A Bronx mom has been charged after her six-year-old son was given an accidental, lethal dose of methadone—which had been stored in a cold medicine bottle. Raquel DeLeon, 36, was charged Thursday with reckless endangerment in the death of Carlos Rios Jr. DeLeon, who has two prior drug arrests, told police she has a prescription for methadone, but it is unclear why she was storing it in the DayQuil bottle. "As soon as he got sick, he was dizzy, he got in a coma and he died," the boy's maternal grandmother, Letty Muentes, told CBS. more ›

Last December New York-based DJ Jonathan Toubin was injured in a freak accident while visiting Portland, Oregon. Toubin was asleep in his hotel room when a cab crashed through the wall and pinned him beneath the vehicle. He was in critical condition at Oregon Health and Science University Hospital in Portland—with fractures in his skull base, pelvis, collarbones, ribs, sternum, and many internal injuries including a punctured liver and crushed lungs; since the accident, benefits have been thrown for him. Now the New York Night Train DJ has spoken for the first time, to Rolling Stone. more ›

Early Saturday morning, 22 show horses were killed in a massive barn fire in northern New Jersey. Authorities say the fire, which they believe was an accident, broke out at the Heritage Acres farm in Lafayette; by the time firefighters arrived just before 2 a.m., the barn was already engulfed in flames. The owners, who did not have insurance, are devastated: "We’re just going to sell our property. It was our business and we’re too old to start over," 73-year-old Betty Hahn told the Star-Ledger. more ›

Last month, we reported the sad news that much-loved DJ Jonathan Toubin, known for his New York Night Train soul-music dance parties, was critically injured in a horrific freak accident in Portland, Oregon. Since then, dozens of shows in New York and a tour across the country have been launched to raise funds for Toubin, who remains hospitalized in Portland. Tomorrow night, the nationwide tour is coming to the Music Hall of Williamsburg, and it looks to be a doozy. more ›

The Madison Avenue building where a freak elevator accident occurred earlier this month—killing one person—is set to re-open in early January. On Dec. 14, Y&R ad executive Suzanne Hart was killed when the elevator at 285 Madison Avenue malfunctioned as she was stepping in, crushing her. The 26-story office tower, which is owned by Y&R's parent company WPP PLC, has been closed since then. But Y&R aren't coming back. more ›

A fire earlier today has shuttered the Tick Tock Diner in Midtown—and authorities believe it was caused by a discarded cigarette. The fire started in the facade of Tick Tock Diner, which is housed at 303 W. 34th Street in the New Yorker Hotel building, around 10:15 a.m. There was a packed house in the popular diner for Sunday brunch, and patrons didn't seem to mind a little smoke: "We seat 300 people and it was a Sunday morning, so people were waiting on line," waiter Steve Tsiolis told DNAInfo. "People kept eating. They didn't want to leave their food." more ›

Brooklyn-based DJ Jonathan Toubin, the host of the popular 45rpm rock-and-soul dance party New York Night Train, was critically injured yesterday in a horrific freak accident in Portland, Oregon, where he was visiting to spin a party. more ›

A 23-year-old editor of an online fashion magazine "accidentally walk[ed] too close to a small plane's propeller" and was seriously injured in McKinney, Texas. Lauren Scruggs' hand was severed and her head and shoulder were also hit. more ›

This weekend a Yale student struck three people, killing one, with a U-Haul at the Yale-Harvard Football game in New Haven and, though no charges have been filed, his lawyer is now trying to shift the blame to the vehicle. Meanwhile the victim's mom just wants her baby's body back. more ›

One woman was killed, and two others were injured after a U-Haul van crashed into a crowd tailgating before the Yale-Harvard Football game today. According to police, a 30-year-old Massachusetts woman was killed in the accident just after 10 a.m. this morning in a parking lot at Yale. Police spokesman David Hartman confirmed the other two female victims are hospitalized—one in critical but stable condition, and the other with minor injuries. Update: Watch video of the aftermath of the accident below. more ›

After Capital New York reported that Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver was injured when, while riding his bicycle, he hit a pothole and fell, his press office couldn't explain where the accident occurred (a woman who answered the phone said, "I assume it was New York City") although the powerful 67-year-old lawmaker sported a "stitches over his left eyebrow and a scab across his nose and the back of one of his hands." Now the mystery is out: Silver was brought down by a Puerto Rican pothole. more ›

