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Three Brooklyn residents were charged after kidnapping a New Jersey teenager and torturing the victim as they held the individual for ransom, according to prosecutors.

A killer in disguise is now in custody and facing murder charges for an execution-style killing on a Queens street, police said.

Police say they have found the man who disguised himself in traditional Hasidic clothing before gunning down a man on a Queens street in 2021. NBC New York’s Adam Harding reports.

Five single, unemployed Queens men face a litany of drug-related charges for allegedly distributing illegal marijuana shipments in bulk in parts of New Jersey — and keeping a storage facility in Jersey City where investigators executing a search warrant recovered more than a half-ton of weed, prosecutors said Thursday. Detectives from the Bergen County Prosecutor’s Office Narcotic Task Force identified…

Viktoria Nasyrova, 47, was convicted of attempted murder and other charges for poisoning another woman who looked like her with a sedative-laced cheesecake before stealing from her in a bizarre case that took place in 2016, prosecutors said.

A lithium-ion battery from an e-bike sparked the devastating fire at a Queens daycare center that hurt more than a dozen kids, one of them critically, officials say, marking the latest in a series of blazes linked to such units. The fire broke out in the middle of Wednesday afternoon in the basement of what appeared to be a duplex…

A 27-year-old man from Philadelphia is facing animal cruelty charges stemming from a traffic stop in New York City in which eight malnourished dogs were found in his car — seven of which were discovered inside a lidded bin, the local district attorney said. Queens District Attorney Melinda Katz announced Thursday that Ravon Service was charged with torturing and failing…

Outrage is growing over how the NYPD treated members of a far-right hate group at a recent protest over a “Drag Story Hour” event in Queens.

The group would then charge drivers $10 to be put to the front of the line to get a fare.

New York City and the New York City Football Club have reached a deal to build a new soccer stadium in Queens.

The man allegedly started the fire after the restaurant messed up his order of chicken biryani.

New video from the FDNY shows the moments a man allegedly torched a Queens restaurant after his order — chicken biryani, specifically — came out wrong, authorities say.

After an investigation that spanned five states and lasted over four decades, a man from Queens has pleaded guilty to the murder of a WWI veteran who was killed and buried in a backyard back in 1976.

Alison Russo-Elling , 61, was a World Trade Center first responder and 25-year veteran EMS member who was stabbed in a come-from-behind attack by a stranger when she went to get food by her Astoria stationhouse. She is survived by a daughter.

The rap star has to stay away from the two sisters at the heart of the 2018 case out of Queens and complete 15 days of community service.

Roddy Ricch was arrested on gun charges Saturday night, hours before he was scheduled to take the stage at Governors Ball. The NYPD said the 23-year-old was arrested after a security check of his tour bus revealed a gun under a seat and large capacity magazine. The Los Angeles-based rapper was in town for this weekend’s Governors Ball, where...

A handyman-turned-lover arrested in the horrific killing of a Queens mother admitted to sending a threatening text from Gaal’s phone to her husband Saturday morning, believed to be an effort to take suspicion away from himself

A 44-year-old handyman has been arrested for allegedly murdering a Queens mother in her own home as her teenage son sat upstairs last week, “ruthlessly and brutally” stabbing her more than 55 times before putting her body in her son’s hockey bag and leaving the duffel on the side of a road, police executives said Thursday. David Bonola, who is…

Masked kidnappers stormed into the NJ home and dragged the victim out, sending his wife a photo of him tied up with his mouth and eyes duct-taped as they demanded the huge ransom, prosecutors say.

The arrest comes a day after a Texas man was convicted of storming the U.S. Capitol with a holstered handgun, a milestone victory for federal prosecutors in the first trial among hundreds of cases arising from last year’s riot.