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Reports that a man who offered the police his services as a psychic in the investigation into the murder of student Sarah Fox in New York City has emerged as the main suspect in the case.

The article reports on 17-year-old junior high Dymir Parish at a high school in Harlem, New York and his involvement in a scuffle and the move of the city government and school officials to lessen the high school suspension.

The article reports on the death of 18-year-old American high school student Tanaya Copeland after being stabbed by unidentified man while walking to a friend's house at Stanley Avenue in East New York City on May 30, 2014. The police states that Copeland might have been stabbed by the same man who killed two children in the elevator of a public-housing project on June 1, 2014. It mentions the grainy image from a security camera of a man with a heavy build running from the sight.

The article discusses the New York City police department investigation of the murder of graduate student Imette St. Guillen. Blood matching prime suspect Darryl Littlejohn, a bouncer at the bar that Guillen was last seen alive, was found on ties using to bind the victim, but the police are not ready to charge him with murder.

Reports on the tragic shootings at Martin Luther King Jr. High School in New York City which injured two students of the school. Weapon used by the perpetrator; Coincidence in the occurrence of the tragedy with the birthday of King; Description of the victims by classmates.

The article reports on the agreement of Brooklyn, New York City Poly Prep Country Day School to settle a lawsuit brought by former students accusing the private school of covering up decades of sexual abuse of boys by football coach Philip Foglietta. The school's headmaster David B. Harman hopes that the settlement brings a measure of closure to abused members of the Poly community. He stresses their effort to insure the abuse will never happens again.

A physical education teacher at a Brooklyn high school was arrested on Tuesday after the police said he grabbed the buttocks of a 16-year-old female student. He is at least the sixth New York City school worker charged in two months with a sexual offense against a student. The teacher, Esran Boothe, 49, of the Brooklyn Academy of Science and the Environment in Crown Heights, was charged with forcible touching and third-degree sexual abuse, both misdemeanors, the police said, adding that the charges arose from a single episode. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Updated, 4:15 p.m. A school aide in Queens was arrested Thursday on charges of sexually abusing six 9- and 10-year-old girls at the school, becoming the fifth city school worker charged in the last few weeks with sexual crimes against children. The aide, Brett Picou, 30, of Public School 52 in Springfield Gardens, is awaiting arraignment on seven felony counts of sexual abuse, one felony count of repeated sexual abuse of a child and seven misdemeanor counts of forcible touching, the Queens district attorney's office said. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The article focuses on the killing of Justin D. Cosby, an alleged drug dealer at the Harvard University in Brooklyn, New York. Suspects including Blayn Jiggets and Jabrai Jordon Copney were arrested and the other unidentified suspect remains at large. Chanequa Campbell and Britanny Smith, students at Harvard, were denied diplomas from the school because both allegedly linked to the shooting. Campbell and Smith were both black Americans.

A former bouncer at a SoHo bar was convicted of murder on Wednesday for sexually abusing and killing a graduate student, then dumping her body in a desolate corner of Brooklyn -- a crime that shocked the city and led to greater scrutiny of the nightclub industry. The bouncer, Darryl Littlejohn, 44, stared blankly ahead during the reading of the verdict of first-degree murder in State Supreme Court in Brooklyn. A finding of first-degree murder means that the crime took place during the commission of another crime -- in this case, sexual abuse. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

A distraught man held a pellet pistol to the head of a student on City College's campus in Harlem and threatened to shoot her and himself on Wednesday before the police persuaded him to drop the gun, the authorities said. No one was injured in the confrontation about 2:45 p.m. in the college's financial aid office, the police said. The man, whose identity was not disclosed, was carrying notes indicating that he wanted to kill himself, the police said, and he was taken to St. Luke's-Roosevelt Hospital Center for psychiatric observation. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

A 14-year-old boy charged in the death of a doctoral student at Columbia told the police that he tried to stop the student from dashing into traffic after attacking him, a detective said at the boy's arraignment on Thursday. The boy, whose name is not being released because of his age, was formally charged as a juvenile on Thursday in Family Court in Manhattan with second-degree manslaughter in the death of Minghui Yu, 24, a student from China pursuing his doctorate in statistics. According to the police, the boy repeatedly punched Mr. Yu on a median on Broadway at 122nd Street around 9 p.m. on Friday. Mr. Yu tried to escape by running into the southbound lane of Broadway, the police said, where he was fatally struck by a Jeep Cherokee. The driver was not charged. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The article presents the author's comments on New York City police's attitude towards high school students with particular reference to harassment of a 16-year-old girl student of Bronx Guild High School in February 3, 2005. The girl was harassed by police officer Juan Gonzalez for inappropriate behavior, which according to the author is hardly a criminal offense. The author further says that the harassment of students is a part of the campaign of the police against young people.

