For several years now, Prospect Park workers and patrons have traded stories about an elusive "ghost dog" who lived on the park on his own. After four years, that "Ghost Dog" has now been apprehended—and she's a 109-pound brown and black Cane Corso who looks a bit like a small cow, according to Patch. “Part of me didn’t want to catch him. Part of me felt he was happy where he was, and he was living a nicer life than we could have provided for him," said Sean Casey, who runs Sean Casey Animal Rescue in Kensington. “But at the same time I knew that at some point that would come to an end, and he would need to be brought in.” more ›

A motorcyclist was killed yesterday after getting hit by an ambulance racing to a call in Brooklyn. Jesus Santiago, a 46-year-old father of three, was struck by the ambulance at 63rd Street near Fourth Avenue in Sunset Park around 6:20 p.m. Saturday. Witness Damaris Baez told the Daily News that the ambulance appeared to run a red light as it hit Santiago: “They were speeding and they beeped the horn but it was too late.” more ›

Yesterday, Bedford-Stuyvesant Preparatory High School principal Darryl Rascoe vowed to hand out condoms on prom night because it would be "practical and it’s the right thing to do.” But on second thought, maybe it wouldn't be that right: in the wake of controversy, Roscoe has backed down on his plan. "I don't want to do anything against DOE policy," he told ABC. more ›

The police have released an image of a man who allegedly tried to rape a woman yesterday in the 72nd Precinct, which covers Sunset Park and Windsor Terrace. more ›

A Brooklyn high school is planning to distribute condoms at prom next month, which has sparked a classic debate: does giving condoms to kids mean you're encouraging them to have sex? The school's principal doesn't think so: “This is necessary,” Bedford-Stuyvesant Preparatory High School principal Darryl Rascoe told the Daily News. “It’s practical and it’s the right thing to do.” more ›

With concerns about a pervert who followed then fondled a woman walking on south Park Slope street, the police have released two additional videos of the man suspect in the May 23 attack. more ›

We already knew that the Barclays Center over at the Atlantic Yards was going to have half the parking it originally promised, but yesterday officials came together to try and explain why that is actually a good thing. And also to talk bike parking, animal marches and the not-surprising death of the dream of "Netrocards." more ›

[UPDATE BELOW] The artist who installed the "I Love NY" bag that caused a bomb scare in Williamsburg on Friday has finally been released from jail. After three days at Rikers, Takeshi Miyakawa finally appeared before a judge in Brooklyn court today. Before releasing the suspect, Judge William Garnett called his lawyer and the prosecutor to the bench and spoke about the previous judge's decision to jail Miyakawa for 30 days for a mental health evaluation. "Some people might call it a little bizarre," Judge Garnett was overheard telling the attorneys, referring to Miyakawa's art installations. "And my colleague's decision is arguable." more ›

A man who pushed a police officer to his death off a 9-foot balcony last year was sentenced to 28.5 years to life in prison today. "The fact of the matter is I didn't push your son, all right?" George Villanueva told the parents of decorated Officer Alain Schaberger in court. According to the Daily News, Villanueva added, "Do the math. I'm not going to turn a simple domestic thing with my girlfriend into a murder case. My deepest condolences go out to you guys." more ›

The two men who got into a Monday night shootout at the Rugged Sole store on Utica Avenue—wounding a 12-year-old boy and a 33-year-old man—have been identified. The store's guard, Kenneth Meeks, 45, was arrested after the shooting and charged with assault, criminal possession of a weapon (firearm) and reckless endangerment while Gerald Spears, 23, turned himself in last night. more ›

Is Jay-Z bringing all the big names to Brooklyn? Barclays Center has been announcing some major concert headliners (Leonard Cohen, Babs), with the latest being Justin Bieber, who will be performing his first big Brooklyn concert there in November. Better watch your back, Madison Square Garden. more ›

Right now you can show your support by spreading the word and "liking" the Facebook page. And no disrespect to pharmaceutical pioneer Dr. Edward Robinson Squibb, who the park is currently named for... but he hailed from Delaware and probably never skateboarded a day in his life. more ›

Teenagers: When they're not lobbing bricks at cyclists or jumping onto subway tracks to play chicken with oncoming trains, they're firing freaking darts at pedestrians with blowguns. Yesterday residents of Bensonhurst and Bath Beach were on edge after several pedestrians were hit with three-inch long darts. Now police say they've caught one of the culprits, who allegedly fired the darts at random passers-by from an apartment window. more ›

A 12-year-old boy was inside a sneaker store with his father last night when a violent confrontation erupted between a Rugged Sole employee and another man. According to the store's owner, surveillance video shows the employee, apparently a security worker, pulling out a gun after an armed man showed his gun. Sang Han told the Daily News, "They both had guns and the boy got caught in the crossfire. The kid was just an innocent bystander." more ›

An online petition and a Facebook page have been started to "demand justice" from the City of New York over the arrest of artist and designer Takeshi Miyakawa, who was arrested by police early Saturday morning for planting false bombs. more ›

An NYPD sergeant was captured on video profanely berating a 21-year-old man in a Chinese restaurant in Kensington. "My dick will go in your mouth and come out your ear," Sergeant Lesly Charles says. "I have the long dick. You don't." According to the Post, which obtained the video from the man, it was an illegally parked car that got the well-endowed officer so aroused. more ›

Yesterday, the hipster capital of North America was under siege after someone called in a report of a suspicious package on Bedford Avenue between North Fourth and North Seventh Streets in Williamsburg. NYPD and FDNY descended on the area only to discover that the suspicious package was nothing more than a plastic bag. Now, the person who originally called in the scare explained to us why he did so: "I even said to the cops when they came: it's Williamsburg, so it's probably some stupid street-art project. The fact is, though, if something like that was taped to a column on a subway platform, they would have cleared out/shut down the entire system to investigate." more ›

I loathe mourning celebrity but this one is just so unexpected." more ›

Two people were arrested at a protest last night in South Williamsburg, outside a fundraiser for an alleged child molester. Nechemya Weberman is accused of sexually abusing a girl over the course of four years, starting when she was 12 years old—she's now 18, but she claims that when Weberman was her therapist he forced her to perform oral sex and other acts. Weberman belongs to the tight-knit ultra-Orthodox Jewish community in South Williamsburg, and many of his neighbors are donating money to his legal defense, which has outraged others. more ›

Brooklyn Heights residents may be holding their breath: The Post reports that a developer whom the Public Advocate has called a "slumlord" has confirmed that he bought the Hotel Bossert, which is for Jehovah's Witnesses members, on Montague Street: "He declined to reveal the purchase price but said the building’s original façade would be preserved and that he plans to have it running as a hotel again by 2014, pending city approval." more ›

The Barclays Center is getting ever closer. Not only is Babs is going to play the joint but so is Jay-Z and Leonard Cohen. The Nets are really coming this fall. Oh, and, as they promised in 2009, the MTA has started renaming the Atlantic Avenue station after the arena. Well, after its sponsor. more ›