New York City Conflict & Tragedy News

NEW YORK - Alexa Ray Joel, the daughter of Billy Joel and Christie Brinkley was rushed to St. Vincent's Hospital in Manhattan after taking an overdose of over the counter sleeping pills. It was reported she was distraught over an...

NATO answered President Obama's call for reinforcements in Afghanistan today with a pledge to provide 7,000 more troops. The NATO secretary-general, speaking at a press conference, didn't say where the troops will come from, but Britain has already offered 500,...

Chief Charlie Beck sworn in, for a second time, in ceremony at headquarters The department's 56th leader was officially sworn in a few weeks ago. Thursday as newly appointed Chief Charlie Beck was sworn in to office -- for a...

Federal authorities expect to file more charges in an alleged plot by an al-Qaida associate to attack New York City with homemade bombs, a prosecutor said Thursday...Attorney Jeffrey Knox told a judge the charges would be contained in a new...

An auction at Christie�s in Manhattan ended in disappointment today for the Wilmington Library. The library only managed to sell five of the 14 N.C Wyeth paintings it had put up for sale. Posted 12/2/09. http://www.delawareonline.com/section/VideoNetwork?bctid=53728955001 rtmp://cp21774.edgefcs.net/ondemand/&brightcove/29913743001/29913743001_53742050001_2library...

35,000 sex preditors was booted from Myspace, Face book and other internet social networks. The crack down took place in N.Y State convicted sex offenders was banned from the inernet. The story was reported in the New york Daily News...

It was Sept. 12 before Michael Curatola remembered Pablo Ortiz. Watching the people leap from the windows, feeling the earth shudder, Curatola was so immersed in the horror of 9/11 that he failed to register that on the 88th floor...

Here is what the FBI should have been doing all along. This afternoon, federal prosecutors seized four mosques and a skyscraper that belongs to a nonprofit Muslim organization that is currently controlled by the government of Iran. The name of...

NEW YORK - Carmen Huertas, 31, pictured in the photo was drunk as she drove her car packed with seven young girls going to a slumber party to her home. Huertas lost control of the car, the vehicle flipped over...