The article offers information on the interrogation of a man named Michael Brown, of Bronx, New York City, in the case of the 2003 shooting death of a student Hunter College, New York City. The 21 year old suspect was earlier arrested on the charges of shooting a person named Goldburn Gill during a burglary in Harlem building. A Police spokesman asserted on the suspicion of Brown's involvement in the case, however, declined to comment on the revelation made by Brown during the interrogation.

The article reports that a $10 million federal lawsuit has been filed against the New York State Police Department by the family of a 17-year-old student, who said he was battered by four undercover officers in Queens, New York City last summer. Xavier Simpson, the student, was stopped by four plainclothes officers, who accused the teen of obstructing traffic.

The article reports on a decision given by the officials of New York City regarding the closing of public schools in the city after the shooting of 18-year-old student Tylik Pugh in Asbury Park High School, Asbury Park, New Jersey. The decision came when investigations were going on to determine the motives behind the shooting. It has been asserted that the shooting of the student is associated with the deterioration of the neighborhood.

The article informs that Melvon Moore, a high school student from Brooklyn, New York city, was shot in his back on September 19, 2006 following an after-school scuffle. Moore ran towards the police school patrol after a brawl with some young men to plead with the officers to help him. He claims that police officers ignored his plea, and while he ran home in fear of his life, he was shot in his back. Eyewitnesses stated police officers were in their patrol car ignoring the after-school fight.

The article reports on the killing of Imette Saint Guillen, a graduate of John Jay College of Criminal Justice in New York City.

Reports that former Columbia student has pleaded guilty to attempted aggravated sexual abuse for trying to kiss and touch another student while she was sleeping in her dorm room in New York.

Reports that New York City's Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg announced that efforts to curb school violence in the city's most dangerous schools had been so successful that 5 of 16 schools would be removed from the list. How a 43 percent reduction in major crime and a 33 percent fall in overall crime over the past year.

Reports on the killing of Levi Bernard, a high school student in his family's home in the Bronx, New York City. Statement of the authorities regarding the killer; Reaction of relatives to the incident; Description of Bernard as a young man.

Examines the new efforts to clean up violent New York City schools. How the education system has taken a page from the crime prevention techniques of former Mayor Rudolph Giuliani to attempt the project; Focus on smaller "quality of life" offenses as a way to reduce more major crimes; Tracking of crime patterns; Accountability of supervisors; Preliminary statistics which suggest the plan is working with a 48% decrease in major crime in the schools; Complaints of critics.

Reports on the progress of the case involving the murder of college student Mark Fisher in Brooklyn, New York City. Preparation of a memorial service by Fisher's parents on the spot where the body was found; Refusal of authorities to provide details about the new developments in the case; Role of John Guica in the case.

Reports on the punishment of Gary Coleman, former city teacher at Intermediate School 158 and basketball coach in the Bronx for imprisonment up to seven years for sodomizing and sexually abusing three young players in a cash-for-sex scheme. Facts of the crime.

Reports that a 13-year-old girl was sexually assaulted at Intermediate School 172 in Manhattan, New York.

Reports on the posting of the personal information of students at New York University on the Internet. Concerns over privacy and identity theft; Assurances from the University that web security will be increased; Use of social security numbers for student identification; Notification of the University to the problem; Defense of the person who allegedly made the information available.

Reports that Yael Leopold, a visiting college student from Massachusetts, was attacked with a knife in a Lower Manhattan subway. Description of the attack; Description of her wounds; Description of the assailant.

Reports that Vincent Rodriguez has been arrested and charged for a shooting that wounded two students at Martin Luther King Jr. High School in New York City. Details of the event, based on the defendant's statements; Belief that Rodriguez was seeking revenge after a confrontation in which the victims had harassed his girlfriend; How Rodriguez snuck the gun into the school.

