An off duty Bronx cop was arrested and charged with a DWI after a car crash yesterday that left his partner in a medically-induced coma. Officer Rafael Casiano was driving his personal vehicle on the Bronx River Parkway near the Cross Bronx Expressway around 4:30 p.m when his car skidded, hit a divider, and flipped. 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 ›

In February of last year a 22-year-old Bloomberg aide, Erinn Phelan, was struck by a 1993 Acura Legend after pushing a friend out of the car's path. Phelan remains in a vegetative state but today, at least, her family saw some justice served against the woman who was driving the Acura, 30-year-old Frances Jasmin. "You must be punished in the most-severe way, but it hardly seems adequate," Brooklyn Supreme Court Justice Joseph McKay said before imposing the maximum sentence of 1 1/3 to four years behind bars for the class D felony of leaving the scene of an accident. The judge also recommended that her driver's license be revoked forever. more ›

A diabetic woman who was caught smoking pot in the Lower East Side has won a $125K settlement from the city because police refused to let her administer insulin after her blood sugar rose to dangerous levels in lockup. Cops at the Seventh Precinct confiscated 30 year-old Jaime Rutkowski's glucose meter and her insulin, and only called EMTs after her blood sugar rose higher than three times the normal level. "Any endocrinologist will confirm that this is enough for a Type-1 diabetic to go into shock, slip into a coma, and die," her attorney tells the Post. Rutkowski was treated at Bellevue for the October incident, and discharged from police custody. more ›

The man who punched a woman over a parking space argument, putting her into a coma, made bail yesterday. Queens electrician Oscar Fuller, who has been previously arrested for assault and drug possession, posted the $100,000 bail to get out of jail for now. But some politicians think defendants like Fuller are too dangerous to be allowed out on bail. more ›

Yesterday, we heard the grisly story of parking space rage gone too far: petite Bronx woman Lana Rosas ended up in a coma after a vicious confrontation with electrician Oscar Fuller over a parking spot. Rosas was holding the space on East 14th Street for her boyfriend, and refused to let Fuller park his van; the argument escalated, and Fuller punched Rosas "in the face with so much force that the woman flew off her feet," according to court papers. But in court yesterday, Fuller's lawyer argued that he was just acting in self-defense: "There is nothing to suggest my client intended to inflict serious injury. At most, the charge should be misdemeanor assault." more ›

A Bronx woman who was standing in a parking space on East 14th Street in order to save the spot for her boyfriend is now in a coma after an argument over parking turned violent. Police tell the Post electrician Oscar Fuller became unhinged last Friday night around 11:40 p.m. when Lana Rosas, a petite 25-year-old, refused to let him park his white minivan in the space. The argument escalated, and Fuller punched Rosas "in the face with so much force that the woman flew off her feet," according to court papers. Now she's got permanent brain damage. more ›

The family of deliveryman Tian Sheng Lin, who has been declared brain dead after being struck by a texting teenage driver, says they're not ready to take him off life support yet. His daughter told ABC 7, "I hope he could wake-up because we still need him." But the family's lawyer, whom they hired to sue 19-year-old driver Nechama Rothberger, says the situation looks grim. He told the Daily News, "It would take a miracle, but the family is still hoping for recovery." Though it's no comfort for Lin's family, there is hope that the incident may motivate legislators to enact harsher punishments for drivers too busy texting to pay attention to the road. more ›

A Brooklyn prosecutor revealed that the City Hall staffer who was struck during a Brooklyn hit-and-run in February is likely to die within the next two months. Assistant DA Gayle Dampf said, "Her family and I hoped that Erinn might pull through, but that might have been false hope." more ›

A York College student is in a coma after falling from his roof while trying to escape robbers on Saturday. Harry Martinez allegedly returned to his parents' Bushwick apartment early Saturday morning, where the thugs chased him up to the roof. Though he called 911 from the roof, he either fell or was pushed off before police could reach the scene. He landed in the backyard on concrete. One neighbor told the Post, "I saw him lying down and blood was coming out of his mouth." more ›

A Rutgers pre-law student who was vacationing in Cancun is in a coma today under mysterious circumstances after sustaining brutal head injuries there. Joseph "Zeke" Rucker, 21, went on the trip to Mexico with friends two weeks ago to celebrate his graduation from Rutgers undergrad. more ›

In Serbia, prosecutors have finally caught up with and charged the former Binghamton basketball player accused of beating a fellow student into a coma. In 2008 Miladin Kovacevic jumped bail and fled for his home country after getting into a fight with Brian Steinhauer at an upstate bar. The towering 23-year-old is accused of kicking the student, causing skull fractures and severe brain damage. more ›

The 43-year-old rapper Guru, of Gang Starr fame, reportedly suffered a massive heart attack in New York City over the weekend and has been left in a coma since. He will undergo surgery today. more ›

Two men have been sentenced to two years in prison each for participating in a brutal beating that left a Binghamton University student in a coma and damaged relations between the United States and Serbia. Edin Dzubar, 25, and Sanel Softic, 22, apologized and pleaded guilty to felony assault for kicking Bryan Steinhauer during a Binghamton bar in May 2008 that left the Brooklyn-native in a coma for months, according to the Post. Their sentencing comes after the alleged primary assailant, 23-year-old basketball player Miladin Kovacevic, fled to Serbia to avoid trial in the United States. The Serbian government paid the victim's family $900,000 in a deal to prosecute Kovacevic in his home country. more ›

