Investigators said Eric Gardner, 24, threatened a young Muslim mother and her infant son at knife-point because of their race and religion. Detectives said Gardner yelled at the woman, cursing and making derogatory comments, including \"You Muslim people scare people when you wear that clothing.\"
A woman being driven to Rhode Island’s mental hospital was struck by a bus transporting prisoners after she jumped out of a taxi and ran across the highway. The woman ran across the highway without her shirt on and police say she was struck by a bus carrying prisoners, presumably to court in Providence.
Three Muslim extremists were today jailed for an arson attack on a publisher after discovering he was going to produce a book about the Prophet Mohammed and his child bride. Martin Rynja had the door to his home in Lonsdale Square, Islington, doused in diesel and set ablaze days before the UK publication of\'The Jewel of Medina.
The FBI today released its study of 2008 bank robberies nationwide. Worst time to be in a bank branch: Tuesday from 9-11 a.m. That\'s when 1,803 robberies occurred; next worse was Wednesdays, 11 a.m. to 1 p.m., when 1,629 happened.
A Brooklyn woman is in critical condition after her husband hacked her repeatedly with a meat cleaver in their Dyker Heights apartment yesterday morning. 54-year-old Shao Ling Ye was sweeping up during breakfast when, according to her husband, Youshening Huang, \"She swept over my feet and that really sparked it.\"
The man accused of killing a prostitute last month and then dumping her remains near Eatonville asked his fifth-grade son to help get rid of the body, records show.
A politically correct, newly minted version of the Iron Cross — awarded to German soldiers since 1813, but withdrawn after the Second World War — was pinned on the chests of four senior non-commissioned officers yesterday.
A man drunk on mouthwash who performed oral sex on his unconscious sister in Rainbow Park was sentenced to jail-time served and three years probation Tuesday in Sarnia court. The 38-year-old pleaded guilty to committing an indecent act May 4 in the south Christina Street park.
President Barack Obama called on Tuesday for Russia to forge a true partnership with the United States, promoting democracy and the rule of law but avoiding direct criticism of the Kremlin.\\r\\rObama
Mobs of Han Chinese wielding meat cleavers and clubs and groups of Muslim Uighur men beat people in the streets of the capital of China\'s Xinjiang region Tuesday. The government imposed a curfew as it tried to stem communal violence after a riot that killed at least 156 people.
British weapons inspector Dr. David Kelly was writing an expose about his work with anthrax and his warnings that Iraq possessed no weapons of mass destruction at the time of his death in July 2003, according to a report published in a British newspaper.
U.S. President Obama and Russian President Dmitry Medvedev concluded a series of agreements Monday including one on nuclear arms reduction as part of a broader effort to strengthen ties between the one-time Cold War rivals.