Teen Shot, Killed on Bronx Subway Platform

Eight Subway Shooting Suspects Wearing Orange Jackets
Early this morning a 17-year-old boy was fatally shot at the southbound 2 train platform at the West Farms Square/East Tremont Ave stop, and police pulled at least 12 men from the platform for questioning. Police say the Victim was shot in the chest around 1:30 a.m. and was pronounced dead on arrival at St. Barnabas Hospital. Oddly, of the 12 men pulled for questioning, the Daily News reports that "about eight of them wore similar orange puffy jackets." We're not sure if that's some sign of vi...

Detroit police release sketch of suspect in fatal shooting
Detroit police release sketch of suspect in fatal shootingHe's described as an 18- to 22-year-old who's 5-foot-6 to 5-foot-7 with a skinny build and weighing 150-180 pounds, according to DPD Sgt. Eren Stephens. He has a light Skin Tone, side burns, a slight mustache and a low hair cut. He was last seen wearing a black skull cap and a plaid jacket with four or five pockets. The man allegedly killed Ryan Stokes, 23, and injured a 21-year-old during an ar...

Joanna Yeates's body found, police confirm
guardian.co.uk, Sunday 26 December 2010 12.01 GMT Police search the area where Joanna Yeates's body was discovered, at the edge of Longwood Lane in Bristol, on Christmas morning. Photograph: Matt Cardy/Getty Images Police have confirmed that a woman's body found at a roadside verge near Bristol yesterday was that of the missingarchitect Joanna Yeates. Officers said they were treating the death as "suspicious" and continued to search the area where the body was found, three miles from Yeates...

2nd Video Released Of Suitcase Murder Person Of Internet
Police released another video showing a man believed to be connected to the Murder of a woman whose body was found in a suitcase. The first video showed a man dragging a suitcase down East 114th Street, near where the body was found. In the new video, the Daily News says, "The man in the new video - who appears to be paying in cash inside an area Supermarket then picking up a bag of groceries - wears the same black winter coat and wool hat as the individual seen with the luggage." The Post rep...

Skelton, other rookies aid win over Dallas
Forget the completion percentage, John Skelton is 2-1 as an NFL stating Quarterback. He was chief among a host of rookies who played big roles in Arizona's 27-26 Christmas night victory over the Dallas Cowboys. The 6-foot-6 quarterback from El Paso, Texas, via Fordham in The Bronx, completed three crucial passes on the final drive that resulted in Jay Feely's winning 48-yard field goal with 5 seconds to go. The biggest play came on fourth-and-15, when he hit Larry Fitzgerald for a 26-yard gain. ...

THE 3-MINUTE INTERVIEW: Ilir Zherka
Since 2002, Zherka has been Executive Director of D.C. Vote, a group that lobbies for the District's 600,000 residents to have a vote in Congress. On the offensive the past two years with a Democrat in the White House and the party leading Congress, Zherka and D.C. Vote are now preparing to play defense against an incoming Republican House. No, my family came here from Albania in 1968 when I was 2 1/2 years old. I then grew up in New York City -- The Bronx. I think my upbringing and perspective...

New York Crews Ready To Tackle The Snow
NEW YORK (CBS 2) - For anyone who feels denied a White Christmas, just wait. The Big Apple was preparing for Sunday’s Snowfall with tall salt piles, city trucks, spreaders and plows. The snow was expected to be deep enough to keep sanitation crews busy non-stop Sunday into Monday. “They really plow the streets really well starting in Manhattan so I think we’ll be alright,” said Upper West Side resident Mason Ford. “I’m ready for it. I love snow,” s...

Last-Minute Shoppers Give It Their All In Final Hours
NEW YORK (WCBS 880) - Friday’s shopping lines stretched down the aisles, shopping carts overflowed and procrastinators crammed stores in a last-minute effort to finish Christmas Shopping. As folks descended on shopping areas like Herald Square, they had to meet the requirements needed: sharp elbows and patience, WCBS 880’s Monica Miller reports. When asked what it was like to shop on Friday, Carlos Santiago from The Bronx just had one word. “Horrible,” he said. Shay...

