Staten-Island News

A bus carrying 35 elementary school children on an outing has caught fire on a New York City bridge, but the children and their escorts have been rescued.

Carmine Sciandra, 57, Eltingville, is the alleged leader of a loansharking operation that threatened victims with violence if they didn't pay.

A city Sanitation Department chief; his father-in-law, an alleged Gambino family soldier; the owner of the popular Staten Island supermarket chain, Top Tomato, long-suspected by locals of having mob ties; and a New York State Court Officer are among 22 people arrested today in an organized crime takedown on Staten Island.

Police are on the scene of Austin and Cedar avenues after a person was found dead in the street near the intersection.

NEW YORK - A New York pastor accused of using church funds to pay for plastic surgery has been ordered to serve five years probation.

An ex-con packing heat was shot and killed Wednesday on Staten Island , law enforcement sources said.

William Cosidente Jr., swept up in mob bust, is led from 120th Precinct station in St.

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Mafia suspect Frederick Grimaldi is walked by an NYPD and NY State Attorney General agent outside the 120 Precinct, Staten Island, Wednesday.

But the three guests from Staten Island allegedly paid the elderly lady back by distracting her, going through her belongings and lifting $500 cash.

Water has been restored to all customers that were affected by a water main break on Staten Island this morning.

A large water main break flooded streets and closed Victory Boulevard through the Travis section of Staten Island.

New Brighton resident Kevin White was shot and killed by cops during a brawl at a Brooklyn bar Sunday.

Police officers look at bullet casings at York Avenue and Van Tuyl Street, New Brighton.

A 43-year-old New Brighton man was shot in the neck and killed by police early yesterday morning, during a chaotic brawl in a Brooklyn bar that also left a gun-blazing 19-year-old patron of the club hospitalized.

DATE: Monday, Nov. 16, 2009 12:27 a.m. LOCATION: In front of 44 Yale Street, Staten Island.

Mayor Bloomberg said today the city plans to revitalize historic Coney Island in an effort to make it " the greatest seaside sensation anywhere in the world." These were his remarks as prepared for delivery on 1010 WINS News Radio: "Few areas of our city inspire as much nostalgia as Coney Island .

The 44th annual Miss Staten Island and Miss Staten Island's Outstanding Teen competition will be held tonight at New Dorp High School, New Dorp.

A New York City bus driver who hit and killed a pedestrian on his first day back from a texting-while-driving suspension has been issued a traffic ticket.

MAMARONECK - Seth Kahn was a 22-year-old studying to be a toy designer when a New York City bus mowed him down on the day its driver returned from a texting-while-driving suspension.