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Three people were stabbed to death within a 12-hour span over Memorial Day weekend, the NYPD said Monday. Cops found Deidre Borders, 56, with multiple stab wounds to her torso in the bedroom of her Staten Island home around 11:45 a.m. Sunday, cops said. A second-floor tenant called cops to the two-family home on Osgood...

Cops are looking for a driver in a Harlem hit-and-run that left a pedestrian in critical condition late Sunday night. The 57-year-old man was found lying injured on Lenox Avenue near W. 125 Street just after 11 p.m., according to police. Cops believe he was struck by a dark-colored Jeep Grand Cherokee after crossing the...

A New Jersey man tried to kidnap a nurse at her home one day after she cared for him as a patient at a hospital, police said. Leonardo Larrarte, of Lakewood, is facing charges in the violent attack on the nurse who fended him off Friday with a knife at her home in Howell Township,...

A man says a Long Island priest sexually abused him when he was a teen — and that church investigators are now trying to intimidate him into silence, new court papers show. Greg Hein, 52, says in a Nassau County lawsuit that Father Gregory Cappuccino repeatedly molested him in the sacristy and rectory of St....

Memorial Day has become even more heart-wrenching amid the coronavirus. With much of the nation on lockdown, grieving kin of late military veterans have been left to honor their relatives without the support of traditional parades or group graveside remembrances. And for some families of veterans, the contagion will not only prevent special public commemorations Monday,...

A University of Connecticut senior is accused of killing two men and injuring another in two separate attacks before fleeing the state in a stolen car on Sunday, a report said. Peter Manfredonia, who is considered armed and dangerous, was last seen in East Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania on Sunday night, authorities said. Manfredonia, a Newtown native,...

A man was arrested Sunday night for allegedly menacing an Asian woman in Manhattan while screaming “Wuhan, you’re the reason,” law enforcement sources said. Nikolas Long, 38, is accused of threatening the 44-year-old victim with a glass bottle at about 7:30 p.m. on 6th Avenue near West 11th Street in Greenwich Village, sources said. His...

A Long Island bar got into hot water over the weekend after apparently allowing dozens of customers inside the establishment to drink beverages in violation of the state’s coronavirus shutdown. Videos posted on social media showed scores of maskless people packed inside the Dublin Deck Tiki Bar and Grill in Patchogue on Friday night as...

Long Island Rail Road trains will run with extra cars to accommodate social distancing in time for the island’s anticipated reopening from the coronavirus this week, Gov. Andrew Cuomo said Sunday. “Long Island is on track to meet the numbers on Wednesday,” said Cuomo, referring to the seven state metrics for reopening measuring hospital admissions,...

New coronavirus hospitalizations and the daily death toll have ticked up slightly, Gov. Andrew Cuomo said Sunday — troubling blips amid the disease’s overall decline. Some 229 New Yorkers have been hospitalized with COVID-19, according to the three-day rolling average through Saturday, Cuomo said in a press briefing at Jones Beach Theatre in Wantagh, Long...