A Long Island police union official says someone yelled "gun" moments before a Nassau County officer was killed in a friendly fire shooting on Saturday night, the AP reports. And police sources say this person is a retired NYPD officer who resides in the area but had no business being at the scene (sounds familiar). more ›

A Long Island cop was mistakenly shot and killed by another officer while responding to a call about a Satanist decked out "Rambo-style" last night. The incident began when Theresa Kelly called Nassau County police after seeing neighbor Anthony DiGeronimo, dressed in Army fatigues and a white hockey mask stalking the streets in Massapequa Park, attacking and slashing cars with a giant knife. "I heard a loud thud against my window. I looked up and there was a man there wielding a knife and hitting my window. He was smirking and he was laughing. I screamed and he started to walk out of the driveway," 71-year-old Kelly told the Post. more ›

When parishioners at The Glory of Christ Church in the Parkchester section of The Bronx arrived for service on Sunday morning, they found their church—located in a formerly run-down synagogue that they'd lovingly rescued from decay—reduced to a smoldering ruin. The fire, which broke out around 4 a.m., took 100 firefighters to extinguish and is being investigated as a hate crime. The walls were spray-painted with a pentagram, "666," and "Hail to Satan," along with, "We hate Jews and Christians" and "GET OFF OUR BLOCK." After stealing $300 from the offering box, vandals stacked chairs in the sanctuary and set them on fire. more ›

The Queens teenager accused of killing WABC radio newsman George Weber was back before a judge inside a Brooklyn courtroom yesterday. John Katehis, the sixteen-year-old who allegedly responded to Weber's sex ad on Craigslist and the brutally cut him up inside Weber's Brooklyn apartment, was denied bail yesterday in Brooklyn Supreme Court. The East Elmhurst teen has apparently not toned down his act from the time of the arrest when his MySpace page revealed Katehis calling himself a Satanist and posing for self-portraits with knives. When he showed up in court yesterday, the prosecutor noted to the judge, "He has even written on his sneakers 'Satan' and 'Arch-enemy,' " to go along with tattoos on his arm of a pentagram, "666" and the word "Diablo." A lawyer for Katehis said that the writing on his shoes simply referred to a heavy metal band. more ›