Yesterday, the driver who struck two teens walking to high school in Brooklyn was he man who hit two teenagers as they were walking to school yesterday was charged with driving while intoxicated, vehicular assault, and driving without a license. And the judge at the arraignment seemed very disgusted with driver Oliver Black. more ›

Yesterday morning around 9 a.m, two students were walking to Lincoln High School when they were struck by an unlicensed SUV on Ocean Parkway and West Street in Brooklyn. The teens, both 17, were taken to the hospital; the male student is stable while the female is in critical condition. WPIX reports that the "SUV's 54-year-old driver stopped at the scene and waited for police to arrive" and "was arrested and charged with driving with a suspended license." One Lincoln HS student told WCBS 2, "People zoom up and down this block, I don't know where they need to go." Update: The Daily News says driver Oliver Black was allegedly drunk. more ›

Fire officials believe that Wednesday's fire that killed three children was started by a chlid playing with a lighter. A seven year old accidentally caused the fire in the foyer of the Coney Island apartment, and the apartment's duplex layout, with entrance upstairs and bedrooms downstairs - with no exit - trapped the three others, sisters Jahgira Sheffer and Jahnae O'Pharrow, and their uncle Ricardo Clark, a 16 year old who played basketball at Lincoln High School. A neighbor who lived in a similar building in the complex at Ocean Towers told the Post the fires in the apartments could leave people "blocked like a rat stuck in a maze." more ›

Will Sebastian Telfair be a success or a failure in the NBA? Would he have benefited as a player by going to school or was it better for him to cut and run? Gothamist secretly thought he would be going pro when we wrote about him last time, but we aren't sure if he can succeed with his height. Only time will tell. At least he knows how to do business, putting the adidas announcement before his own announcement. For those of you hoping that he could join his cousin Stephon Marbury on the Knicks, keep dreaming. The Knicks don't have a first round draft pick this year. more ›

Telfair is already a star (check out the gallery Newsday devotes to him), with Jay-Z, Foxy Brown, Spike Lee , and 12,018 other people in attendance at The Garden. Gothamist wonders if Telfair will be the next Kevin Garnett or the next Leon Smith. more ›