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Bronx dad killed in bar fight; spent 27 months on Rikers for stabbing he didn’t commit

February 5, 2024 at 11:18 a.m.

A Bronx dad who spent more than two years on Rikers Island for a stabbing he didn’t commit was knifed to death during an argument outside a bar in his...

Steven Ruffin, now 45, spent 14 years behind bars after a Brooklyn jury convicted him of manslaughter in the shooting of 16-year-old James Deligny.

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Ex-Brooklyn resident Steven Ruffin’s slay conviction tossed in case tied to disgraced NYPD Det. Louis Scarcella

January 19, 2024 at 8:46 a.m.

Steven Ruffin, now 45, spent 14 years behind bars after a Brooklyn jury convicted him of manslaughter in the shooting of 16-year-old James Deligny.

MTA police officers fatally shot a man armed with a Mac-10 machine pistol as they tried to arrest him late Friday for groping a 19-year-old woman in Queens, authorities said.

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MTA police fatally shoot parolee armed with machine pistol in Queens: VIDEO

December 30, 2023 at 5:15 p.m.

MTA police officers fatally shot a man armed with a Mac-10 machine pistol as they tried to arrest him late Friday for groping a 19-year-old woman in Queens, authorities said.

Grandmother of eight Latishia thought her neighbors had their TV set too high when she heard gunshots on the floor above. She learned different as paramedics rushed the 23-year-old victim outside, his blood still staining the entranceway there.

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Neighbor recounts Christmas Eve slaying at Harlem housing complex

December 25, 2023 at 11:10 p.m.

Grandmother of eight Latishia thought her neighbors had their TV set too high when she heard gunshots on the floor above. She learned different as paramedics rushed the 23-year-old victim...

NYPD officers and detectives investigate the gunpoint theft of an ATM machine from a smoke shop on Marcus Garvey Blvd. on Dec. 23, 2023. (Jeff Bachner/New York Daily News)

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Brooklyn shopkeepers unfazed by brazen heist of ATM machine

December 24, 2023 at 4:12 p.m.

Shopkeepers working next door to a pilfered smoke shop were unfazed to learn that four thieves muscled an ATM out of the Brooklyn tobacco emporium Saturday, saying enterprising crooks are...

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Internet prankster, NYPD baiter Richard Sharp busted for Midtown smoke shop rolling paper robbery

December 23, 2023 at 5:18 p.m.

The internet prankster who enjoys posting recordings of himself trying to steal guns from cops on patrol was arrested for stealing Bob Marley rolling papers at a Midtown smoke shop,...

“It was a terrible scene," the victim's neighbor told the Daily News on Thursday, adding that the son who discovered her body was screaming, "My mom was killed!"

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Queens woman strangled by tenant in clash over unpaid rent, cops say; family describe her as kind to a fault to deadbeat

December 7, 2023 at 7:50 p.m.

“It was a terrible scene," the victim's neighbor told the Daily News on Thursday, adding that the son who discovered her body was screaming, "My mom was killed!"

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