Some disturbing news from a Burger King in Jamaica, Queens: a mother allegedly abandoned her baby boy at the fast food chain, leaving him on a table just before 11 p.m. last night. more ›

A shooting broke out on a Q111 NYC Transit bus in Queens at around 4:04 p.m. today. The incident, at Parsons Boulevard and Archer Avenue, left one man dead at the scene and another wounded after being shot in the face. The shooter apparently just walked onto the bus and started firing. Police say he is in custody. more ›

The NYPD collected 164 guns at a buyback on Staten Island Saturday, but there's still a long way to go, as gunfire in Brooklyn and Queens over the weekend left three men dead and two people injured. The first murder occurred around 11 p.m. Saturday night in Sheepshead Bay, where a 27-year-old man named Avery Kelly was gunned down in the entrance of an apartment building at 2258 Batchelder Street, just down the block from his residence. Police sources tell the Daily News they recovered more than 25 shell casings in the hallway of the building, and no arrests have been made. more ›

And here we have video of a bull or a steer that escaped from a Queens slaughterhouse running along Liberty Avenue in Jamaica. Bystanders, including the YouTube user who took the video, laugh gleefully as the noble beast runs for its life, ultimately winding up trapped on the grounds of York College campus of the City University of New York. There it sought sanctuary in one of the buildings at the health and physical education complex but Fox 5 reports, "ended up hitting construction scaffolding that was set up around the buildings." more ›

A bodega worker on Brewer Boulevard in Jamaica was fatally shot on Friday night. Police say that the gunman tried to rob the Melani Grocery but ended up shooting employee Jorge Marte when the 65-year-old tried to run to the front door. more ›

A hoodie-clad gunman jumped out from behind a parked car and opened fire on a group of teenagers in Queens in an early-morning attack that left one dead and a suspect on the loose. more ›

A Queens fifth grader is more than a bit upset at his public school after the tip of his finger was ripped off by a swinging metal cafeteria door...and school officials couldn't find the missing bit. Ten-year-old Esau Gulley told the News that the incident happened on Monday at Public School 140 in Jamaica. "There was blood everywhere. I looked at it, and the top was gone," he said. more ›

On Mother's Day, police were called to an apartment in the Baisley Park Houses in Jamaica, Queens, where residents reported a domestic disturbance. But en route, the responding officers were sidetracked by a savage street fight that left 52-year-old Nikita White scarred for life. White was crossing Merrick Boulevard around 10 p.m. when 38-year-old Lovette Hill allegedly attacked her without provocation. "She just started charging at me," White tells CBS 2. "She lunged at me in the middle of the intersection with both fists." more ›

Police arrested 62 people in the past 24 hours as part of a massive undercover drug bust in Queens. Since last August, police have purchased (pdf) over $100,000 worth of crack cocaine, heroin, marijuana, oxycodone, ecstasy and BZP from the suspects, who range in age from 16 to 62, as part of "Operation Stampede." more ›

A Queens man who survived the infamous Sean Bell shooting is in trouble with the law again. Police sources tell the Post that Trent Benefield was "brazenly" smoking a marijuana-stuffed cigar, or "blunt," on a street in Jamaica yesterday afternoon when cops spotted him. But Benefield thought fast and swallowed the remaining contraband. Unfortunately, he then proceeded to stop thinking, reportedly telling the officers, "You have nothing on me, I ate it!" more ›

A fire that broke out last night at 6 p.m. in a Jamaica metal-works warehouse wasn't brought under control until 4:40 a.m. this morning. The eight-alarm fire in the one-story building at 95-20 150th Street was particularly stubborn, and a neighboring building was evacuated. Seven firefighters were injured; according to the AP, the FDNY said "three firefighters sustained burns, one to the face and head" and were taken to the hospital while the four other firefighters suffered less serious injuries. The Daily News adds that the ceiling collapsed on them and one firefighter had a back injury. more ›

This weekend, the MTA is embarking on its "LIRR Modernization Project Brings State of the Art Technology to Centralized Signaling and Switch Control at Jamaica," which means there will be very limited service between Jamaica and Penn Station this weekend and the weekend of November 6-7. The MTA recommends, "As a result of the extremely limited service, the LIRR recommends that customers use the LIRR for essential business travel only during these two weekends. Customers traveling for recreational purposes during this period should consider travel on the Port Washington Branch or other travel alternatives." Or, as the Post puts it, "It's the LIRR-arrrgh!" (LOL) more ›

