A home invasion turned violent earlier this morning, leaving an 82-year-old woman in Harlem battered and bloody. Around 11:30 a.m. police arrived at 139th Street where an elderly woman had recently come out of her home, bleeding from all over and begging for help. "She said there were two teenagers that tried to rob her," a plumber working on the block told the News. "She said they were robbing her, stabbing her everywhere—in the face, the head, the arms. It was bad, really bad." more ›

After being chocked into unconsciousness and robbed, we can't blame 85-year-old Lillian France for being pissed at the guy who attacked her. Cornelius Abson, who was caught on tape preying upon France in a Crown Heights elevator and arrested yesterday, confessed to police and apologized to France in a written letter, blaming it on his crack addiction. But France said, "How can he be sorry when I was the, I understand, the 12th victim?" more ›

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