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A Long Island elementary school gym teacher who had been accused of inappropriately touching nine young girls during class was acquitted of all the charges yesterday in Nassau County District […]

A collection of sample pills, a sink, an ivy wallpaper border, a free blood work-up. A scale, new glasses, an afternoon a week. Dozens of kindnesses, cobbled together at no […]

Citing what it said was Verizon New York Inc.'s difficulty in responding quickly to consumer complaints, the state's Public Service Commission voted yesterday to order an independent audit of the […]

A couple were found dead at their apartment in Newark yesterday, and their troubled 17-year-old son was being questioned about their deaths, the authorities said. About 5:45 p.m., the police […]

A 15-year-old boy was arrested yesterday morning after taking a loaded .38-caliber handgun to his high school, the police said. He was discovered by school safety agents at a metal […]

A Manhattan man was arrested yesterday in connection with 12 bank robberies and attempted bank robberies in Manhattan since the end of March, the police said. Oswaldo Planas, 33, of […]

Art Cooper, who in nearly 20 years as editor of GQ magazine helped to transform it into a showplace for literary journalism, died yesterday at New York Hospital. He was […]

An ailing dolphin found beached on the shore of Little Neck Bay was taken to a Long Island animal rehabilitation center last night. Two women on the Queens side of […]

A woman who answered her door at 2:30 p.m. yesterday was bound with duct tape and robbed by two men wearing fake badges around their necks, the police said. They […]

A convicted sex offender wanted for the attempted rape of a woman on Canal Street was arrested yesterday morning on the Queensboro Bridge, the police said. The suspect, George Augustine, […]

The police said yesterday that they were investigating a string of 13 apartment burglaries in a three-block area of the Upper West Side that began May 18. The thief enters […]

The police are seeking a convicted sex offender in an attempted rape that occurred Monday afternoon on Canal Street. The man, George Augustine, 67, approached a woman about 4 p.m., […]

A secretary was slashed in the face yesterday as she worked at a Brooklyn law firm in what the police called a puzzling attack by two men. A friend who […]

The courts will not stop two rock concerts planned for Riverhead, N.Y., but the events' promoters still need to arrange for adequate police protection before the shows can receive the […]

The police are looking for a man linked by DNA to the rapes of three teenagers in the past 14 months. The man is in his early 20's, is 5 […]

The police discovered more than half a million dollars worth of stolen name-brand clothing after they searched two private homes on Roosevelt Avenue, at 89th Street and at 77th Street. […]

A New York Post columnist was robbed early yesterday morning as he left Langan's, a bar on West 47th Street between Avenue of the Americas and Seventh Avenue. The columnist, […]

A former New York City police detective who was convicted of helping to impede the investigation of a 1998 mob murder was sentenced yesterday to 12 and a half years […]

In a case that some medical ethicists and legislators say clarifies a murky and contested corner of state law, a judge issued a ruling this week that says no parent […]

A Boeing 777 jet flying near the Statue of Liberty and across Midtown Manhattan yesterday morning to give returning military personnel a closer view prompted numerous calls to the police […]

The police have issued a warrant for the arrest of a man they believe was involved in the fatal stabbing of a teenage girl Sunday morning. The man, Richard McCullough, […]

Federal prosecutors have filed court papers asking that the proceeds of a film promoted by a hip-hop label be confiscated because, they said, it was produced using drug money. In […]

Two police officers were suspended without pay yesterday for the unauthorized discharge of their guns, the police said. The officers, Linda Martin and Kathy Pappas, are assigned to the 78th […]

The executive editor of The New York Times outlined a series of steps yesterday that he said the newspaper would take to prevent any recurrence of journalistic fraud, in reaction […]

A police detective was suspended last night after a prisoner escaped in Park Slope, according to the police. Jackie Diaz, who had been arrested for possession of a controlled substance, […]

A Bronx man was arrested and charged with drunk driving after his car struck and killed a 10-year-old boy last night, the police said. Luis Carasquillo, 59, of Hoe Avenue, […]

One man died yesterday and another was hospitalized after they were pulled from the Harlem Meer in Central Park, the police said. The man who died, Alberto Hernandez, 23, of […]

The body of a slight blond woman was found floating on the Queens side of the East River yesterday, and detectives say they believe it is that of a 44-year-old […]

A Manhattan art broker was arrested in Brazil yesterday on charges that he arranged to sell a Picasso painting that he knew was stolen and tried to sell a Monet […]

An elderly woman in a wheelchair was badly injured in a fire in her Upper East Side apartment last night, a firefighter at the scene said. The woman and her […]

A prisoner escaped from the Newark jail last night and was still at large early this morning, the police said. The escapee, Melissa Hoagland, 30, was arrested on Friday and […]

Two men stole $40,000 in cash yesterday from a businessman on his way to a local bank, the police said. The man's car was struck in the rear near 56th […]

The city water board adopted a 5.5 percent increase in water rates yesterday, a spokesman for the Department of Environmental Protection said. The new rate, $1.52 per 748 gallons (up […]

The Iraqi information minister is curiously absent. Actually, he is sold out, so sold out that any order placed for a doll in his image will not be filled for […]

WE were on a cultured duck chase through Central Park. We tried the model boat pond, closest to the nest, but no luck. No grasses for picking around in, too […]

An affidavit filed in January in a federal investigation of links between the rap record label Murder Inc. and a convicted drug kingpin, Kenneth McGriff, states that Mr. McGriff was […]

A janitor at a public elementary school was arrested yesterday and charged with sodomy, sexual abuse, endangering the welfare of a child and possession of marijuana, the police said. Arthar […]

The police are looking for a man they believe raped and robbed two women and attempted to rob a third at gunpoint this month and raped another woman in 1998. […]

A 14-year-old girl was raped by two 14-year-old boys at their school yesterday, the police said. The attack occurred at Intermediate School 302, at 350 Linwood Street, in Highland Park, […]

A Hollywood Video store manager was indicted yesterday on charges that he repeatedly sexually abused five of his employees and raped one of them. A Bronx grand jury indicted the […]

A 24-year-old Ridgewood man waving a long sword kept the authorities at bay for more than seven hours last night on the roof of a building near his home, the […]

After releasing blistering reports yesterday on the financial affairs of the city and regional transit authorities, the city and state comptrollers suggested a number of changes for making them more […]

A 17-year-old boy was shot to death last night, the police said. The boy, Dante Martin, of Weeks Avenue, who was found on the street near East 174th Street and […]

With apartment building workers preparing for a possible strike after midnight tonight, residents in about 3,000 unionized buildings in New York City are planning ways to step in for their […]

A police officer from Fair Lawn, N.J., was killed and a Clifton police officer was shot last night in Fair Lawn, an agent with the homicide division of the Passaic […]

A toddler died yesterday after falling from a 17th-floor window, the police said. The boy, who the police said was 2, fell from the window of a large apartment building […]

A Manhattan man has been accused of posing as a lawyer and telling people he could get parking summonses dismissed, the Department of Investigation announced yesterday. The man, Jose Diaz, […]

A 24-year-old man was shot to death and a 19-year-old man was shot in the ankle last evening, the police said. The shootings occurred at the corner of Parkside and […]

Tenants of a 66-unit apartment building in Harlem were told by a building inspector yesterday that their apartments would be evacuated at 8 a.m. today, they said. The building, at […]