Last night, while working in a gun buy-and-bust operation, an undercover police officer fatally shot a man who tried to rob him at gunpoint in Brooklyn. The cop was buying six guns from a 22-year-old gun trafficker at 193 Knickerbocker Avenue when another man showed up and pretended to rob them. The second man pointed his .380-caliber gun at the gun dealer and then at the cop, who fired three times. more ›

You know those sad little plastic cups of loose change at the supermarket checkout you never drop money into because, what, now you have to tip grocery baggers too? For some baggers, that's their only source of income. Yesterday two executives at an Associated supermarket in Bushwick—which workplace justice activists have been protesting against for years—were arrested on charges that they've cheated workers out of more than $300,000 and falsified business records to cover their tracks. more ›

Authorities believe 5-year-old Jay "Tito" Morales set fire to his grandmother's apartment in an act of revenge, because she wouldn't let him go to the park. Now the child is in critical condition after suffering third-degree burns over 70-90% of his body. more ›