Author: NY Daily News

For months, a Brooklyn Shomrim leader coerced a teenage girl into an illegal sexual relationship, using his status as the anti-crime patrol’s chief to scare her into keeping quiet, federal prosecutors hope to prove in court this month. Jacob Daskal, 64, is slated to face trial in Brooklyn Federal Court on allegations he groomed the…

Q. My wife is a registered nurse. Her employer petitioned for a green card for her. We have been together for a while, but we married after our lawyer told us that by marrying, I could get a green card when she does. Is that possible? I know that her green card application will take…

Flooding along the Hudson River Valley has claimed at least one life as heavy rains swamped roadways and left thousands without power Sunday. Authorities were alerted to the storm-related drowning shortly after 8 p.m., local officials said. Rep. Pat Ryan confirmed the fatality in a Tweet, which described severe flood damage affecting property across the…

Police are looking to the public for help tracking down a man who stabbed a 39-year-old woman to death in the Bronx, cops announced Sunday. The NYPD unveiled surveillance footage of the man they say stabbed the victim in the torso on Friday, according to police. A bystander called 911 after witnessing the assault on…

Cops pulled the body of a man from Harlem Meer in Central Park on Sunday. Bystanders called 911 after spotting the corpse floating in the body of water near E. 110th St. and Fifth Ave. at 3:16 p.m., cops said. Video tweeted by Freedomnews.tv showed the body of a man in a red-and-white-striped collared shirt…

A popular energy drink marketed on social media to kids by social media influencers Logan Paul and KSI has more than three times the caffeine as Red Bull, posing an alarming health danger to youngsters, New York’s Sen. Charles Schumer said Sunday. Prime energy drink needs to be investigated by the federal Food and Drug…

Cops are asking the public to lend a hand and help them nab a creep who sexually assaulted a woman inside a Brooklyn subway station, police announced Sunday. Investigators released images of the perv described as a 5-foot-4 man weighing 150 pounds and with short-cut black hair, according to law enforcement. He snuck up on…

To his roommate and neighbors, 25-year-old Brooklyn man Thomas Abreu was the ideal acquaintance — “quiet,” “unaggressive” and ”normal.” Then on Saturday he hopped on his moped, drove two blocks away from his home and allegedly initiated a half-hour of horror that spanned two boroughs, left three wounded and claimed the life of 87-year-old Queens…

The elderly Queens man shot dead by a scooter rider on a random spree in Queens loved to walk through his neighborhood and never feared being out and about, his devastated longtime friend told the Daily News. Hamod Ali Saeidi, 87, walked several miles every day, checking in on family and friends. Saturday would have…

Devastating video footage shows an 87-year-old man’s final moments on a Queens sidewalk after he was shot by a scooter-riding gunman who left three others wounded in a bloody spree. The suspect, now in police custody awaiting charges, chose his targets at random during his 30-minute Saturday morning spree through Brooklyn and Queens, police say.…