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In the following press release Queens District Attorney Richard A. Brown today announced that a St.

Shiv Convenience store manager Bharat Patel enjoy lottery sales at 'lucky' Queens store.

Someone got really lucky in Queens. Mona Rivera reports According to lottery officials, the winning Mega Millions ticket -- worth an estimated $133 million -- was sold at a convenience store in Jamaica.

John Buckmon, a former drug dealer, who was prosecuted under the Rockefeller Drug Laws is now trying to get his life back together with his family.

Gwyneth Paltrow speaks almost perfect Spanish - and she does it with an Iberian accent.

Lorraine Valentini, a fierce competitor on top of a bike who helped share her love of cycling with many newcomers to the sport, died Tuesday at her home in Hartsdale.

Three workers at a waste transfer station in Queens were overcome by toxic fumes Monday afternoon and died, apparently falling one after another into the Stygian gloom of a putrid, manhole-size, 18-foot-deep well they were trying to vacuum, fire officials said.

A fugitive was shot by a Suffolk County law enforcement officer during an attempted apprehension in the Cambria Heights section of Queens Wednesday.

A father and son were killed Monday afternoon along with another man who was working with them after they all fell into a well containing toxic gas at a Jamaica recycling plant, authorities said.

Police officers watched over the Regal Recycling Company plant in Jamaica, Queens, where three workers died after being overcome by toxic fumes.

New York City firefighters were attempting to rescue three workers who have been reported trapped in a sewage hole in Queens.

A huge complaint of Seattleites over the years has been the proliferation of skinny houses, tall thin abodes jammed onto lots and eating up open space.

How many of my married readers remember the first meal that your spouse cooked and presented before you? I would guess unless the meal was truly memorable most of you have forgotten the details.

A Queens narcotics cop was robbed of his weapon and his car in an undercover gun-buy operation gone bad yesterday, law-enforcement sources said.

Somnath Pal, BS , MBA, PhD Professor of Pharmacy Administration College of Pharmacy & Allied Health Professions St.

Artvoice's weekly round-up of events to watch out for the week, including our editor's pick: the Nylon Summer Music Tour, making a stop this Friday the 19th at The Tralf.

Police are investigating the apparent drowning death of a baby at an informal day care in Queens Monday, authorities said.

MARY WASHINGTON of St. Albans wore a look of frustration on her face as she waited for the Q9 bus in downtown Jamaica one morning last week.

They claimed they lost their jobs, but 30 current and former state employees were hard at work scamming taxpayers out of tens of thousands of dollars in jobless benefits, officials said yesterday.

All About Jazz is celebrating Marcus Miller's birthday today! Marcus Miller Marcus Miller, winner of the Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Jazz Album of 2001, was born in Brooklyn in 1959 and raised in Jamaica, New York.