Award-winning journalist Katherine Creag reports for NBC 4 New York’s award-winning weekday newscast “Today in New York” that airs from 4:30 a.m. to 7 a.m. and again for News 4 at 11 a.m.
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Annual memorial honors slain NYPD cop, a mom of 3, killed six years ago
The 6th annual memorial for an NYPD officer who was shot and killed while sitting inside her police vehicle in 2017 will take place in the Bronx Wednesday.
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8 Rescued After Water Main Break Floods NYC Expressway, Stranding Cars
Eight people had to be rescued early Thursday after a 48-inch water main broke, completely flooding the Cross Bronx Expressway and stranding vehicles. The FDNY says it received a call around 3 a.m. about the flood near Jerome Avenue and West 175th Street. Seven cars were stranded in the Morris Heights section of the Bronx and commuters inside were escorted…
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Cop Fires 7x at Gunman Who Taps on Car Window Minutes After He Signs Off Work: Source
An NYPD officer who had just gotten into his car after signing off work in Brooklyn early Wednesday fired seven shots at a man with a gun who tapped on his window before he could pull out of the parking lot, officials and a senior NYPD official with knowledge of the investigation tell News 4. Police officials initially had said…
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NYPD Cops With Riot Shields Clear Out City Hall Protest Encampment Overnight
Nearly a month after protesters started camping out outside New York City Hall to call for defunding of the police department, uniformed officers with riot shields moved in to clear out tents and people early Wednesday in a planned operation. Lines of officers in heavy gear were seen at Lafayette Street and Leonard near the criminal courthouses. Some were telling…
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2 Arrested in NYC Shootings That Injured 7-Year-Old Girl, Left Young Woman Dead
New York City police say they have the suspects in custody responsible for two separate shootings that occurred hours apart in Manhattan last week. In the shootings, a 19-year-old woman was killed and a 7-year-old girl, as well as a 19-year-old man, were wounded. Three other people were also shot overnight in the Bronx, part of total victims in a…
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7-Year-Old NYC Girl Among 8 Shot in 24 Hours as Gun Violence Soars; Young Woman Dies
In two separate shootings that happened hours apart in Manhattan, a 19-year-old woman was killed and a 7-year-old girl, as well as a 19-year-old man, were wounded. Three other people were also shot overnight in the Bronx, part of total victims in a 24-hour span. Police say the deadly shooting of 19-year-old Erica Lopez occurred along Fifth Avenue near 27th…
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‘Hero' Train Conductor Dead, 16 Hurt in NYC Subway Fire; Blaze Probed as Suspicious: Officials
At least one man died and several other people suffered life-threatening injuries when a fire broke out inside an underground subway station in Manhattan early Friday, authorities say. An apparent emotionally disturbed person is being questioned by investigators in connection with the fire, two senior law enforcement officials said. It is too soon to say if the fire was a…
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MTA Conductor Hospitalized After Attack in Brooklyn: NYPD Sources
An MTA conductor was punched in the face and fell on his head Wednesday night, police sources tell NBC New York. A man was allegedly holding the 2 train doors open at the Beverly Road and Nostrand Avenue station in Brooklyn and the 26-year-old employee went to confront him, the sources said. A verbal dispute between them then turned violent…
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Livery Cab Passenger Critically Hurt in Hit-and-Run: NYPD
A 62-year-old woman was critically hurt when a hit-and-run driver crashed into the livery cab she was riding in, police said. The driver was traveling west in an Acura on East 129th Street in East Harlem around 1 a.m. on Monday when he hit the livery cab, which was headed north on Park Avenue, the NYPD said. The Acura driver,…
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Man Who Stabbed Wife to Death in NYC Salon Gets 25 Years in Prison
A Queens man who pleaded guilty to stabbing his estranged wife to death in a city nail salon as horrified patrons watched earlier this year has been sentenced to prison. William Rivas, a 39-year-old from Corona, received a 25-year sentence Thursday for repeatedly stabbing 35-year-old Carmen Iris Santiago in the Tu S’tilo Salon Spa in Jackson Heights on Aug. 7,…
