The baby found in a Brooklyn garbage chute on Saturday night may have been there for as long as twelve hours, according to a Brooklyn Hospital doctor who examined him. That depressing news comes as the infant's mother, 18-year-old Laquasia Wright, was ordered held on $100,000 bail on attempted murder charges for allegedly dropping the newborn eight-stories down a trash chute. more ›

Firefighters were able to rescue a woman who was stuck in a garbage chute in a SUNY Downstate building on Lenox Road in Brooklyn. A firefighter told WABC 7, "This is a very unusual circumstance. You're not used to finding a person, let alone, a full grown lady, trapped in a compactor chute." more ›

Little is publicly known about 34-year-old Ashish Shah of Jersey City at this time, but police say his life ended Sunday morning in the trash compactor of The Olivia, a luxury apartment building near Penn Station. A building employee tells the Post that for the second time in as many days, Shah had arrived outside The Olivia in a taxi and ran inside without paying. Police believe Shah had been "drinking for several hours" before his death, and It's unclear who, if anyone, Shah knew in the building. But just before 6 a.m. he was observed dashing past the doorman to the elevators. Cops say he took an elevator to the 36th-floor roof level, but after his attempt to get to the sun deck tripped an alarm, Shah took the stairs down to the 35th floor, where he somehow fell into a narrow garbage chute, plummeting to the garbage compactor 28 stories below. One resident tells the Daily News, "It's amazing that someone could fit in that hole." more ›