Author: NY Daily News

Six New York City contractors were charged in Manhattan Friday with funneling straw donations to Eric Adams’ 2021 campaign for mayor, prosecutors said. The Manhattan district attorney unsealed indictments accusing Dwayne Montgomery, Shamsuddin Riza, Millicent Redick, Ronald Peek, Yahya Mushtaq, Shahid Mushtaq, and a Queens-based site safety management company they own, Ecosafety Consultants Inc., of…

A Staten Island criminal suspect stricken with cancer died in the Bellevue Hospital jail ward, triggering charges Friday that because of his illness he never should have been locked up in the first place. Ricky Howell, 60, was arrested and sent to Rikers Island for a series of burglary charges in Staten Island and Queens…

Cary Epstein, lifeguarding supervisor, monitors the waters from above as he operates a drone for a shark patrol flight at Jones Beach State Park on July 6, 2023, in Wantagh, N.Y. Drones are sweeping over the ocean off the coast of New York’s Long Island to patrol the waters for any danger possibly lurking. (John…

The drunken Mercedes-Benz driver who slammed into a city Departmental of Environmental truck in Queens, killing an agency worker, has been charged, police said Friday. Errick Persaud, 24, was charged with vehicular manslaughter and driving while intoxicated. Police said the 38-year-old victim, was riding in the front passenger seat of a DEP truck that was…

A woman walks with a hand fan covering her face on a hot afternoon in Midtown Manhattan on July 6, 2023, in New York City. The first days of July 2023 were believed to be the hottest in Earth’s modern history, as scientists have noted an increase in global temperatures with the planet experiencing the…

Cops investigating a man’s body discovered stuffed in a garbage bag in Queens arrested his brother Thursday for concealing the corpse. They also happened upon a second body at the victim’s home, police said. Police conducted a wellness check at 31-year-old victim Kyle Danielson’s home, where he lived with his brother on 104th St. near…

At least 18 people were hospitalized and over 60 others requested an evaluation for injuries after a city bus and a double-decker tour bus collided on a Manhattan street Thursday evening, officials said at the scene. An MTA X27 bus and a double-decker tour bus collided at E. 23rd St. and 1st Ave. in Gramercy…

A 28-year-old man was fatally shot in the Bronx on Thursday, according to police. The victim was walking with the aid of a cane on E. 223rd St. near Carpenter Ave. when an unknown shooter approached and blasted him in the side, cop sources said. The man, believed to be the killer’s intended target, took…

A fight between a CVS worker and a man attempting to shoplift from the Midtown store turned deadly on Thursday morning when the employee knifed the man in the torso, cops and police sources said. Employee Scotty Enoe and a man trying to steal goods got into an argument near the door of the CVS…

An Albany man was sentenced on Thursday to seven years in jail for killing a Queens hospital worker while driving drunk during a 97 mph drag race. Alamin Ahmed, 25, pleaded guilty in May to manslaughter and assault charges following the November 2020 crash that killed Daniel Crawford, a 52-year-old new grandfather and lab technician…