After some speculation, Nicole Paultre Bell will run for Thomas White's City Council seat. She confirmed her decision to the Daily News and said of her fiancé Sean Bell's death during a fusillade of 51 police bullets hours before their wedding, "What happened to me four years ago - I didn't expect that to happen. This is what life threw my way. It made me realize that there are serious problems out there." more ›

Christopher "Dudus" Coke, the Jamaican accused of running drugs and weapons between New York and Jamaica, arrived at the Westchester County Airport yesterday. Since a manhunt for Coke claimed over 75 lives in Jamaica, there was a lot of security on hand. Coke eluded authorities for weeks, and when he was found, he was wearing a black wig under a fake Gucci hat and cops reportedly also found a pink wig in his car. A cop told the Jamaica Observer, "Maybe that is why he was able to stay in hiding for so long -- because people [were] looking for a man, but he was really a woman." more ›

The woman whose cousin was killed after defending her at a Queens nightclub spoke to WCBS 2 about the incident. Maurice Gordon, an off-duty customs officer, was fatally shot in the chest in front of his parents' home in the Jamaica section of Queens at 4 a.m. on Monday morning. Gordon's cousin Kerry Ann Daily said, "It really happened fast. It really happened fast. I heard Mo say 'Run, Kerry.' I saw them draw their guns. And I run." more ›

After a five-week manhunt that resulted in violence and 76 deaths, Jamaican authorities have arrested Christopher "Dudus" Coke. Coke is accused of leading a gang that runs drugs and weapons between New York and Jamaica. The Jamaican chief of police pleaded, "I would like to appeal to the families, friends and sympathizers of Christopher Coke to remain calm and to allow the law to take its course. I also [would] like to assure the citizens of Jamaica that the situation remains normal, there is no need for alarm and they can get about their normal businesses in the usual way." U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara said, "We look forward to working closely with the Jamaican authorities to bring Coke to justice to face charges pending against him in Manhattan federal court." more ›

A tractor trailer filled with waste has finally been removed from a residential street in Jamaica, after sitting there and smelling up the block for over three weeks. Residents told NY1 they had been shuffled between 311, 911 and the local precinct with regards to getting rid of the truck, which had been parked on a street with alternate side parking rules. One resident had previously complained, "It smells like a dead body. It reeks." Another said, "It smells like a very stinky fish." It was worse than that time the raccoon got in the copier! more ›

It's a sign of sad times in the city when reports of police officers actually doing their jobs right becomes news, but that's what happens when the Bad Old Days come knocking again. The Daily News has crowned the 103rd Precinct's Deputy Inspector Charles McEvoy and Police Officer Adam Jangel "Heroes of the Month" for catching some perps and recovering five guns in Jamaica, Queens. In February. more ›

There's no local news segment we love more than Arnold Diaz's Shame Shame Shame! series. Previously, Diaz has shamed Martha Stewart and her dangerous chairs, the "drunken negro" cookie baker, and the United Homeless Organization. The newest inductee into the Fox 5 Hall of Shame is the Supreme Parking lot across from the Queens Supreme Court on Sutphin Boulevard. Their crime? Bogarting metered parking spots with DOT and DEP traffic cones, and then selling the spots to desperate motorists. more ›

A wake is being held today for Guatemalan day laborer Hugo Alfredo Tale-Yax, who was fatally stabbed last week and died on the street, ignored by passersby. Working in America to buy his family a bigger piece of land in their hometown, Tale-Yax apparently tried to stop a man from attacking a woman on the street in Queens. He was stabbed in the altercation, and bled to death over an hour on the street. His brother said, "He was a good person.” more ›

The family of a homeless man who was ignored by dozens of passers-by as he was dying on a Jamaica, Queens street expressed their grief over his death and New Yorkers' callousness. Edwin Tacam told the Post "That shouldn’t have happened," and said his cousin Hugo Alfredo Tale-Yax "wouldn't have done that. It’s not important who it is, if we see someone hurt, we should help, at least call an ambulance. Lend a hand." more ›

