A University of Iowa study suggests that African-American women have great odds of obtaining loans from lenders, and their rate of success is comparable to…
Malik Taylor (pictured), a former dean of the Business of Sports School, is accused of sleeping with four students, attempting to sleep with another four,…
Minerva Zanca (pictured), principal of the Elmhurst, New York-based Pan-American International High School, is reportedly being accused of referring to a number of African-American teachers at…
NEW YORK — A woman clutching her baby son in her arms plunged eight stories out of an apartment window to her death in an apparent suicide on Wednesday, but the baby survived, police said. Cynthia Wachenheim was found on the street with her son, 10-month-old Keston, near her arms. A police officer who responded […]
A female prison guard has been charged with rape after having sex with a male inmate at a maximum-security state prison in the Hudson Valley, Fox News 5 New York reports. State police say that Tyshinia Love Brewster was in a sexual relationship with an inmate at Downstate Correctional Facility in Fishkill. She has been employed there for 7 […]
A bulky Queens, New York gym teacher is claiming that he was violently attacked by a six-year-old 1st-grader back in April. John Webster told The New York Post that six-year-old Rodrigo Carpio “fractured his ankle, injured his knee and forced him to go to a shrink for stress.” The kid was only 50 pounds at the time. […]
Even in the fast-moving world of information flow, the response to a video showing the bullying of an upstate bus monitor is a stunning example of the power of people in the new, Me-Media era. The video shows four seventh-grade boys cruelly taunting 68-year-old bus monitor Karen Klein outside Rochester, N.Y. It has been viewed […]
ROCHESTER, N.Y. (AP) — The upstate New York bus monitor who was the target of a videotaped verbal assault at the hands of four middle schoolers does not want the boys to face criminal charges. Police in the Rochester suburb of Greece say 68-year-old Karen Klein is happy with the swift and strong community response […]
Despite stern and unrelenting protest from parents, educators and even Occupy Department of Education demonstrators, nearly 50 New York City public schools are slated for shutdown this summer, increasing the overall total of such targeted institutions well into triple-digits over the last decade and charting the course for what community activists are terming a “take-no-prisoners, […]
NEW YORK (AP) — Dominique Strauss-Kahn is suing the hotel housekeeper who accused him of sexually assaulting her, saying she seriously damaged his reputation with what he calls a bogus allegation. The former International Monetary Fund leader and French presidential hopeful struck back at maid Nafissatou Diallo’s lawsuit against him with denials and a $1 […]
It’s ironic in a city with some of the most expensive hotels and restaurants in the world, but many of New York’s best attractions are free. So many, in fact, that it’s hard to narrow them down. Most New Yorkers would probably agree that at least a few of the five free things on this […]
Explosive testimony in a New York City police department discrimination suit alleges that a pair of high-ranking superiors who once oversaw the day-to-day operations of an elite anti-gun unit ruled with such an iron hand they arbitrarily delegated which white suspects should be treated with respect, even as they routinely browbeat underlings into thinking all […]
