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A Bronx man was sentenced to 20 years in prison for the 1999 stabbing death of his upstairs neighbor, prosecutors said. Bronx District Attorney Darcel D. Clark announced Tuesday that Curtis Batchelor, 44, was sentenced to 20 years in prison and five years’ post-release supervision. Batchelor pleaded guilty to first-degree manslaughter on Feb. 27. “More than two decades have passed…

A 25-year-old Brooklyn woman fell to her death while rock climbing over the weekend, New York State Police said. Lauren Sobel was climbing in the area of the Trapps Trailhead at the Mohonk Mountain Preserve in Gardiner, about 60 miles north of New York City, at about 3:30 p.m. on Sunday. Police said Sobel was the lead climber in a…

Man sitting in the passenger side of van in Queens has died after massive tree uprooted and fell onto the vehicle as Tropical Storm Isaias makes its way through the tri-state area. Myles Miller reports.

A teenage girl found shot and wounded in a northern New Jersey city has died from her injuries, authorities said. Jersey City police responding to reports of shots fired around 10:30 p.m. Monday found Tyeah Garner, 17, with gunshot wounds to her upper body, Hudson County Prosecutor Esther Suarez said. Garner was taken to a hospital but died there early…

A New York City man has been sentenced to life in prison without possibility of parole in the beating death of his girlfriend outside her Pennsylvania home more than three years ago. Edia Lawrence, 21, was convicted in March of second-degree murder, robbery, burglary and related crimes in the March 2017 death of 19-year-old Ahshantianna Johnson in Mount Wolf. During…

A mother and grandfather who drowned in their backyard pool in New Jersey a week ago were trying to rescue an 8-year-old girl who had fallen in, police said.

Families of men killed at the hands of police, joined forces to talk about how to end police violence and systemic racism. Erica Byfield reports.

A year ago, Maria Kuhnla was found strangled to death at Club Med in Turks and Caicos while on vacation with coworkers. Now, her family has filed a lawsuit against the resort. Sarah Wallace reports.

Violent protest strike Minneapolis after the death of George Floyd. Erica Byfield reports.

A 24 year-old man has died after he was pulled from the water at Rockaway beach. Two others were with him, but are expected to be ok..

Combined deaths from alcohol, drugs and suicide in the U.S. plateaued in 2018 for the first time in two decades, according to a report published Thursday.

After a fire broke out at a New York City apartment building, the NYPD found a man stabbed to death inside. Adam Harding reports.

A federal report says Baseball Hall of Famer Roy Halladay had drugs in his system and was doing extreme acrobatics in his small plane when it crashed into Tampa Bay in 2017, killing him.

A woman fatally beat her male roommate with a tape dispenser, a shower rod and other items during a dispute inside their southern New Jersey home last month, authorities said. Mary Carbone, 56, was charged Wednesday with murder and four weapons offenses, according to the Ocean County Prosecutor’s Office. It wasn’t known Thursday if she has retained an attorney....

The family of a New York inmate who killed himself at an upstate prison is suing over his death, saying officials beat the man and ignored warning signs that put him at a heightened suicide risk. Dante Taylor killed himself in an infirmary cell at Wende Correctional Facility in October 2017. The lawsuit, filed in federal court Monday, argues the…

A judge has imposed a 42-year sentence on the first of four defendants to stand trial in the death of a 9-year-old girl hit by a stray bullet as she slept in her bed in her New Jersey home. The Cumberland County judge on Friday imposed a 25-year term for an aggravated manslaughter conviction and a consecutive 17-year term on…

The DA said that while he was not in the office at the time of Blanchard Glaudin’s December arrest for a rape that occurred the month before, he would instruct his team to review the case thoroughly

The suspect in the stabbing of a security officer at the Spring Valley library has been charged with second-degree murder after the woman told him to turn his music down, authorities said. NBC New York’s Ken Buffa reports.

The Spring Valley community has come together to remember a library security guard killed just days ago, as the district attorney launches an investigation into why the suspect was free after a recent arrest for sex attack. NBC New York’s Gilma Avalos reports.

The DA said that while he was not in the office at the time of Blanchard Glaudin’s December arrest for a rape that occurred the month before, he would instruct his team to review the case thoroughly