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Couple and Their Dog Gunned Down in Targeted Shooting

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A man and a woman, along with their pet dog, were fatally shot in Manhattan, New York, on Friday evening. The victims, 57-year-old Jackie Billini and 42-year-old Levaughn Harvin, were discovered with gunshot wounds to the head near West 165 Street and Edgecombe Ave., as per local law enforcement reports. The couple was immediately transported to Harlem Hospital, where they were later declared dead. Their pit bull, Zeus, was also a casualty in the tragic …

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Human Leg Found Sticking Out of Dumpster Sparks Investigation

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A gruesome discovery was made in Queens on Wednesday when a human leg was found sticking out of a dumpster, according to local law enforcement. The New York Police Department was alerted to the situation around 6:30 p.m. after a passerby noticed the mutilated remains in a large red container in the parking lot of a TD Bank branch at 164th Street and Union Turnpike in the Hillcrest neighborhood. The leg was reportedly covered in …

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89-Year-Old Man Strangles Wife to Death

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An elderly man of 89 years, suffering from dementia, passed away just a few days after he allegedly strangled his wife of seven decades to death using a bath towel in a small town in upstate New York, as per local law enforcement. On August 29, around 2:30 in the afternoon, the Penn Yan Police Department responded to a distress call from a residence. A home health aide had discovered the lifeless body of Jane …

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Elderly Woman Brutally Assaulted with Her Own Cane at Subway Station

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A 60-year-old woman was brutally attacked by a man wielding her own wooden cane at a Harlem subway station. The assault, which was captured on camera, saw the woman struck 54 times within a span of three minutes. The incident occurred as the woman was exiting the southbound 2/3 platform at the W. 116th St. station at Lenox Ave. The assailant initially swung what seemed to be a black umbrella at the woman. In response, …

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Father Kills Family, Self in NYC Tragedy

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A tragic incident unfolded on the Upper West Side when a man, who was also the building superintendent, took the lives of his wife and their two young sons before ending his own life. The family was found in their fourth-floor apartment on West 86th Street, near Riverside Drive, shortly before 3 p.m. on Monday, according to police reports. The parents, aged 41 and 40, and their two sons, aged 1 and 3, were discovered …

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Robert De Niro’s grandson dies at age 19

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Robert De Niro’s family announced with great sadness that their beloved grandson, Leandro Anthony De Niro-Rodriguez, had passed away at the age of 19. The New York City Police Department reported that De Niro-Rodriguez was found unconscious at 2:20 p.m. on Sunday at 55 Wall St. in Lower Manhattan and was pronounced dead at the scene. The exact cause of death is still unknown, and the office of the Chief Medical Examiner could not be …

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Father kills infant daughter with crossbow

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On Monday morning, Patrick D. Proefriedt, 26, got into an altercation with his wife inside their home in Town of Colesville, leading him to fire a broadhead crossbow bolt that struck the couple’s three-week-old daughter in the upper torso and then his wife in the chest. Proefriedt then tried to remove the bolt before attempting to stop his wife from calling the police. He fled the scene in a 2016 Dodge Ram pickup truck, and …

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Annoyed custodian shuts down laboratory freezers destroying at least 2 decades of research

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The Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute laboratory in Troy, New York reported that a janitor working in the lab was frustrated by an incessant beeping and flipped a switch in an attempt to silence it. However, this action had a much bigger consequence, as it resulted in the shutdown of a storage freezer, consequently destroying decades of scientific work. This carelessness is estimated to have caused at least $1 million worth of damage, and has led to …

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8-year-old’s lemonade stand robbed by “shady” teens

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Julian Lin, an 8-year-old budding entrepreneur, had to learn a hard lesson last weekend when two teenagers allegedly stole the money jar from his lemonade stand in New York City. Sunday afternoon, Julian, who already calls himself Julian Business Man, was working hard to make a few dollars, just like many small business owners do every day. He had been at his stand at the corner of West 70th Street and Columbus Avenue for about …

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Man allegedly attacks teen over a baseball

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A resident of Long Island has been taken into custody for allegedly attacking a teen over a baseball. The incident was caught on camera, showing the young person reacting in shock to the sudden attack. Andrew Chiaro, 36, was arrested on May 25 and charged with endangering a minor’s welfare and misdemeanor assault for the incident that took place on May 21, as reported by CBS News. 15-year-old Trent Rounsvall recalled that he and his …

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