Earlier this week, firefighters found the body of a homeless man stabbed to death on a Jamaica, Queens street. Police believe he was killed when trying to stop an attack on a woman. Now surveillance video not only shows part of the his struggle with the attacker but also that pedestrians walked by the dying man—and ignored him—for over an hour. more ›

A homeless man was stabbed to death yesterday morning in Queens. According to WABC 7, "The violence erupted at 88th Road and 144th Street in Jamaica," and it's believed he was killed while trying to break up a fight between a man and a woman. The Post spoke to a man who saw the incident replayed on surveillance video, and the video apparently showed a woman walking on 144th Street, "at 7:20 a.m. when two thugs accosted her from behind and 'one of the men tried to grab her wallet.'" The homeless man was stabbed multiple times. more ›

According to Jamaica residents, the house at 88-18 Burdette Place has about 15-20 homeless people living inside, and the trash is overwhelming the neighbors. The property is strewed with condoms, needles, diapers and other trash, and locals are worried the neighborhood may not be safe. Neighbor Amy Anderson told NY1, "My concern is when they set fires to keep warm, this is an attached house with families over there. It only takes one match." Residents say multiple contacts to city officials have done nothing; the Buildings Department says the abandoned house is currently owned by Wells Fargo, and upkeep is their responsibility. This is reportedly the fifth house in three years to have attracted homeless in the area. more ›

Police suspect the Queens man who slashed his pregnant wife may have jumped into the East River from the Whitestone Bridge. His wife (and victim) Patrona Kates, who suffered wounds to her throat and head, told the Daily News, "If [the police] find him, I hope they kill him." Fitzgerald Jolly—enraged by the announcement she was going to have a baby and her refusal to get an abortion—also stabbed Kates's twin sister, who tried to protect her. more ›

A pregnant Queens woman, along with her twin sister, sought safety in a bodega last night after being violently attacked by her knife-wielding husband. Fitzgerald Jolly was allegedly furious that his wife Petrona Kates refused to have an abortion. "I guess he didn't want her to carry on with the pregnancy," a cousin told the Daily News, describing how the two women were assaulted in front of at least six children a Jamaica apartment around 8:45 p.m. more ›

In addition to $500,000 it sunk into an over-priced lot, Queens Assemblywoman Vivian Cook’s nonprofit has spent $255,625 in Port Authority toll money on “streetcleaning” aka “a guy with a broom.” Since 2003 the The Rockaway Boulevard Local Development Corp. has received $2.5 million from the PA to help build community support for the building of an AirTrain line in the area. The Post reports that of that sum $76,625 was delegated to the Jamaica Chamber of Commerce last year for street sweeping. more ›

[UPDATE BELOW]: Investigators searching for the remains of a Baruch College student who disappeared 12 years ago uncovered bones in the basement of a Queens store. Law enforcement officials haven't yet linked the bones to 28-year-old undergraduate student Kristina Kupka, who vanished after her married chemistry professor got her pregnant. According to the Post, an anthropologist and the Medical Examiner's Office are studying the bones to see if they are human. If the remains are human, authorities will conduct further tests to determine if they can be linked to Kupka. more ›

Cold-case investigators are ripping up the basement of a Queens plumbing-supply store in hopes of finding the remains of a Baruch College student who disappeared 12 years ago after her married chemistry professor got her pregnant. Cops received a tip a decade ago that Kristine Kupka might be buried beneath the Jamaica shop, but the man who managed the property—a cousin of professor and "prime suspect" Darshanad Persaud—wouldn't allow them to search. But according to the Post, after the building was leased to a new business, cops got permission and a "cadaver-sniffing dog" indicated the presence of human remains. more ›

Three years before voting to rename a street in of honor an unarmed 23-year-old who was killed in a barrage of police bullets, a Queens Community Board rejected an application to rename a street in honor of a police officer killed in the line of duty. So following the board's controversial vote in favor of "Sean Bell Way," the family of deceased officer John Scarangella has again applied for a street renaming to memorialize the slain cop. But the chairwoman of Community Board 12, Adjoa Gzifa, opposes the renaming. "For every police officer that puts on a uniform and carries a gun, if they should perish in the line of duty, does that mean we have to rename a street for them?" more ›