Jamaica

Grant Holloway of Team USA finished second in the men’s 110-meter hurdles in a race that saw Jamaica’s Hansle Parchment stun the world champion. Hansle won the race with a time of 13.04, and Holloway finished in 13:09. Ronald Levy of Jamaica took home the bronze and American Devon Allen came 4th. Holloway, the overwhelming favorite, led the race for…

Jamaica knows a thing or two about producing the world’s fastest athletes. Usain Bolt is the first name to come to mind, but Elaine Thompson-Herah is continuing her dominance in the first Olympics without Bolt since 2000. Thompson-Herah arrived at the 2016 Rio Olympics and won gold at the women’s 100m and 200m finals, the first Jamaican woman to do…

Jamaica’s Elaine Thompson-Herah won the women’s 100m final Saturday, breaking at 33-year old record in the process.

Eight-time Olympic gold medalist Usain Bolt on how he gets into the right mindset for a race.

Travelers often unknowingly violate local protocols. Experts say these are the worst tourist offenses they see on their home turfs.

A Georgia man has been arrested on rape, kidnapping and other charges in a New York City sex attack that happened nearly 18 months earlier, police say. Rony Lopez Alvarez, a 38-year-old from Clayton County, also is accused of criminal sexual act, sex abuse and robbery in the January 2020 attack on a then-27-year-old woman in Queens. He was arrested…

A driver in Queens suffered serious head injuries after he took a glass bottle to the head in an early morning assault over the weekend, police said. The 41-year-old man and vehicle-for-hire driver was reportedly disputing with a group of men over the capacity limits of his car when they attacked, police said. It was nearly 20 minutes after midnight…

A Queens family says it’s traumatized after the NYPD rammed down their front door in a no-knock warrant raid. Seven people, including a toddler, were at the Jamaica home last month when officers broke the door in and stormed the house. Homeowner Tijuana Brown says the family had no idea what was happening and the whole incident has left...

A Queens woman said that her family is traumatized and her home damaged after the NYPD busted down their door in a no-knock raid, which only resulted in minor marijuana charges that were later dismissed. NBC New York’s Greg Cergol reports.

The robbers showed up carrying flowers, dressed as florists who said they had a delivery, but the men ended up taking thousands in cash and jewels from a Jamaica home. NBC New York’s Myles Miller reports.

Robbers showed up to a Queens home carrying flowers and disguised as florists making a delivery — and would end up leaving with a lot more than what they arrived with.

A woman and a young girl were killed after an out-of-control SUV hopped a curb in Queens and barreled into them while they were on the sidewalk, police said. The incident occurred around 5:30 p.m. at the corner of Jamaica Avenue and 164th Street in Jamaica, according to police, as the sidewalks were littered with children walking along the busy…

The driver of the black SUV appeared to lose control of the vehicle as it approached the intersection in Jamaica, and it jumped the curb before fatally striking two people, a woman and a young girl. NBC New York’s Checkey Beckford reports.

At least one adult and a child were injured after being struck by a vehicle while on a Queens sidewalk.

President Donald Trump and Joe Biden are entering the final stretch of the campaign in a fierce battle for Latino voters who could sway the results in Florida and determine who wins the White House. But in this ultimate battleground state where nearly 10 million voters participate in elections often decided by a mere percentage point, other communities could suddenly…

A disturbing video released by the NYPD on Monday shows a customer in a deli simply pouring coffee before a man stabbed him in the neck. Police say they’re searching for that man who then went on to stab a 67-year-old employee at the MSK Deli on 164th Street in Queens on Saturday, which remains shuttered more than 48 hours…

NBC New York’s Checkey Beckford reports.

A radical Islamic cleric has been extradited to New York City on charges he recruited followers and fighters for the Islamic State through fiery online lectures and militant propaganda, prosecutors said Friday. Abdullah al-Faisal, who had been behind bars in Jamaica, pleaded not guilty in Manhattan state court to charges including conspiracy and supporting terrorism. The Manhattan district attorney, Cyrus…

A 64-year-old homeless man has been sentenced to five years in prison after pleading guilty to luring a 3-year-old boy with a balloon and sexually abusing him in 2019 and then abusing an 8-year-old girl in a Queens mall when he was released on bail two months later, prosecutors say. Luis Olivo, whose last known address was a shelter in…

A 35-year-old woman died in a fire at a NYCHA building in Queens early Saturday, the NYPD said.  Firefighters responding to a report of a fire at a South Jamaica Houses building on 159th Street in Jamaica around 12:40 a.m. on Saturday found the woman unconscious and unresponsive inside a second-floor apartment, police said.  The woman was pronounced dead...