• Man executed in brazen Bronx afternoon shooting

    Man executed in brazen Bronx afternoon shooting
    Police in the Bronx are on the hunt for a gunman who shot a man dead Sunday afternoon in the borough’s second deadly shooting in less than 24 hours.
    According to police sources, officers from the 48th Precinct rushed to East 182nd Street and Mapes Avenue at around 1:50 p.m. on Sept. 29 after receiving reports of gunfire. The responding officers discovered a 29-year-old man unresponsive on the street with a gunshot wound to the head.
    EMS pronounced him dead at the scene. Police have withhel
  • At Bronx church, Mayor Adams again vows to work through criminal indictment: ‘I’m not going to resign, I’m going to reign’

    At Bronx church, Mayor Adams again vows to work through criminal indictment: ‘I’m not going to resign, I’m going to reign’
    Mayor Eric Adams told Bronx churchgoers on Sunday that he would not let the criminal indictment against him prevent him from continuing to serve the people of New York.
    Speaking to members of the Emmanuel Presbyterian Reformed Church, who greeted him with warm applause during the congregation’s 25th -anniversary celebration, on Sept. 29, Hizzoner dispelled the calls for him to step down as mayor in the wake of the five-count indictment charging him with allegedly committing bribery, fraud
  • Bronx double shooting leaves man dead, second victim wounded: cops

    Bronx double shooting leaves man dead, second victim wounded: cops
    A Bronx double shooting on Sunday morning left one man dead and another hospitalized with injuries, police said.
    The gun violence erupted at about 1:07 a.m. on Sept. 29 in front of an apartment building at 2693 Morris Ave. in Kingsbridge Heights.
    Officers from the 52nd Precinct, in responding to a 911 call about a man shot, found two victims at the location: Alvin Ortiz, 33, of Newburgh, who was shot in the left arm and chest; and a 36-year-old man who sustained bullet wounds to his left arm and
  • Anthony Rizzo injury: Yankees 1B suffers fractured finger in loss to Pirates Saturday

    Anthony Rizzo injury: Yankees 1B suffers fractured finger in loss to Pirates Saturday
    BRONX, NY — New York Yankees first baseman Anthony Rizzo fractured his right hand off a pitch at the bottom of the seventh inning by Pirates reliever Ryan Borucki, revealed manager Aaron Boone.
    “We’ll see what we have as the week moves forward. It doesn’t totally rule him out,” Boone said. “It’s something that’s a pain tolerance thing, so we’ll see as the days unfold here what we have.”
    The pitch broke a bone between Rizzo’s fourt
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  • Paul Skenes dazzles, shuts down Yankees as Pirates win 2nd straight

    Paul Skenes dazzles, shuts down Yankees as Pirates win 2nd straight
    The Yankees will have to wait a little bit longer to lock up the No. 1 seed in the American League as they dropped their second consecutive game to the Pittsburgh Pirates 9-4 on Saturday.
    Luis Gil allowed four home runs in his start which was a season high, and the Yankees could not overcome the large lead the Pirates built. But all the storylines of the game will surround Anthony Rizzo, who, in the seventh inning, took a foul ball to the hand, which fractured the area between his right fourth a

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