The motive behind the horrific killings at a Pennsylvania weekend house owned by an East Village couple is still being investigated. East 10th Street residents Paul and Monica Shay were at their Bechtelsville farmhouse with their nephew Joseph Shay, his girlfriend Kathryn Erdmann, and her two-year-old son Gregory when Mark Geisenheyner (pictured) stormed in and shot them all in the head on Saturday night. Joseph Shay and Gregory Erdmann died from their wounds, while the others were seriously injured. Geisenheyner, who was killed by a SWAT team on July 4, told friends that Paul Shay hadn't paid him his share of an insurance fraud scheme. more ›

A middle-aged man held several workers hostage at Sen. Clinton's New Hampshire campaign office in the town of Rochester yesterday, before surrendering to police. The alleged bomb he had taped to his chest turned out to be simply a number of road flares. Leeland Eisenberg's motivation for seizing Clinton's field office is unclear, but he appears to be a disturbed individual. The New York Times declined to speculate on Eisenberg's purpose ("[Police] would not discuss... more ›

Hoboken disbanded its SWAT team this week after another scandal rocked the police department of the tiny New Jersey town across the river. A number of minority officers recently filed a lawsuit accusing a high-ranking co-worker of behaving like a white supremacist, regularly deriding minorities. Now the SWAT team has been disbanded days after photos became public showing the unit's commander and other cops cavorting with waitresses at a Hooters restaurant in Alabama. The Mile... more ›