Brooklyn News

It's the most wonderful time of the year - unless you're Mike Jordings, the manager of a simple Key Food in Windsor Terrace.

On Sunday, the British-born local DJ Solange Raulston, better known around Brooklyn as DJ Reverend Soul , was killed riding her bike at the intersection of Nassau Avenue and McGuinness Boulevard.

A young father was gunned down inside a Brooklyn roominghouse early Sunday after a wild fight over bathroom rights, police and witnesses said.

A fight over an elliptical at a Brooklyn gym left a social worker murdered and two men on the run.

An elderly woman was fatally struck by an ambulance rushing a patient to the hospital in the Bath Beach section of Brooklyn.

Dr. Dog brought the snow to Brooklyn Bowl photos by Tim Griffin Dr. Dog brought holiday spirit to their sold out " July in Christmas " show at Brooklyn Bowl on Friday night .

The U.S. government's move this fall to cut off funding to ACORN was unconstitutional, a Brooklyn federal court judge ruled Friday, handing the embattled group a legal victory.

Share + Dec 14, 2009 10:00 pm US/Central 1 of 1 Federal prosecutors are considering sending a Guantanamo Bay detainee named Majid Khan -- who grew up in Maryland before allegedly enlisting with al-Qaeda -- to face trial in New York, a person familiar with the discussions said Monday.

On Friday, Dec. 11, at approximately 7 p.m., New Canaan police charged four men from Brooklyn, N.Y., for reportedly shoplifting from Rugby on Elm Street.

Terrible. The British-born Solange Raulston, 33, performed as DJ Reverend Soul .

Share + Dec 14, 2009 7:53 am US/Eastern Reporting Magee Hickey NEW YORK 1 of 1 A police officer marks off the area where Hugo Jansen, 75, was struck and killed by a dark SUV in a hit-and-run accident on Dec.

New York Gov. David Paterson on Sunday ordered that 10 percent of state aid payments to schools and local governments be delayed, accusing legislators of being irresponsible and asleep on the job.

NEW YORK, NY December 09, 2009 a ' City Hall isn't denying there was a deal to remove a controversial bike lane that runs through a Hasidic neighborhood in Williamsburg, Brooklyn.

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Police are still looking for answers in the shooting of a Brooklyn drummer who was found dead in his apartment Friday.

U.S. Jewish boxer Dmitriy Salita was stopped 1:16 into his World Boxing Association light-welterweight championship bout.

In the unofficial survey of programs for July 2008 through April 2009, the organization found that state budget strains are forcing some programs to reject people who would otherwise qualify for free mammograms and Pap smears.

Dozens of activists, politicians and relatives of hate crimes victims were among those at Make the Road New York earlier today who marked the first anniversary of Jose Sucuzhanay's death.

Three people, two from Brooklyn and one from Queens, have been arrested after police in Valley Stream, Long Island say they tried to hold up a jewelry store.

Troy Young, a rock drummer who played with the Spines, was found shot in the heart in his apartment in Carroll Gardens, Brooklyn.