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  • Mom Turns in Son Accused of Public Masturbation on NYC Train in Viral Video, Police Say 

    An accused public masturbator who was seen on video being shamed off a New York City No. 2 subway train after allegedly touching himself was turned in to police by his mother, NYPD officials say, DNAinfo reports. According to the report, the suspect, identified as 23-year-old Kevin Cuffe, was turned in to the police three…

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    Breanna Edwards

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  • Broadway Dancer Admits to Killing Boyfriend Via Facebook Post

    Marcus Bellamy, a 32-year-old dancer on the Broadway stage, allegedly murdered his boyfriend, Bernardo Almonte, in their walkup in the Bronx borough of New York City and then took to Facebook to confess, according to the New York Daily News. “Forgive me,” he wrote Friday after reportedly beating and strangling Almonte. “I did it for love.…

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  • Boy Who Lost Parents in 2015 Murder-Suicide Gets Trip to Disney World From NYPD

    A 7-year-old Bronx, N.Y., orphan who lost his parents to murder-suicide was gifted a dream vacation by members of the New York City Police Department, who told him that he has “godmothers and godfathers for the rest of [his] life,” the New York Post reports. Tyrone Lowe Jr. found his mother shot dead by his…

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    Breanna Edwards

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  • NYC Family Loses 2nd Son to Gun Violence

    On Wednesday, at around 9:15 p.m., Dontay Gordon, 17, along with a 21-year-old friend, were on College Ave. near East 170th Street in the Claremont Village section of New York City’s Bronx borough when they were shot at by someone driving by in a livery cab, the New York Daily News reports. Dontay later died at Lincoln…

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  • NY Man Builds Barbed Wire Fence to Protect Donald Trump Sign 

    One New York man wants to make absolutely sure you know exactly who he’s supporting in this year’s presidential race. In fact, he seems to have taken a lesson straight out of his candidate’s book; however, although Donald Trump wants to build a wall along the border between the U.S. and Mexico, Robert Marini just…

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    Breanna Edwards

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  • New York Life Insurance Co. Fires Director for Calling BLM Activist 'Racist Pig Whore' on Facebook

    Editor’s note: This article contains social media posts that some may find offensive. A racist antagonizer of the Black Lives Matter movement has been fired after his words wrote a check that his ass couldn’t cash. Shanelle Matthews, director of communications with the Black Lives Matter organization, was verbally attacked on Facebook by Corey Multer, a managing…

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    Kirsten West Savali

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  • NY Mother Charged in 'Painful, Horrible' Death of Toddler

    A New York mother is facing charges of manslaughter after her 15-month-old succumbed to significant injuries, the Washington Post reports. According to the Post, officials also believe that the child may have been put in a freezer, because her body was “extremely cold.” The incident unfolded around 5:30 a.m. Friday, when officers responded to a…

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    Breanna Edwards

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  • White Neighbor Arrested After Fire Erupts in Home of Only Black Firefighter in Tonawanda, NY

    Matthew Jurado, 39, had recently been removed from the Gratwick Hose Volunteer Fire Co. when a suspicious fire broke out at the home of Kenneth Walker, the only black firefighter in Tonawanda, N.Y. Two days before the incident, Walker had received a racist and threatening letter in his mailbox, NBC News reports. According to the news station,…

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  • Black Volunteer Firefighter's Home Engulfed in Flames 2 days After Receiving Racist, Threatening Note 

    A North Tonawanda, N.Y., volunteer firefighter who was threatened by a racist letter found in his mailbox Monday lost everything in a fire at his home Wednesday morning, WGRZ reports. Kenneth Walker and his family are safe, but two cats died in the fire damage, and the family lost all their possessions. According to the…

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    Breanna Edwards

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  • NYC Settles With Family of Avonte Oquendo for $2,700,000 

    The city of New York is paying out $2.7 million to settle a wrongful death lawsuit filed by the mother of Avonte Oquendo, the autistic boy whose body was found in New York City’s East River in January 2014 three months after he disappeared from his Queens, N.Y., school, the New York Daily News reports.…

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    Breanna Edwards

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