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Girl Plunges to Death While Hopping Rooftops in Manhattan: Police
A 15-year-old Manhattan girl died in a fall while jumping across rooftops with friends Friday, law enforcement sources say.
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223 Arrested on Second Day of Garner Protests: NYPD
Police say 223 demonstrators were arrested Thursday night as protests of the Staten Island grand jury’s decision not to indict an NYPD officer in the chokehold death of Eric Garner stretched into a second night, police said.
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Thousands of Garner Protesters March Across NYC
Thousands of people lay down in streets, blocked bridges and cut off tunnels in a second day of protests in response to a Staten Island grand jury’s decision not to indict an NYPD officer in the chokehold death of Eric Garner, the 43-year-old father of six captured on amateur video saying, “I can’t breathe!” during an altercation with...
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Officials Urge Calm as CDC Confirms Positive Ebola Test for NYC Doctor Back From Africa
Top city officials tried to tamp down New Yorkers’ fears Friday after a doctor who recently returned from West Africa, where he was treating Ebola patients for Doctors Without Borders, tested positive for the deadly virus, saying the city is “fully prepared” to handle the disease.
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NYC Doctor Back from Africa Tests Positive for Ebola
A doctor who recently returned from West Africa, where he was on an Ebola assignment for Doctors Without Borders, has tested positive for Ebola at Bellevue Hospital Center after reporting a fever and gastrointestinal symptoms, officials say.
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Connection to Missing Teen Probed After Body Parts Found in East River in Queens
Police are combing the East River and Queens shoreline after a human arm, a torso and pair of legs were found just southwest of the Bronx-Whitestone Bridge, and the family of a missing teenager has been contacted as part of the investigation. Authorities reached out to the family of missing Queens teenager Avonte Oquendo after some clothing was also found,...
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Two Workers Rescued from Scaffold Dangling Atop Hearst Tower
Two maintenance workers trapped on a broken scaffold dangling outside the top of the 46-story Hearst Tower were pulled to safety in dramatic fashion Wednesday afternoon.
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Deadly SoHo Arson Blaze May Have Started as Several Small Fires: Source
A man accused of intentionally starting a deadly five-alarm fire inside a SoHo apartment building after a domestic dispute with his child’s mother may have lit several small fires in the hallway and apartment that eventually spread, NBC 4 New York has learned.
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Crash Ferry Captain Said Thrust Controls Failed: NTSB
The captain of the commuter ferry that crashed into a Wall Street pier during the morning rush Wednesday, injuring more than 70 people, told investigators that its thrust controls were not responding properly just before impact, officials said Thursday.
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Ferry Crashes in Lower Manhattan, More Than 70 Injured
A rush hour commuter ferry with more than 320 passengers aboard crashed Wednesday as it approached a Wall Street pier, knocking riders off their feet and down stairwells, injuring more than 70 people, police said. Two people were critically hurt — one with a head injury. Nine were serious, 17 were guarded and dozens more were minor. No passengers were...
