A man was shot in the chest and critically injured inside a Bronx bodega Monday night, police source said.
The victim was shot in the left side of his chest inside the Melrose Deli Grocery, at Melrose Ave. and E. 157th St., about 10:30 p.m., sources said.
Medics took the victim to Lincoln Hospital in critical condition.
The shooter fled along E. 157th St. in a dark blue Nissan Altima, sources said.
Now that the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID vaccine has received full approval, employers and public businesses have legal cover to start issuing mandates for employees and customers. And they should.
Taking over on short notice for a scandal-plagued predecessor in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic, New York Gov. Kathy Hochul began her tenure Tuesday with more than enough challenges for a new administration. “New York as a whole has been a tough place for women to break into the highest levels, because there is very much a tight set of powerful gatekeepers," said Debbie Walsh, director of the Center for American Women and Politics at Rutgers University.
The U.S. military pulled off its biggest day of evacuation flights out of Afghanistan by far on Monday, but deadly violence that has blocked many desperate evacuees from entering Kabul's airport persisted, and the Taliban signaled they might soon seek to shut down the airlifts. Twenty-eight U.S. military flights ferried about 10,400 people to safety out of Taliban-held Afghanistan over 24 hours that ended early Monday morning, and 15 C-17 flights over the next 12 hours brought out another 6,660, White House officials said. The chief Pentagon spokesman, John Kirby, said the faster pace of evacuation was due in part to coordination with Taliban commanders on getting evacuees into the airport.
His resignation, which comes after a report concluded he had sexually harassed employees, makes way for Kathy Hochul to become the state's first female governor.
A missing Moab couple were found murdered with a gun after a four-day search.
A domestic helper accused of mixing her menstrual blood and urine into her former employer’s food claimed trial on Monday (23 August), with her male employer testifying that he had received messages from her ex-boyfriend allegedly alerting him to the incidents.
A group of out-of-towners were trying to enjoy a meal when two suspects attempted to rob them at gunpoint. They all complied with the demands, but one gunman still opened fire, killing an off-duty officer.
"If they give one more vaccine after today, after being put on notice, then they can be hung up, and they can be executed," Christopher Key said in a video.
An Iowa man charged with taking part in the Jan. 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol has asked a judge not to send him back to jail even though he was caught violating the terms of his pretrial release by accessing the internet. Douglas Jensen's lawyer, Christopher Davis, wrote in a court filing Sunday that Jensen concedes that he violated the terms of his release by accessing a video-sharing website that features misinformation about COVID-19 vaccinations and the 2020 presidential election. “Mr. Jensen knew that this was not allowed and is prepared to accept the consequences of his actions,” Davis wrote, though he told U.S. District Judge Timothy Kelly that Jensen had complied with all of the other terms of his release and asked him to give Jensen another chance.
Detective Everett Briscoe was described as a dedicated community police officer.
A man who pretended to be a police officer to coerce a social escort into giving him "sexual favours" was jailed for 18 years and sentenced to 24 strokes of caning on Monday (23 August).
When stopped by North Carolina deputies, David Sierra Orozco had more than $100,000 in cash hidden in his car.
Police said the man hit the ground headfirst after flipping and falling during a Dead & Company concert on Friday at Citi Field in Queens, New York.
One of the notorious Arellano Felix brothers was deported from the United States back to Mexico after serving most of a 15-year prison sentence, but he was promptly re-arrested when he arrived in his homeland Monday. Prosecutors in Mexico said Eduardo Arellano Felix was handed over to Mexican federal authorities at a border crossing in Matamoros, across from Brownsville, Texas.
"It's really hard. The hardest part is seeing her, taking her to bed and saying goodnight and then wake up the next day and she's gone," said the father of a Concord teenager, who police say may have died in an accidental overdose over the weekend.
An unused .22-caliber round was found next to the bed of a Colorado woman who disappeared last year and whose husband is charged with killing her, and a tranquilizer gun and accessories were also found in the couple's home, investigators testified Monday. Prosecutors also showed body camera footage of Barry Morphew with deputies at the couple's home on May 10, 2020, the day his wife Suzanne Morphew was reported missing by a neighbor, during the third day of a court hearing to determine if he will stand trial, The Denver Post reported. The deputies were looking for an item of Suzanne Morphew's clothing to help tracking dogs find her.
According to city leaders, Bissonnet between Beltway 8 and the Southwest Freeway is a known hotbed for prostitution. A new law is hoping to change that.
A ministry program student at a Texas prison. Some inmates cite religion to avoid gang recruitment. Robert Daemmrich Photography Inc/Corbis via Getty ImagesThe United States incarcerates a larger proportion of its citizens than any other developed country in the world, with around 1.5 million people serving time in prison. But to anyone who doesn’t work or live in a facility, life behind bars largely remains a mystery. The public gets a glimpse of life on the inside only when there are riots, ex
Hours before leaving office, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo on Monday granted clemency to six people, including the driver in a fatal 1981 armored truck robbery whose release was championed by his son, San Francisco’s top prosecutor. David Gilbert, 76, is serving a life sentence for his role in the bungled 1981 Brink’s robbery north of New York City, a bloody heist involving leftist revolutionaries that left a guard and two police officers dead. Through Cuomo’s action, he will be referred to the state parole board for potential release.
Authorities believe that Tatum Morell, an experienced hiker, was “caught in a significant rock slide and suffered fatal injuries”
