Subway Victim’s Brutal End Stuns Friends From Her Happy Past
Debbie Kawam, as she was known in high school, was a cheerleader and a sunny presence. As the decades went on, she fell into ...
NYPD limits subway overtime hours — despite surging violence — in wake of Jeffrey Maddrey scandal: sources
Cops working extra shifts in the subway in the wake of several shocking crimes — including a woman fatally torched on a train ...
Subway crimes prompt Gov. Kathy Hochul to push for change to N.Y.'s involuntary commitment laws
Gov. Kathy Hochul says the recent surge in violence in the subway "cannot continue."It's been an especially violent few weeks ...
Subway Violence Stubbornly Defies All Efforts to Quell It
A string of attacks has riders devising their own strategies to stay safe, even after years of official efforts to make New ...
Knife-wielding maniac with 87 priors on the loose in NYC after two subway stabbings, cops say
A knife-wielding maniac with a history of mental illness and 53 prior arrests is wanted in connection with at least two ...
Daniel Penny’s prosecution was ‘BS’ and a ‘political trial,’ original NYC subway vigilante Bernie Goetz says
Goetz, 77, spoke to WABC's Frank Morano Dec. 10 about the Penny case, nearly 40 years to the day after he blasted a foursome ...
Police took over a week to name the NYC subway burning victim. A fake name spread in the meantime
It took police more than a week to publicly identify 57-year-old Debrina Kawam as the woman who was fatally set on fire in a ...
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Manhattan DA accuses man of slashing, pushing ex-girlfriend onto subway tracks
A 29-year-old man has been charged with attempted murder for allegedly slashing his ex-girlfriend with a razor blade before ...
Hochul proposes mental health law to curb violent NYC subway crime
Following a series of violent subway crimes allegedly committed by individuals with mental health issues, New York Gov. Kathy ...
New York governor to push for expanded mental health laws, citing violence on subway
New York Gov. Kathy Hochul says she will introduce legislation to expand the state’s involuntary commitment laws to allow ...
To curb NYC subway violence, Gov. Kathy Hochul seeks to expand mental health laws
The move comes after several high-profile violent incidents in the New York City subway system, including the death of a ...
Man killed by Brooklyn subway train, causing rush hour delays on No. 3 and 4 lines
The unidentified victim was struck by the train at the Sutter Ave.-Rutland station near E. 98th St. in Brownsville about 7:45 ...