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NY Police Crack Down on Discount Buses; Poor Safety Records Cited

New York police took a half-dozen tour buses off the road for violations as investigators probed the cause of two fatal crashes involving discount coaches and federal officials interviewed the driver involved in a weekend wreck that killed 15 people. Police on Tuesday set up a checkpoint in Chinatown, where the buses...

Death Toll Rises to 15 in Casino Bus Crash

The death toll from the horrific weekend bus crash on a New York highway rose to 15 today after a 70-year-old man died from his injuries, according to news reports. The man, who was not identified, died at St. Barnabas Hospital in the Bronx, where he had been taken after Saturday's crash in "very serious condition," The...

Officials: 13 Dead in NYC Tour Bus Accident

NEW YORK - Thirteen people died Saturday when a bus returning to New York City from a casino overturned on a highway and was sliced in half by the support pole for a large sign. The driver, who survived, told police he lost control while trying to evade a swerving tractor trailer. Police began a hunt for the truck, which...

Kool Herc Hospitalized: 5 Facts on a Hip-Hop Founding Father [VIDEO]

Pioneering hip-hop artist Kool Herc has been hospitalized because of a serious illness, friends say, and lacks health insurance to cover his medical bills. The 55-year-old Herc (born Clive Campbell) is "very sick," according to Sirius XM's DJ Premier, though specifics about his condition have not been released. On his...

Mystery Surrounds Death of Harlem Teen Found in the Snow

NEW YORK -- Sha-Sha Price didn't think she had to worry about her son Gregory. Price says the 17-year-old was a "happy, loving kid" who walked his little brother to school every day, always called to let her know where he was and never got into trouble with the law, or anyone else. And she says her son was a "mama's boy"...

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PHOTOS: Chris Arnade's 'Jose The Amazing' Offers Look At Bronx Parkour

Chris Arnade, one of our favorite New York City photographers , stumbled across a talented, young practitioner of parkour in the Bronx earlier this year.

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Funeral Held For Seven Bronx Zoo Crash Victims

Seven hearses â one for each of the victims â pulled up to an old brick church in the Bronx on Friday for the funeral for seven family members who died in a horrific highway accident that sent their SUV hurling over a guardrail and into a ravine.

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06/03/12 Bronx locals mark 200th anniversary of the start of... Source: New York Daily News - New York NY At the tender age of 9, with his father's blessing, a precocious David Glasgow Farragut enlisted in the U.S. Navy. the War of 1812.
06/03/12 Monet's Garden blooms in Bronx Source: The Chronicle Herald Claude Monet's beloved flower and water gardens in the north of France are world-famous.
06/01/12 Manhattan College picks up Bronx native Pankey Source: New York Post - New York NY Former Archbishop Molloy and St. Anthony of Jersey City standout Ashton Pankey will transfer to Manhattan College, sources told The Post. The 6-foot-9 forward, who spent two years at Maryland and is known for his rebounding and shot-blocking acumen, visited Manhattan on Friday after seeing Iona and Fordham earlier in the week.
06/01/12 Bronx man gets 4 life terms for 1990 slaying of... Source: LoHud.com - White Plains NY Freddie Tony El Turbo Gonzalez was sentenced today to four life terms in federal prison without parole, 22 years after he shot and killed a married couple in their Yonkers home before killing two other people in the Bronx and Queens.
06/01/12 Bronx Business: Jerome Pharmacy Merges With Rite Aid Source: Norwood News - Bronx NY After six years of doing business in Norwood, Jerome Pharmacy abruptly closed shop a few weeks ago.

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The Bronx is the northernmost of the five boroughs of New York City. It is also known as Bronx County, the last of the 62 counties of New York State to be incorporated.

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