Crime and Public Safety

A man was fatally stabbed at a Brooklyn playground Tuesday morning, police said.

Community leaders in Queens are rallied for a safer Roosevelt Avenue after a shooting outside a barbershop in Corona.

Police are investigating after a 7-year-old girl was shot in the abdomen in Manhattan on Monday afternoon.

Nicholas Hamlett was captured in South Carolina after allegedly killing a man in Tennessee.

Authorities say the woman grabbed an ice climbing axe, tripped and strangled her father with the tool, before attacking him with it.

A Spirit Airlines flight out of Florida was struck by gunfire on Monday while making a landing in Port-au-Prince in Haiti on Monday.

A jury in the small Indiana town of Delphi convicted a man of murder on Monday in the 2017 killings of two teenage girls who vanished during an afternoon hike.

A man was stabbed to death at a lounge in Queens overnight, police said.

A Homecoming Week shooting at Tuskegee University in Alabama left one person dead and 16 others injured, 12 of them by gunfire, school officials said.

A man has been arrested for allegedly grabbing a young boy and trying to separate him from his father while walking in Brooklyn, police said.

Three people were injured when a bus crashed after an MTA driver suffered a medical episode in Queens on Sunday morning, MTA officials said.

Hungarian officials have a 37-year-old suspect in custody, who is said to have divulged details of the Oregon woman's death.

Oklahoma City police have released bodycam footage of an October 17 incident in which an officer tackled a 70-year-old man during a dispute over a traffic violation.

Officials say one of 43 monkeys bred for medical research that escaped a compound in South Carolina has been recovered unharmed.

Long Island police are intensifying efforts against illegal street racing after a weekend of chaotic car "takeovers" in Suffolk County.