Two people were killed in separate early morning crashes on the BQE and Van Wyck Parkway. A man driving a BMW had been speeding on the Van Wyck in Queens around 2:15 a.m.—he lost control of his car when he attempted to exit at Atlantic Ave., and ended up crashing into a tree in front of Jamaica Hospital. The car burst into flames, killing the driver. A witness told a nearby a Gourmet Deli cashier that "he saw him doing about 80 on the freeway as he was passing by him. He said he didn't even slow down when he came off the ramp, then he hit the tree.” more ›

A six-month-old baby died yesterday after receiving accidental overdose of antibiotics at a Brooklyn hospital yesterday. "We love this baby. Oh, my God. It's just so messed up. His life was over in a second. I just can't believe it," cousin and caretaker Jhora Akther told the News. more ›

Anderson Cooper is at the center of a tragedy this week, after Gawker reported that one of the guests scheduled for an upcoming episode of his show fell into a coma following a skateboarding accident—that one of Cooper's producers told him to film. more ›

New York elevators are dangerous places to be this week. An elevator technician in his 50s fell 10 stories down an elevator shaft to his death morning in Midtown office building, according to the FDNY. The man had been working on an elevator in the 17-story Bricken Arcade building on 38th and Seventh when the accident occurred a little before 10:30 a.m. more ›

[UPDATE BELOW] The FDNY accidentally dropped a car on a City College student it was trying to save earlier today, according to the NY Post. Karam Rampersaud, a 21-year-old student at City College, was on his way to class at about 8:45 a.m. this morning, when a Ford Taurus hit his Kawasaki Ninja motorcycle, pinning him underneath the car. more ›

More details have emerged about the gruesome crash on Staten Island that left one dead and several brutally injured. Brian Pittsley, the 25-year-old driver of the SUV that sped through a stop sign, causing the tragedy, claims that it was his car's fault. more ›

A little before 10 pm last night, police say a 25-year-old man driving a Chevrolet Suburban blew through a stop sign on Staten Island, which resulted in the SUV being hit from behind, killing one of the passengers and injuring seven others. more ›

Yesterday morning a 67-year-old roller blading Upper West Side woman was run over by an M42 bus at the intersection of 43rd Street and the Hudson River greenway and now it seems she did not have the right of way. more ›

Officials have found the body of a veteran NYPD officer who went missing Friday after a kayaking accident on Long Island. Police picked up officer Patrick Luca's five-year-old son floating in Long Island's Nissequogue River yesterday after the accident; and following a long search, they found Luca today, about a mile from where he was last seen. more ›

A passenger of the SUV that was reportedly going 112 mph before careening off the FDR at E. 23rd street in Kips Bay early Saturday morning has had a leg amputated, and the driver, 38-year-old Eric Bryant lost an ear. Miraculously, all 8 people involved survived, including the 23-year-old cabbie, Atif Raza, whose car broke the Land Rover's fall. "It felt like an earthquake," Raza tells the Post, "I'm happy to be alive. I'm getting a second chance…I'm really going to be going to the mosque now." more ›

The Land Rover SUV carrying 7 people that flew off the FDR and onto a taxi cab at E. 23rd street in Kips Bay may have been "doing about 112 mph." According to the Daily News' police sources, the driver was speeding and lost control, sending the vehicle over the elevated roadway and onto cabbie Atif Raza, who has only been driving a taxi for three months. "I couldn't believe it," a witness tells the paper, "I was actually seeing a car come off the divider and flip. It was flying." All eight people involved in the accident were injured, but only two critically, and one woman even "walked away" from the wreckage. more ›

An unidentified woman's right arm and left hand were partially severed after she fell on the tracks and was hit by southbound F train at the Second Ave/Houston St stop earlier today. The incident occurred around 11:30 this morning and suspended all F train service between Essex Street and Continental for nearly an hour. more ›

An early-morning accident in Newark left a pedestrian dead after being pinned beneath a car, severing both of his legs, and two women have been arrested in conjunction with the crash, which authorities say may have been alcohol-related. more ›

Police say that a Brooklyn teen who was fatally hit by a car last night was biking against the light. According to authorities, 16-year-old Aileen Chen allegedly wasn't wearing a helmet, but was wearing headphones, when she was struck by a 26-year-old BMW driver at 62nd Street and 21st Avenue around 6 p.m. "There was blood all over her face," witness Gabriella Castalano told the Post. more ›