Queens News

A Queens driver has been arrested on vehicular manslaughter charges after crashing into a storefront, killing two of his passengers.

Police say the 28-year-old was arrested Saturday on charges that also include drunken driving.

A 29-year-old man and a 33-year-old man died in the 3:30 a.m. wreck on Rockaway Boulevard. A third passenger suffered minor injuries.

Police say the driver was unhurt. He has no listed phone number, and it is unclear whether he has a lawyer.

A rash of car crashes on New York City sidewalks over two days last month left 22 bystanders hurt. Four were seriously wounded in the four separate wrecks.

An NYPD lieutenant serving his country in the National Guard has died in Afghanistan , officials said Saturday.

An 8-year-old boy has drowned in a swimming pool in Queens.

Police say the boy was found unconscious in the pool on 136th Street in Flushing at 7 p.m. Friday. He was taken to New York Hospital Medical Center of Queens, where he was pronounced dead.

NEW YORK - Parts of Staten Island, the Bronx and Queens are being sprayed to control mosquitoes, which can spread illnesses including the West Nile Virus.

He joined the U.S. Army shortly after emigrating from Guyana, then reached back to help his mother and siblings join him in America.

New York prosecutors say the alleged operator of a $16 million smuggling and counterfeiting business has been arrested, and truckloads of knockoffs have been seized.

A 15-year-old Queens girl was fatally stabbed in the chest Wednesday night and city police arrested 39-year-old man in connection with the death, charging him with manslaughter.

Police have arrested a man in connection with the stabbing of a woman as she walked with her daughter near the Queensboro Bridge .

Angry over the attack on a 12-year-old girl, who had her long hair cut off by a fellow student, the third such incident within two months, the Sikh community in New York took out a protest march on Monday, ...

Officials say two Army National Guard soldiers based in western New York were killed during an ambush in Afghanistan.

The Sikh community in protesting an attack on a 12-year-old girl who had her long hair cut off by a fellow student.

The June 9 incident at Public School 219 in Flushing is the third incident in two months targeting a Sikh student in Queens. The hair cutting violates Sikh religious beliefs. School officials say the accused student was immediately suspended.

Sikhs and elected officials are marching through Richmond Hill, Queens, on Monday, then holding a rally at Richmond Hill High School.

Chef Fanco Amati stuffs cannoli shells at the Ferrara Bakery in New York's Little Italy Friday, June 27, 2008 in New York.

"I wish I was there so I could thank the judge." Those were the first words of an imprisoned Queens man when he learned a judge had granted him a new trial after 13 years behind bars.

A Queens man was arrested Thursday and charged in connection with a shooting at a Jones Beach parking lot, New York State Park police said.

Stephen G. Louden, 20, of 104-29 Farmers Blvd. in St. Albans, was arrested in Queens with the help of State Police and charged with four felonies and a misdemeanor. The arrest followed a joint investigation into the June 9 shooting, which began as a dispute on the beach and ended with a 19-year-old Queens man being shot in the face in a tunnel to a parking lot. Police chased the suspects on the Southern State Parkway.

A 15-year-old Queens girl was stabbed to death by a man who claims he was trying to defend himself from a pack of 10 teens upset he had argued with a woman on a bus, police said yesterday.

QUEENS RESIDENTS CAN ACCESS A RIDE TO NASSAU Assemblywoman Audrey Pheffer recently announced that the city's Access-a-Ride program will now travel across the city border into Nassau County.

Art in New York City this summer is not just what's hanging on museum walls. It's on the water, it's on a rooftop, it's an entire building.

Country singer Tim McGraw lays down the law during a concert, and the whole thing was caught on camera.

NEW YORK - A small fire in a John F. Kennedy International Airport air traffic control tower has been put out by firefighters.

Three terror suspects accused of plotting to blow up Kennedy Airport were extradited Tuesday night from Trinidad and were flown to the United States to face arraignment in a Brooklyn courtroom Wednesday, ...