The early morning eviction of a Harlem family nearly two years ago has led to the arrests of 16 people this week in connection with criminal abuses of federal mortgage loan programs meant for poor neighborhoods, officials said Wednesday. The man charged with capital murder in the shooting death of a rookie sheriff's deputy was granted a court-appointed lawyer today. Instead, Torrent instantly discovered that the men at the door were no deliverymen, as one pointed a 9mm handgun at her and shoved his way inside, followed by four accomplices. The jawbone was found on an Ishkooda street. More bones, including a skull, were found one year later and several streets over.
Investigators now know all of the bones belong to the same person - a grown woman of Asian descent.
A woman who was found dead in a burning building her hands tied behind her back had been stabbed and beaten before dying in the fire, authorities said Wednesday. A former mental patient, convicted of attempted murder for pushing a man into the path of an oncoming subway train and causing his legs to be severed, was sentenced Wednesday to 25 years in prison. One suspect has been arrested and two others were being sought Wednesday in the execution-style slayings of a Barnegat Township woman and her son, authorities said. The U.S. Justice Department is launching a full-scale investigation of the Detroit Police Department, identified by the Free Press as having the highest rate of fatal police shootings among America's largest cities, federal officials said Tuesday. Dr. Dirk K. Greineder.