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With four more weeks before the close of the year, the country has recorded 557 murders, the highest ever but police say there is an uptick in the number of cases being "solved." On November 16, when Sunday Newsday spoke with Snr Supt Rishi Singh, head of the Homicide Bureau of Investigations, the murder toll

A large manhunt for multiple suspects continues on Martha's Vineyard Friday morning after a bank was robbed at gunpoint on on the island on Thursday.

A bank was robbed at gunpoint on Martha's Vineyard Thursday morning, police said, with the FBI part of the investigation that, for a time, spanned the Vineyard...

The officer was nearing 28th Ave. and 23rd St. in Astoria when two crooks in hoodies exited a car and charged at him, police said.

Roshane Allen, 30, of Williamsbridge was charged with murder, criminal possession of a weapon, assault and menacing, cops said. He was awaiting arraignment Friday evening.

A 13-year-old girl was among five people who were shot and wounded in New Grant on Saturday night.

Police are probing the murders of two men and the wounding of another at a bar in Caroni early on Sunday morning.

Relatives of Peola Baptiste are planning a prayer vigil on Saturday at the spot where she and two of her colleagues were shot. Baptiste, a security guard, was shot in the head during a deadly robbery in La Romaine last week.

A woman who was dismembered and her body parts stuffed into two suitcases inside a Brooklyn apartment last week died from multiple stab wounds, the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner said Tuesday.

By Friday, NYPD detectives had forwarded an investigative card about the boyfriend to patrol units throughout the city, indicating that he should be immediately taken into custody if spotted, police sources said.