Special prosecutor Daniel Donovan Wednesday found no basis for criminal charges against Vito Lopez, the veteran Brooklyn assemblyman caught up in a sexual harassment case that's lurid even by Albany's laughable standards. But Donovan's report and one by the Joint Commission on Public Ethics, also released Wednesday, should alarm all New Yorkers who want to restore ethics, openness and honesty to... » more

Police have in custody a Brooklyn man suspected of burning mezuzahs in Williamsburg this week.

Rubin Ublies, 35, was picked up Wednesday morning by police for questioning regarding a dozen Jewish religious ornaments that were torched. Police said 11 mezuzahs were vandalized inside a Williamsburg building on Monday at 3:30 p.m. Then, the suspected arsonist damaged a mezuzah in a second building... » more

Rahmell Pettway needed an excuse for avoiding his girlfriend for two weeks -- so, naturally, he faked his own kidnapping.

Police found the 36-year-old Brooklyn man on Thursday hog-tied with duct tape lying in the street near Macon Street near Malcolm X Boulevard. But when they noticed the roll of duct tape dangling from his wrists, it became all too clear that Pettway had bound himself, the... » more

The Tribeca Film Festival is opening with some hometown flavor.

“Mistaken for Strangers,” a documentary that follows Brooklyn band The National on its biggest tour yet, will open the 12th annual festival on April 17, followed by a performance from the band.

“We’re really happy to premiere this movie at Tribeca, as New York has been home to us for these past 15 years,” National frontman... » more

A 70-year-old man shot his sister and her daughter Tuesday morning in Flatbush, killing his 63-year-old sibling and wounding his 37-year-old niece, according to the NYPD.

The man shot his sister in the chest and shot his niece, who had a bullet graze her head, inside of a house at East 25th Street and Clarendon Road. His niece was taken to Kings County Hospital and is in stable condition.

The... » more

Cops are hunting for a man who allegedly raped a woman blocks from Brooklyn College on Saturday night.

The suspect approached the 22-year-old victim -- who is not a student or faculty member -- near East 27th Street and Glenwood Road around 9:45 p.m., police said. He then allegedly dragged her to an alleyway, raped her, stole her belongings and fled.

Cops released footage of the suspect,... » more