A Syracuse man who was awarded $1.5 million for an incident in which he accused police of using excessive force in his arrest has asked the mayor to hire the next police chief from outside the agency.
Read More →A guidance counselor at Grover Cleveland High School in Queens was arrested on Wednesday for punching a police officer in the face during a dispute inside the school.
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Easton Jordan—a 6-year-old boy in Buffalo, NY, who suffers from cerebral palsy—recently completed a "walk, run, and roll" fundraiser to benefit the Make Lemon Aide Foundation for Cerebral Palsy. He insisted on doing the walk under his own power, despite the fact that he typically uses a motorized wheelchair to get around when his disease wears him down.
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New York City Mayor Bill De Blasio has agreed to provide unlimited sick leave to city employees who have 9/11-related illnesses.
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"Responding officers identified a device that appeared to be an explosive device and they removed it for investigation," NYPD Commissioner James O'Neill said at a press conference.
Read More →Rosie O'Donnell, the former co-host of The View, is reportedly engaged to marry a police officer with the Worcester (MA) Police Department.
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A Rindge (NH) Police Department squad car was vandalized this week by a man who poured maple syrup all over the vehicle.
Read More →A county prosecutor and a division of the state attorney general's office have ruled that Camden County, NJ, Police Officer David Stinsman was justified in fatally shooting Jose Fernandez in January 2017.
Read More →The officer—who is as yet unidentified—reportedly engaged in a foot pursuit of the subject, apprehending him and placing him under arrest.
Read More →The department said in a Facebook post that Officer Stephen Barone was fired "after the completion of internal investigations and a formal hearing process regarding charges related to his interaction with a group of people in August 2018 and his supervision of a traffic incident in July 2018."
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