Post Is Terrified Of Ghostly FedEx Center In Bronx Warzone
Are you wondering what happened to that desperately-needed package of hygiene products your mom promised she sent you weeks ago? Well, if you live in a building in Manhattan without a doorman or neighbor to sign for your package, it's probably stuck in The Bronx at a massive FedEx storing facility. But that's not in just any old corner of the Bronx: it's in the Fallujah section of the borough. At least that's what the Post would have you believe. The center, at 670 E. 132 St. in Port Morris, i...

Newscasters Not Afraid Of The Big Bad Blizzard
NEXT » While some of us are lucky enough to enjoy a Snow Day from the comfort of our own homes, a few audacious newscasters bundled up and took to the streets to commit journalism. What did they find out? Well, it was really cold. A few reporters seemed underprepared for last night's harsh weather. ABC7's Lauren Glassberg zipped her fur-lined coat up to her nose as she reported from Herald Square, saying that Macy's was still packed despite the weather. The channel's other newscaster, Je...

Video: Letters To Santa Going To Chelsea Couple
For the past few years, right around Christmastime, West 22nd Street residents Jim and Dylan have received a trickle of letters from Children written to Santa Claus, but mistakenly addressed to their apartment. They shrugged off the letters as a peculiar mystery, but that all changed this year when their mailbox was flooded with 400 letters to Santa. They have no idea why Children around the tri-state area think Santa resides in their Chelsea flat, but this Christmas they decided to do someth...

Model's cause of death released
Ellen Borakove, a spokeswoman for the New York City Medical Examiner's Office, told United Press International Thursday the 28-year-old model died Dec. 21 from anoxic-ischemic encephalopathy from a near drowning off the Rockaway Peninsula in the New York City borough of Queens. DeVoe, who had modeled for several Fashion houses including Dolce & Gabbana and Anne Klein, was surfing when his leash, a tether connecting the surfer's ankle to the board, became snagged on an underwater pole, the New Yo...

In Memoriam
By all indications, 2010 should have been a banner year for street safety in New York. As the city continued to roll out physical improvements to reduce risks to Pedestrians and cyclists and announced unprecedented further measures to come, State Legislators stepped up with new laws intended to hold accountable, however incrementally, motorists whose negligence results in injury and death. Most promising of all, it seemed, was an infusion of new blood at the Manhattan District Attorney’s o...

Hospital Blunder Almost Buried Woman
(NewsCore) - Police in Brazil were investigating Monday after an 88-year-old woman was almost buried alive when a Hospital declared her prematurely dead, Brazilian newspaper G1 reported. A death certificate was issued Dec. 22 for Dona Maria das Dores da Conceicao, claiming high blood pressure and clogged arteries as the cause, and a Funeral was planned. From there, she was due to be taken to a cemetery, before workers preparing her for burial at a Funeral parlor in the eastern city of Ipatinga n...

Veteran Woburn officer killed during robbery
WOBURN - Authorities say a Veteran Woburn Police Officer responding to an armed Robbery at a Department Store has been killed in an exchange of gunfire with one of the suspects. Middlesex District Attorney Gerry Leone identified the officer as John Maguire. One suspect was also killed and two others were arrested. Leone said Maguire and other officers responded to a Kohl’s store just before 9 p.m. on Sunday to reports of a Robbery at the jewelry counter. Maguire chased two suspects and wa...

Suicide bombings kill 17 in Iraq
Twin Suicide bombings rocked a government compound in Iraq's western city of Ramadi on Monday, killing as many as 17 people, a police source said. Details of the attack, the second on the compound this month, remained sketchy with different sources giving varying figures for those killed and injured. "The death toll has risen to 17, most of them police officers, and 47 people have been wounded," said a police official at the site of the attack, speaking on condition of anonymity. He ...

Rescued seaman dies in hospital
A seaman rescued from a fire on board a ship off the Kent coast on Christmas Eve has died in Hospital. The man was one of three crew members flown by RAF Helicopter to Margate after inhaling smoke from the fire on board Turkish cargo vessel Eren Turgut. The two other crewmen are in a critical condition and have been moved to other hospitals from the Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother at Margate. The vessel has been moved into the Netherlands' territorial waters. RNLI lifeboats from Dover and ...

