The NYPD issued a statement that two of its police officers received suspensions without pay due to their mishandling of a call regarding a disturbance at the home of a woman who had suffered abuse at the hands of her husband, and subsequently died. The officers drove to her home in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, but…

A Brooklyn man was arrested for the murder of his ex-girlfriend one day after he was released from Rikers Island prison, where he had been serving a sentence for sexual abuse and domestic violence charges. Jerome Rivers, 52, was accused of strangling the woman at her Ozone Park home. He was charged with murder and…

A teacher who was previously employed by the city, and who voiced his objections to a “gender bender” day at a public high school in Brooklyn, has found himself unemployed. A social studies teacher named Richard Severin disagreed with a “spirit day” event at Urban Action Academy in Canarsie in April 2016 in which students…

Police recently convicted a Brooklyn man nearly two decades after he raped a teenage woman on a subway platform. Prosecutors nabbed him using DNA evidence from the case files on the 1998 incident. He faces up to 25 years in prison for the crime. Johnny Jacob, 45, was convicted on May 16 of a first…