Deals with the arrest of Gurvis Tafe, student of the Evander Childs High School in Bronx, New York City, for stabbing a fellow student on May 29, 2001.

Reports that New York City public schools Chancellor Harold O. Levy has removed assistant principal Judith Ramirez from Community School 66 in the Bronx, after she failed to notify the police about a sexual attack on two fifth-grade girls by two sixth-grade boys in a school stairwell. Mention of a scheduled disciplinary hearing for Ramirez and the school's principal; Regulations requiring school administrators to immediately notify police of criminal incidents.

Reports on the federal civil rights suit filed by four Yale and Brown university graduates who alleged that they were beaten by police officers from the Street Crime Unit in New York City, New York. Reason for the decision of the graduates to pursue the case; Police version of the January 10, 2000 incident; Plaintiffs' ownership of an Internet company and Web site.

States that Melvin Nieves, a business student who argued with two men he had caught urinating near the door to his Queens, New York apartment building, was killed when the men returned and shot him in the head. Remarks from Sergeant John Giammarino, a police spokesman; Background on Nieves.

Focuses on the charges made against three students at Bayside High School in Queens, New York City for beating and sexual assault of a girl on October 26, 1999. Identification of the students arrested in the attack; Testimonies of the girl; Result of police investigation.

Announces the reopening of an investigation into the shooting death of a 16-year-old yeshiva student as he rode in a van on the Brooklyn Bridge in New York City, New York in March 1994. Demands of the mother of Ari Halberstam, the youth who died in the attack, to the United States Justice Department; Details on the shooting.

Reports on the murder of Amy Watkins, a graduate student at the Hunter College Graduate School of Social Work in New York City. Belief that robbery was the motive for the stabbing; Watkins' counseling work with battered women.

Reports the murder of Michael Bennett, a Lafayette High School Student in New York City, New York. How Bennett was a promising scholar and an athlete; His attack by teammates from an opposing high school after a basketball game.

Focuses on the body of Yankum Huang, a Baruch College student in New York City, New York which was discovered inside a trash-filled shaftway at the campus. Comments from Deputy Chief James Ward, commanding officer of Brooklyn Detectives; Details on the discovery of the body of Yankum Huang; Similarity of the incident with the case of honor student Kristine Kuka.

Reports on the killing of Amy Watkins, a 26-year-old graduate student in New York City, New York in March 1999. Possible motive for the killing; Action taken by police officers in response to the incident; How the incident happened.

Reports the murder charged against Damian Davis, a high school students in Brooklyn, New York, New York. Why he killed Orlando Brathwaite Jr., also a student; Details on the incident.

Reports on the series of violence at Harry S. Truman High School on Baychester Avenue in Coop City, New York. Reason for the violence; Injuries suffered by victims; Arrests made by the police.

Presents news briefs on the United States. Decision of Rosalind Selzer to sell her farm after years of fighting a school board who plan to build a school in her farm; Search for a restaurant owner named Guo Lin for attacking a student; Court sentence on a woman prisoner who was released on probation for abortion.

Reports that Joseph Rebecca, a teacher in Brookly, New York, New York, was convicted of statutory rape and other charges for having a sexual relationship with a student. Details on the case; Charges given to Rebecca.

Reports that on November 1, 1995, more than 70 students of the North Babylon High School suffered from smoke inhalation, after a smoke bomb was triggered. Number of students treated at the Good Samaritan Hospital in Bay Shore; Efforts of school officials and police in determining who caused the incident.

Reports the sentence of an accomplice in a case of attack on Hasidic Jewish students in Brooklyn by State Supreme Court in Manhattan on May 17, 1995.

Reports that Reverend Al Sharpton teamed up with New York City Board of Education president Carol Gresser to launch a confidential 24-hour hotline for students who are victims of sexual abuse by personnel of the public school system. Offering of support and counseling to callers; Contact information.

Provides information on the identity of a student, from Canarsie, Brooklyn, found dead in a basement in Queens, New York. Details of the case; Speculations on being burnt alive.

Reports on investigations into the news of a kindergarten pupil being handcuffed to a banister by a staff member of Public School 35 in Brooklyn.

Reports on the motive behind the fatal stabbing of a student at Mount Vernon High School on October 24, 1994. Statement of the same by lawyer; Account of incident; Reaction of the school following the incident; Comments of police on the incident and future safety measures.