Kings County News

BROOKLYN Kings County District Attorney Charles Hynes Wednesday announced the sentencing of Darryl Littlejohn, 44, to life in prison without parole, for the murder of John Jay College graduate student Imette St.

Georgina MacDonald of Sussex Corner grew up in Hammondvale and was a childhood friend of Winifred Fowler, whose father was a cousin of Gladys Winifred Fowler, the Canadian daughter whose coffin was discovered in London.

" On the eve of Scouting's 100th anniversary next year, the Brooklyn Council of the Boy Scouts of America held its annual Bay Ridge Breakfast for Scouting with "Scout's honors" for four civic leaders who promote and represent the values held by scouting.

Meanwhile, Kings County District Attorney Charles J. Hynes has been praising the success of his DTAP program for drug addicted offenders.

" There's an old proverb that justice delayed is justice denied. The Brooklyn judiciary takes that motto seriously.

A state correction officer was shot and killed early Sunday outside a barber shop he frequented at 658 Nostrand Ave, the police are saying.

A correction officer who was on leave from work was shot dead on a street in Brooklyn after a dispute with another man early on Sunday, the authorities said.

The probe into Friday's armed hold-up of Brooklyn day care center took a stunning twist today, when cops said they found 10 pounds of marijuana and $100,000 cash hidden inside the child facility.

Police officers, responding to an attempted robbery at a Brooklyn day care center on Friday afternoon, shot a man who had stormed into the center and pointed a gun at arriving officers as a group of frightened children stood nearby, the authorities said.

A drug suspect being transported in a police van was hit with random gunfire that sprayed across a Brooklyn street early today, cops said.

District Attorney Charles Hynes and 542 Hancock Street in Brooklyn, which Nathaniel McLeon allegedly pretended he had the authority to sell The Kings County Mortgage Fraud and Real Estate Crimes Unit, which was launched in March , has indicted eight people and opened more than 80 mortgage fraud cases, Senator Charles Schumer and Kings County ...

Gunfire that struck a police van has wounded a suspect being transported through Brooklyn.

KINGS COUNTY, NY, June 20, 2009 /24-7PressRelease/ -- Consumer Priority Service, a leader in the field of service plans unveils new upgrades and features for its web based customer software called CCO .

Staffers at a Brooklyn hospital falsified medical records and lied to authorities in an attempt to cover up the neglect of a patient who died on the waiting room floor, according to city investigators.

Artist Dawn Petrlik's installation piece "The Lonely Death of Esmin Green." The city is on the verge of letting the feds monitor the Kings County Hospital psychiatric ward, one year after the death-by-neglect of patient Esmin Green .

In a classic case of "I want to be just like my Mommy when I grow up," a Brooklyn man is being charged for impersonating his dead mother in an elaborate 6-year scheme to collect her Social Security benefits and rent subsidies.

A Long Island teenager died after he was shot in the head by the host of a party at an apartment in the Bensonhurst section of Brooklyn over the weekend, PIX News has learned.

DATE: Sunday June 14, 2009, 11:30 p.m. LOCATION: In front of 1054 Dean St. A Brooklyn man was shot in the torso and managed to drag himself several blocks before he collapsed.

Philip Levy, 17, of Wantagh, was killed Saturday night in Brooklyn. The man who killed a Wantagh teen while horse playing with a pistol in a Brooklyn apartment Saturday night fired several shots into a wall before the fatal accident, a prosecutor told a judge Monday.

Cops were questioning a Brooklyn mother Sunday night after the death of her 2-month-old baby, police said.