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Cops: Woman Landlord Decapitates Female Tenant

Alleged murder is over $200 in rent money

(Newser) - A New York woman viciously hacked apart a tenant and spread her body parts around Long Island after the woman refused to pay her entire rent, prosecutors say. Leah Cuevas, 42, is accused of decapitating 27-year-old Chinelle Browne earlier this month in a Brooklyn apartment building, the Daily News reports....

Brooklyn Woman Found Living With Mother's Bones

Chava Stirn, 28, discovered living in trash-packed apartment with remains

(Newser) - Skeletal remains were found in a Brooklyn apartment on Monday, and the New York Post today reports that, as suspected , a 28-year-old woman found in the apartment had been living with her dead mother's bones. Cops came upon the scene after the apartment building’s superintendent, who was investigating...

Skeletal Remains Found in Trash-Filled NYC Apartment

Woman may have lived with mom's body for a year: sources

(Newser) - Police were called to a Brooklyn apartment over a foul odor last night, and they found a bunch of garbage, debris ... and skeletal remains. First, they found a 28-year-old woman who threatened to hurt herself, the New York Daily News reports. But when she was taken to a hospital for...

Man Doesn't Get Job, Shoots Up Shop

At least 2 injured in Brooklyn incident

(Newser) - A man applying at a Brooklyn iron shop today was denied the job—and his reaction was to open fire, police sources and witnesses tell the New York Post . The unidentified man pulled a gun out of his bag around 11am, a C&A Iron Works employee says, and immediately...

How One Therapist Billed Medicare for $4M

Wael Bakry says he just has a successful practice

(Newser) - How can more than $4 million in Medicare money flow through a small doctor's office in Brooklyn? Seeking answers, the New York Times reports on the world of physical therapy—where demand is on the rise, treatments vary wildly by region, and authorities are cracking down on doctors who...

Spike Lee Rant Triggers Debate on Gentrification

He unleashes during Brooklyn event

(Newser) - A Spike Lee tirade earlier this week on gentrification in New York City's black neighborhoods continues to resonate, with Lee going on CNN last night to explain his expletive-laden rant. He's fine with new people moving into neighborhoods that were once mostly black and mostly poor, he says....

Man Busted in String of 'Knockout' Hate Crimes

Police say Barry Baldwin assaulted two elderly women, a mom

(Newser) - New charges in the much-discussed " knockout game ": This time, a 35-year-old Brooklyn man is facing six counts of hate crime assault, among other charges. Police say Barry Baldwin attacked seven people, two of whom were elderly, CNN reports. The victims were white women, mostly Jewish, a police insider...

400 Teens Plow Through Brooklyn Mall

Unaccompanied minors briefly banned after reported fights

(Newser) - The day after Christmas, some 400 teens burst into a Brooklyn mall, and fights and looting ensued, according to New York Post sources. The kids reportedly thought—incorrectly—that the rapper Fabolous was going to perform at Kings Plaza. "I was begging them to stop. There were a lot...

Hospital Gave False HIV+ Diagnoses: Lawsuit

Whistleblower: I've been mistreated and assaulted at work

(Newser) - Imagine being falsely diagnosed with HIV. Or told you don't have Hepatitis C after you've just tested positive. Both are allegations made by a whistleblower at King County Hospital Center in Brooklyn, Gawker reports. Lili Hutchison, a 51-year-old lab worker, has been alleging misconduct on the job for...

Iran Rockers' US Dream Ended in Massacre

Cops say shooter was booted from another band

(Newser) - The bloodshed in Brooklyn early yesterday brought a horrific end to the career of a band that was huge in Tehran's thriving underground rock scene—and a rising star in the US. Yellow Dogs members Arash and Soroush Farazmand were shot dead along with occasional vocalist Ali Eskandarian by...

NYPD: Man Kills 3 Who Threw Him Out of Band

Attack happened early this morning in Brooklyn

(Newser) - Four people are dead in Brooklyn today, and sources are pointing the finger at a musician who they say was out for revenge. The New York Post reports that the gunman arrived at a Bushwick building around midnight and began shooting a semi-automatic weapon; police describe a scene littered with...

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8 Kids Hospitalized by ... Axe Body Spray

Noxious odor in classroom turns out to be from the product

(Newser) - Eight sixth-graders in Brooklyn ended up in the hospital Wednesday thanks to the unleashing of Axe Body Spray in a classroom, reports the Smoking Gun . The parents of two other students brought their kids to family doctors. School officials called for medical help when the kids started having trouble, and...

Cops Charge Cousin in Brooklyn Stabbings

Husband's cousin had been living with slain mom, 4 kids

(Newser) - A Chinese immigrant has been arrested on five counts of murder in the deaths of his cousin's wife and her four children in a late-night stabbing rampage in their Brooklyn home. The New York Police Department said today that 25-year-old Ming Don Chen has implicated himself in the deaths....

4 Kids, Mom Stabbed to Death in Brooklyn

Police have suspect in custody

(Newser) - New York City police say a mother and her four children are the victims of a stabbing rampage at their Brooklyn home. Authorities say the victims are 37-year-old Qiao Zhen Li, 9-year-old Linda Zhuo, 7-year-old Amy Zhuo, 5-year-old Kevin Zhuo and 1-year-old William Zhuo. A person of interest has been...

Boy, 1, Shot Dead on NYC Street

Cops say Brooklyn dad was intended target

(Newser) - The latest victim of gun violence in New York City: a one-year-old. Antiq Hennis was shot in his stroller as his parents pushed him across a Brooklyn street yesterday evening, and was pronounced dead at the hospital from a gunshot wound to the head. The boy's father was the...

Man Electrocuted on NYC Subway Tracks

Friend couldn't save Matthew Zeno, 30

(Newser) - Those warnings about the third rail are no joke. After a night out, a man was walking along the subway tracks in Brooklyn when he "inadvertently made contact with the third rail and was electrocuted," per the NYPD as reported by Gothamist . The New York Daily News takes...

Self-Help Radio Couple Commit Suicide

Brooklyn's Lynne Rosen and John Littig found dead with notes

(Newser) - A pair of life coaches who dispensed advice to listeners on a radio show out of Brooklyn has committed double-suicide, reports the Daily News . Lynne Rosen, 46, and her longtime partner, John Littig, 48, hosted the monthly show The Pursuit of Happiness on WBAI-FM. They suffocated themselves using plastic bags...

Boy, 10, Fights Off Intruders With Their Own Gun

Scares home invaders out of Brooklyn house

(Newser) - A 10-year-old in Brooklyn appears to be well on his way to becoming Batman. The New York Post reports that two armed men, pretending to be FedEx deliverymen, invaded the boy's home last night, ordering two teens to remain in the living room. Then one of the men made...

Brooklyn Honors Beastie Boy With a Park

Adam Yauch gets honor a year after his death

(Newser) - Beastie Boy Adam Yauch died almost exactly a year ago of cancer, and today he got a nice tribute from his hometown of Brooklyn. The parks department renamed a small park in his honor, reports USA Today . "This is real! And it is awesome," declares Daily Intel . (Here'...

Skeleton Found in Charred Suitcase in NYC Building

Police ask public to help identify woman

(Newser) - A year after a fire at a Brooklyn building—and days after the building's sale—a woman's skeleton was discovered in a charred suitcase inside. Though the suitcase was found last month, police aren't sure when or how it ended up in the building, the New York ...

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