Three killed in suicide car bombing in Afghanistan
A Suicide car bombing in the heart of the southern Afghan city of Kandahar on Monday killed three and wounded 26 people, most of them policemen, authorities said. South Afghanistan, a traditional Taliban stronghold, has seen some of the worst fighting this year between the Militants and foreign and Afghan Troops. President Hamid Karzai issued a statement condemning the attack. The car exploded at midday near a police compound and a branch of Kabul Bank in the crowded center of the city, said N...

Mass. cop, suspect killed during jewelry heist
WOBURN, Mass. — A Police Officer responding to an attempted armed Robbery at a Department Store's jewelry counter was shot dead in a gunfight, authorities said. A suspect also was killed. The shootings happened Sunday night at a Kohl's store in Woburn, a city of about 40,000 residents just north of Boston. The officer was shot while responding to a Robbery in progress, police and prosecutors said. He was taken to a Hospital in nearby Burlington, where he died. Updated 7 minutes ago ...

Doc Says Teen Unfit for Stabbing Trial
TYLER, Texas - A teenager accused of fatally stabbing his teacher in an East Texas classroom last year has a "low probability" of maintaining a level of competence required for trial, a forensic psychologist wrote to the juvenile judge considering the case. Dr. Emily Fallis observed that the 17-year-old boy remained delusional and dangerous and had few lucid moments in a 2 1/2-hour interview, according to a seven-page report submitted in November and obtained by The Dallas Morning News for a sto...

Suicide Car Bomb Kills 3 in South Afghan City
Like this Story? Share it: Some recent scenes from the War in Afghanistan as Obama's deadline to begin withdrawing Troops nears. (AP) Kandahar, Afghanistan - A Suicide car bombing in the heart of the southern Afghan city of Kandahar on Monday killed three and wounded 26 people, most of them policemen, authorities said. South Afghanistan, a traditional Taliban stronghold, has seen some of the worst fighting this year between the Militants and foreign and Afghan troops. President Hamid Karzai iss...

2 Killed, 2 Hurt in Phoenix Strip Club Shooting...
PHOENIX - Phoenix police say a second man has died after a gunman opened fire in a Strip Club. Sgt. Tommy Thompson says the shooting occurred shortly before midnight Sunday at the Great Alaskan Bush Company. Police say a 28-year-old man walked into the club in the 2900 block of Grand Avenue and opened fire, hitting four people before running out of ammunition. "We had a man show up with a hand gun and shot the bouncer at the door and made his way inside and fired off several rounds," said Phoeni...

Woman found dead with face trauma on South Side
A 67-year-old woman was discovered dead with trauma to her facial area this morning at her residence on the South Side in the city's Brainerd neighborhood. Vickie Myers, of the 9100 block of South Laflin Street, was pronounced dead at 3 a.m. at the Stein Institute, according to a spokeswoman for the Cook County Medical Examiner's office. Myers was found with trauma to her head area, but it was not clear what caused her injuries, the spokeswoman said. She said police were investigating. Ther...

Package bomb found at Greek embassy in Italy
ROME - A package bomb was found at the Greek Embassy in Rome Monday, three days after mail bombs exploded at two other embassies injuring two people. Greek Foreign Ministry spokesman Gregoris Delavekouras said from Athens that no one was harmed in the latest incident, in part because heightened security measures had already been put in place. "The embassy was evacuated and the staff assembled some distance away from the building, so that everyone could be accounted for," he told The Associ...

Bus hits, kills man at Walt Disney World
ORLANDO, Fla., Dec. 27 (UPI) -- A Massachusetts man apparently stepped into the path of a bus and was killed at Walt Disney World's Port Orleans resort, the Florida Highway Patrol said. Robert Kreuger, 69, of Yarmouth Port, Mass., on Cape Cod, was struck Sunday in a Parking Lot at the resort, the Orlando Sentinel reported. The bus hit Krueger and knocked him to the ground. He died later at Orlando Regional Medical Center, said Sgt. Kim Montes, a Florida Highway Patrol spokeswoman. The crash is u...