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Tuesday, November 10, 2015

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Queens woman steals $80G in welfare: authorities

Yessenia Gonzalez (l.) with husband Frank Sollecito. Yessenia has been charged with submitting false applications for public benefits to the city’s Human Resources Administration for close to a decade.

Straphangers heave subway car off Queens man trapped, killed by J train

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Fatal shooting of 30-year-old man in East Flatbush caps off violent night in Brooklyn and Queens: officials

Police search for evidence along Church Ave. near East 54th St. in East Flatbush where a 30-year-old man was fatally shot around 4:00 a.m. Sunday morning.

Fire destroys two-story house being built in Forest Hills, Queens: police

Queens firefighters battled a suspicious 3 alarm blaze on 112 Street at 68 Avenue in Forest Hills where a house under construction was fully engulfed in flames and collapsed when firefighters arrived with flames spreading to 2 adjacent million dollar homes. Fire Marshals are investigating the cause of the blaze. ( Vic Nicastro / New York Daily News )

Marine veteran faces different battlefield as Queens prosecutor

U.S. Marine Corps Sgt. Suzanne Bettis, who is marching up Fifth Avenue in the New York City Veterans Day Parade November 11, brings the same passion she showed as a Marine in Iraq to her job as a Queens Assistant DA, where she handles arraignments, hearings, trials and investigations for alleged drug dealers, domestic abusers and other defendants. She served eight years in the Marines, including two 12-month tours in Iraq, rising to the rank of sergeant, with a specialty in Mortuary Affairs, volunteering to recover bodies from the battlefield.

CARIBBEAT: Benefit dinner/dance and awards event to aid Caribbean American Outreach Association

Worker takes a patron�s blood pressure and another fills out paperwork at the 2014 health fair in Queens, organized by the Caribbean American Outreach Association. The group, which aids people in the U.S. and the Caribbean, is holding its annual fundraising, dinner/dance, fashion show and award ceremony on Nov. 14.

Queens man found dead in Forest Park 

Cop cars trailed joggers and bicyclists in Forest Park on Sunday, one week after a senior was sexually assaulted there. Last Monday, a 69-year-old woman was attacked with a stun gun and raped inside the park near Myrtle Avenue at 4:30 p.m., police said.

Drunken driver arrested after falling asleep at wheel while waiting to pay toll for Midtown Tunnel: officials 

Efrain Ramirez (not pictured) fell asleep at the wheel of his car while waiting on the Queens side of the Midtown Tunnel. He was charged with drunken driving, and had over 40 bags of marijuana in his car as well.

Mayor de Blasio says despite 8 pedestrian deaths in 1 week, Vision Zero is working 

Agalia Gounaris of Flushing was crossing midblock on Main St. near Kissena Blvd. about 8:30 p.m. Thursday when she was struck by the right side front bumper of the massive bus, officials said.

EXCLUSIVE: Pilot of small plane that crashed in Breezy Point, Queens, was a Harvard-educated, retired Navy commander who got license 3 years ago, brother says

11-5-2015: Police recover the wreckage of the small plane that crashed yesterday off Breezy Point in Queens. Caption reads: #Harbor #SCUBA & @nycoem remove the plane wreckage from the @NYPD100Pct @uscoastguard dock to #FBF @NTSB @FAANews

College football player dies after getting caught in Halloween gunfire in Queens 

Marcus Mendez, 18, left, and Peyton Manwaring, 19, were fatally shot on Halloween night. Mendez died from the injuries on Wednesday.

EXCLUSIVE: Investigators for NYC district attorneys outraged that DAs want big raises

John Fleming, president of the Detective Investigators Association.

Dozens of additional court officers fill Queens court for gang trials

Security was high at Queens County Criminal Court in Kew Gardens Thursday during two high-profle gang trials.

New Yorkers remember The Great Northeastern Blackout of ‘65 as it marks its 50th anniversary 

Forty-second Street in New York City is lit by floodlights and automobile headlights during the massive power failure, Nov. 9, 1965, that affected New York State, most of New England, parts of New Jersey and Pennsylvania and Ontario, Canada. (AP Photo)

Man found dead in Queens home: cops

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Vermont man busted with 7 knives, stun gun in checked bag at JFK Airport 

Karma Tarchen, 43, of Burlington, Vermont, was arrested at JFK Airport for carrying seven knives and a stun gun in his checked bag, authorities said. Hen was arrested at Terminal 7 Wednesday morning,November 4, 2015, around 9 a.m. after Port Authority Police found knives and a gravity knife in a black bag, which he put through a screening device, authorities said. Tarchen told police he also had a stun gun in his bag.

EXCLUSIVE: New York City’s district attorneys seek 32% pay raise

Small plane crashes off Rockaway, Queens; body recovered

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Broadway icon to donate $150G to NYC public school music

NEW YORK, NY - OCTOBER 14: Andrew Lloyd Webber introduces the 'Your in the Band' 360 degree music video for 'School of Rock' at the Winter Garden Theatre on October 14, 2015 in New York City. (Photo by Walter McBride/WireImage)

EXCLUSIVE: Municipal Archives offer rare look at NYC history

Australian historian Shane White at the New York County Clerk Records office on Thursday, October 22, 2015 in New York, N.Y. (New York Daily News)

Rodgers won the first five-borough NYC Marathon in 1976

With his tongue hanging out of his mouth, Bill Rodgers of Melrose, Mass., crosses the finish line to win the 1976 New York City marathon, Sunday, Oct. 24, 1976. "This was ideal weather for me," said Rodgers, who finished a disappointing 40th at the Montreal Olympic Games. The marathon was run in cool uper forty and lower fifty degree temperatures. (AP photo/str/lw)
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NEW YORK - DECEMBER 23: Commuters board a bus near First Avenue December 23, 2005 in New York City. After three days of strikes New York City subways and buses returned to service, bringing normality back to millions of peoples morning and afternoon commutes. (Photo by Daniel Barry/Getty Images)

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