loofah wrapped around his neck, police said
A 15-year-old New York boy reportedly died by suicide last week after an extortion attempt by someone the boy had met online. Riley Basford reportedly took his own life on March 30. Basford’s family told the Watertown Daily News the investigators who examined his cellphone uncovered Facebook messages which suggested the teen had developed a …
The 37-year-old woman was walking home from shopping at Walgreens when she was fatally gunned down
An upstate New York woman found dead in the trunk of a car in Queens this week died from a blow to the head that fractured her skull and caused a brain injury, the New York Daily News reports. Destini Smothers, 26, had been missing since November when she came to New York to attend …
