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After a juror fell ill and said she could not continue deliberating, a judge in Brooklyn declared a mistrial on Monday in the case of Lee Woods, one of three men charged with the killing of Officer Russel Timoshenko during a traffic stop last year. The juror, a woman in her 20s, complained of heart trouble last week, and visited a cardiologist over the weekend, according to Samuel J. Karliner, a lawyer for Mr. Woods. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

More than a dozen people were injured, one of them critically, in an apartment fire in Brooklyn early Tuesday in which firefighters rescued six people, and two small children were dropped to safety from a second-floor apartment, according to fire officials and witnesses. The fire, at the corner of Newkirk and Ocean Avenues in Flatbush, broke out around 2 a.m. and sent eight members of one family to the hospital. Six people remained hospitalized last night. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

When her husband became too sick five years ago to tend to the family dry-cleaning business, Kyung-Sook Woo did not hesitate to take over the job, sometimes rising so early to open the shop that customers would find her with a curling iron in her hand and her long hair half-curled. They knew Mrs. Woo, 52, as their determined but lovable dry cleaner, as much a charming mainstay of Windsor Terrace as the porch-fronted houses that line the Brooklyn neighborhood's narrow streets. She had been robbed at least twice, her customers said, but she remained undeterred. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

In the largest public protest against the acquittal of three detectives in the shooting death of Sean Bell, 216 people were arrested on Wednesday in carefully orchestrated demonstrations that halted traffic at busy intersections in Manhattan and Brooklyn, the police said. The demonstrations, described by the Rev. Al. Sharpton as ''pray-ins,'' played out on a bright spring afternoon as boisterous displays of civil disobedience in which people signed up to be arrested, assuring organizers and lawyers that they were carrying proper identification to show to the police. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

A 5-year-old Brooklyn boy fell 10 stories down an elevator shaft to his death on Tuesday in a public housing complex where residents had complained of recurring problems with the elevators and renovations had been delayed because of federal cutbacks. The police said the boy, Jacob Neuman, 5, was in an elevator with his 8-year-old brother at 70 Clymer Street in South Williamsburg just before 9:00 a.m. when the elevator became lodged between the 10th and 11th floors. Jacob, a student at a Talmudic academy, was on his way to classes when he tried to escape through the opened elevator door by jumping to the 10th floor, the police said, but lost his footing and fell to the bottom of the shaft. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

A man and a woman were arrested in Brooklyn on assault charges in the killing of a 3-year-old boy who lived with them, the police said, and more charges were possible after the medical examiner's office determined that the boy had been beaten to death. The woman, Nymeen Cheatham, 30, and the man, Lemar Martin, 25, who lived together at 129 Patchen Avenue, in Bedford-Stuyvesant, were also charged with acting in a manner to injure the child, Kyle Smith, the police said. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]