Detectives from the 88th Precinct have arrested a 16-year-old boy in connection with last week’s assault on Eddy Sanchez, a 22-year-old Pratt architecture student who is still in critical condition in a medically induced coma at Kings County Hospital Center. The suspect, Eugene Adams, is charged with assault, robbery and criminal possession of stolen property. A police source tells The Local Adams resides at 1100 Bedford Avenue in Bedford-Stuyvesant, three long blocks east from the site of the August 4th attack at Grand and Lexington Avenues in Clinton Hill. After releasing surveillance footage of teens attempting to use Sanchez's ATM card at a bodega, police tracked down Adams through a tip called in to the Crime-Stoppers hot line, (800) 577-TIPS. According to ABC News, as many as four other teens may have been involved in the attack, but no other arrests were immediately made. It's being reported that the suspects beat Sanchez after he refused to give them money, and one of the assailants used a crowbar. more ›

Last week, a 22-year-old Pratt student was robbed and brutally beaten at Grand and Lexington Avenues in Brooklyn's Clinton Hill section. Eddy Sanchez had been walking towards to the Pratt campus around 10 p.m. last Tuesday night when, WCBS 2 reports, five teens surrounded him—"They demanded money, and when Sanchez initially refused, the suspects punched and kicked him into submission, and took what they wanted." The Daily News adds that one teen used a crowbar to beat him when he tried to fight back. Now Sanchez is in a coma at Kings County Hospital. more ›

With his family keeping vigil at the hospital, 33-year-old man remains in a coma after being struck by a tree branch in Central Park yesterday morning. An uncle of Sasha Blair-Goldensohn, an Upper West Side resident and an engineer at Google, told the Daily News, "I'm not worried about Sasha because he has IQ to spare... He hasn't really woken up. He's young and healthy, we're hopeful." more ›

If there is any way to garner more sympathy and further prove yourself an unfair victim for the monstrous college athlete who put you into a coma after a bar fight eleven months ago, it's ending your first press conference by tossing up the Vulcan salute. Today was the first public appearance by Bryan Steinhauer, the 22-year-old Brooklyn native who was brutally beaten by his Binghamton classmate Miladin Kovacevic, the Serbian basketball player nearly twice his size. The Daily News describes his words as "emerging slowly and heavily slurred," as seen in the video below from MyFoxNY. more ›

A man who is a stock broker by day and cab driver by night is in a coma for the third consecutive day after being brutally beaten up at a Harlem gas station Saturday night. Bekoe Adigun-Bomani was punched in the head at the BP gas station on West 125th Street by an assailant who drove off in a silver Nissan. A surveillance tape has been unable to assist police in tracking down a suspect. Adigun-Bomani's mother told NY1, "I can't bear to see my son laying there with tubes all over, fighting for his life. So, that person, whoever you are, we are going to find you. We won't give up because we are a strong family." The last few days have been a tragically unlucky stretch for the taxi industry with the livery cab driver in Staten Island killed in a hit-and-run and a cab dispatcher in the Bronx shot dead outside his apartment. more ›

A 41-year-old man was arrested in a hit-and-run incident that has left a 9-year-old girl in a coma. Saturday night, Nacirema Brown had run into Rockaway Avenue when a tan Nissan Maxima hit her. Witnesses told the girl's mother the driver got out of the car to yell, "You stupid little bitch!" before driving away. Police, who found the car on Park Place near Eastern Parkway, charged the suspect with leaving the scene of an accident. more ›

A lawyer for Miladin Kovacevic says that the 6'9" 260 lb. basketball player doesn't trust the U.S. legal system and was taunted and tortured by inmates and guards after he was arrested for allegedly beating a 135 lb. college senior into a coma in Binghamton last month. Veselin Cerovic explained that's why Kovacevic jumped bail and fled the country with an emergency passport issued by the Serbian consulate in New York, "My client told me that he did not flee to hide from justice, but because he doesn't believe in the American justice system." more ›

Carlos Zelayo is suing Madison Square Garden for continuing to serve a visibly drunk off-duty cop at a college basketball game, before the man left the arena and killed Zelayo's son and put his wife in a coma, from which she hasn't emerged. Kevin Freibott is the Jersey City cop currently serving an 11-year sentence for vehicular homicide. He killed two-year-old Jose Carlo Zelayo (pictured) on the Pulaski Skyway. more ›

A furniture-smashing fit by a grandfather angry with his son has left his six-month-old granddaughter in a coma and clinging to life after the club head struck her in the skull. McKinley Williams is the 52-year-old grandfather who was upset with his 22-year-old son. It is unclear what the Saturday afternoon argument was regarding , but Williams was smashing furniture with a golf club to punctuate his side of it, as the younger man's wife, Isabel Torres, and their daughter, Shariyah Stewart were in the room in an apartment in the Bronx. more ›

If you're a 67-year-old retired math professor from Montreal and your wife (in Canada) finds out about your near-death S&M-related experience in New York City from a NY Post reporter, what do you do? Well, if you're Richard Benjamin, you give the Post an exclusive interview, landing on the front page and earning the headline "They Beat it Out of Me." more ›