A Libyan war refugee has been arrested and charged with fatally stabbing an acquaintance inside his Astoria apartment. Police say that 35-year-old Wahid Elawame stabbed 28-year-old Mrwan Said (also of Queens) inside Elawame’s four-bedroom home on Steinway Street, near 28th Avenue, around 11:30 p.m. Friday. Two of Elawame's roommates jumped out of the window of the second floor apartment when the stabbing started; and according to the Post, the stabbing happened because Said didn't want to take part in an alleged plot to kill Elawame’s boss, Sammy Zebib, the Layali Beirut Cafe and Restaurant owner who had refused to give Elawame more work. more ›

A 77-year-old Holocaust survivor is claiming in a federal lawsuit that an NYPD officer punched him in the face during a traffic stop on the Long Island Expressway. In the court documents obtained by the Post, Miklos Muller admits that in November he ran a red light on Woodhaven Boulevard and was pulled over moments later on the LIE. “They flashed their lights and I pulled over to the side . . . One cop started screaming at me, ‘You almost killed me,’ and punched me through the open window," Muller says. more ›

A federal jury has found a Queens man guilty on all charges related to a 2009 plan for suicide attacks on the NYC subways, conspiring to join the Taliban and training with Al Qaeda. Adis Medunjanin now faces up to life in prison. more ›

Union jobs are coveted, because they offer the well-paying and usually secure positions—which is why hundreds of people have been camping out for the chance to apply for apprenticeships at Local Union 46, the metallic lathers and reinforcing ironworkers union. The first person in line outside the Queens shop got there last Sunday. more ›

JetBlue's fancy new Queens headquarters is just missing one thing: a massive illuminated sign letting everyone for miles around know about JetBlue. more ›

82-year-old Doris Gadpaille was crossing the street in Queens on the evening of April 15th when an SUV driver blew through a stop sign, ran her over, and left her in a bloodied pile in the middle of the road. She's lucky to be alive, but now she's more than a little outraged, because it seems the alleged driver is an off-duty NYPD detective. "If he’s a policeman, he should know better,” Gadpaille told CBS 2′s John Slattery. "That's not human. It's not." more ›

A Queens man appears to have shot his girlfriend in the back of the head last night before turning the gun on himself—a sad story made sadder by the fact the pair were then discovered by their two-year-old son. more ›

A 62-year-old bus driver in Queens has been arrested and charged with failure to exercise control of a minor after she allegedly left a 2-year-old girl alone in a parked school bus this morning. The girl is fine but the driver, Ana Garcia, has probably had better days. more ›

Yesterday at 5:10 p.m., Queens Narcotics detectives tried to pull over a 2009 Dodge Avenger with three men inside near 115th Street and 116th Road. According to the police, "The vehicle fled northbound on 149 Street and collided into a parked and unoccupied minivan in front of 116-41 149 Street. The suspects exited the vehicle and fled the location. One of the suspects was apprehended in the rear of 1334 Sutphin Boulevard by responding officers and taken to Jamaica Hospital for minor injuries." And inside the car, police found a fully loaded AR 15 rifle and two fully loaded 380 caliber firearms. more ›

Fasten your seatbelts for a hilarious new reality show about the harrowing world of Queens driving instructors and their bumbling students. The new A&E series Last Chance Driving School debuts Saturday night, and judging by the photos and the trailer, it looks wheely wild! According to A&E, the premiere episode stars "stay at home mom Jasmine," who "takes a highway driving lesson with Sven with disastrous consequences. Pete is pushed to the edge by first time driver Sharron—one of the worst drivers he's seen in his 37 years on the road! And things heat up back at the school when a female student flirts with Sven—much to Maria's annoyance!" more ›

Our subways need a lot of maintenance, and that means riders need to deal with some inconveniences as the MTA gets to work between now and April 16 on a "major track renewal and component replacement project along the Queens Boulevard Line." This means Manhattan-bound E and F customers that board between Sutphin Boulevard (F) and 75th Avenue (E, F) stations will need to to back-ride Queens-bound trains and then change for Manhattan-bound trains at non-affected stations. According to the MTA, "This will add about ten minutes to a rush-hour trip." more ›

The police are looking for a man suspected in four separate groping incidents in the Jacksons Heights neighborhood of Queens. more ›

You know how you should never let strangers into your apartment building? Even the police say, "If you live in an apartment don't be polite and hold the lobby door open for a stranger who has been waiting." But in one Queens building, one resident's stranger turned out to be another resident and the whole thing turned into a fight, one of them getting beaten up and the other arrested. more ›

For the second time in a month a New York City school safety agent has been arrested after getting into a violent domestic altercation. Police today cuffed 28-year-old Tommy Johnson in Queens and charged him of raping his ex-girlfriend as well as menacing, assault and criminal possession of a weapon. more ›

Police have arrested someone for basically razing a new Queens playground and causing $100,000 in damage. Seventeen-year-old Allan Swafford, of the Bronx, was arrested yesterday, based on a tip to CrimeStoppers. more ›

According to Queens prosecutors, a couple took in disabled woman last year to help her save money—and then locked her away, took her money, beat her regularly and denied her food and medical care. Oh, and the woman, who is partially paralyzed on the left side, also allegedly had to clean up after the couple's cats and dogs for good measure [PDF]. This is not a happy story. more ›

This morning an 89-year-old man was found with trauma to his face and his hands bounds with flexicuffs in his home in Queens. The victim, Cuban-born Damaso Llano, was one of the three co-owners of El Mundo Supermarket in Corona (around the corner from the apartment where the body was found). more ›

An NYPD sergeant and 19-year veteran of the force says that cops systematically downgraded and misclassified serious crimes in Queens' 100th Precinct to pad crime stats, then transferred him to a graveyard shift in retaliation. "I just couldn't take it anymore," Sergeant Robert Borrelli told ABC of the pressure to manipulate crime statistics. "There came a point I finally broke and I'm like, you know, this has to stop." more ›

When it first opened in Long Island City the "diner" M. Wells made quite the splash. Critics, with one notable exception, couldn't stop gushing about it. But then it closed after losing its lease and, despite our hopes, has yet to return. Until now! Sort of! more ›

Ugh, sometimes people are just the worst. Because why would anyone want to destroy a brand, new playground scheduled to open for this summer? Far Rockaway residents are devastated as some idiot(s) decided to drive a front loader into the playground and to rip away slides and other play equipment. Community board district manager Jonathan Gaska said, "They just wrecked most of the playground. Pretty much every piece of equipment was damaged. So you almost have to replace almost everything." more ›

Late last night, an off-duty corrections officer was shot in the stomach outside the USA Diner on Merrick Boulevard in Queens. According to the Daily News, the 29-year-old woman "had shown up with her boyfriend... shortly after 10:30 p.m." But then, the diner's manager, who looked at surveillance footage, told the Daily News, "She got a text on her phone. She checks it, then she starts rubbing her hands together — she’s very nervous." more ›

Early Sunday morning a Queens mother of two of was killed when she was shot 20 times while sitting on the stoop in front of her home. According to the NY Post, at around 3:30 a.m. Sunday Sandra Bajnath, 39, accidentally bumped into an unidentified woman while at the Food Hut Restaurant and Bar on Rockaway Boulevard in South Ozone Park with her husband Anthony Tika and her cousin Sean Seepaul. The trio left soon after to avoid a scene when Bajnath's apology was apparently rejected, retiring to drink on her stoop outside her 135th St home, two blocks away from Food Hut. more ›