Kings County News

New York City Comptroller William C. Thompson, Jr. sent us a statement yesterday regarding his refusal to register the $34 million design contract at the Brooklyn House of Detention.

Jesse Levitt is about to open a Coney Island-themed bar, The Minor Arcana, on Washington Avenue.

A fire inspector surveys the damage after a deadly fire ripped through a Brooklyn apartment Wednesday.

At the end of the long hallway in the intensive care unit at Kings County Hospital stood Yvonne Marreroa s daughter and niece.

Kings County District Attorney Charles J. Hynes today announced the conviction of Luis Rodriguez, 28, for the 2007 armed robbery of a Red Hook bar.

It was about 6:30 a.m. and two men had just driven over the Brooklyn Bridge and had parked their vehicle in front of the Kings County Supreme Court.

Victims are rushed to the hospital from this bodega at Kent Ave. and DeKalb Ave.

The Brooklyn Bar Association opened its doors on Tuesday night for an educational course on the practice of criminal law, taught by four experts in the field.

In the last three weeks, two female students at Kingsborough Community College have reported being groped and manhandled by unruly male classmates with apparent idle hands.

Mayor Bloomberg visited Bensonhurst last week as he courted votes for his third bid as Mayor of New York City.

November 6, 2009 Pro Bono Barrister Dave and Other Friends of Steve Cohn Enjoy Junior's Pumpkin Bash by Charles F Otey , published online 11-06-2009 A few weeks back, in this space, we wrote that, no matter what your opinion of the embattled Gov.

A self-proclaimed "Prince of Darkness," John S. Katehis, was due back in Kings County Supreme Court on Friday.

JAY STREET a ' Thursday an NYPD officer was arraigned in Kings County Supreme Court for allegedly killing a Brooklyn woman two months ago when he was driving drunk in Flatlands.

DOWNTOWN BROOKLYN a ' There will be two new judges in the County of Kings come 2010.

" Two Brooklyn Supreme Court justices presided from a makeshift bench at the Brooklyn Board of Elections office yesterday, where they were handling voting matters and helping resolve problems like when poll workers submit special ballots.

Three people were shot -- one fatally -- when gunfire erupted in the Wingate section of Brooklyn.

Three people were shot, one of them fatally, in Brooklyn early Tuesday morning. Police arrived at 834 Clarkson Avenue in East Flatbush at about 4:20 a.m. and discovered two men suffering gunshot wounds.

Williamsburg residents have been receiving a higher calling this week: an automated message from Brooklyn Bishop Nicholas DiMarzio urging voters to support Assemblymember and Kings County Democratic Chair Vito Lopez and his candidates in the election this Tuesday.

The City of Brooklyn was seven years old with a population of 35,500 when the first copy of the Brooklyn Daily Eagle came off the press on Oct.

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