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Probation officials are investigating how a man charged with possessing child pornography managed to cut off his electronic monitoring bracelet before carjacking a woman at a mall, fatally stabbing her and raping her 10-year-old-daughter, authorities said.

Republican Assemblyman Steve Katz has been charged with marijuana possession after a Thursday morning traffic stop on the Thruway. The 59-year-old was initially stopped at 10 a.m. for allegedly driving 80 mph northbound on the toll road close by the town of Coeymans.

A homeless man allegedly pretended to be a doctor and used the hospital as a place to live. Norton security officers told police Patrick Campbell was dressed in scrubs, a lab coat and a surgical mask while on a "highly case sensitive" computer at the time he was caught.

A 10-month-old baby is miraculously alive today, after surviving a fall from an eighth-story Harlem apartment -- by landing on his mother's chest. Cindy Bacharach, a 44-year-old lawyer, leapt out of her apartment window yesterday afternoon while clutching the child after an argument with her husband, police tell the New York Post. She was pronounced dead at the scene. The husband had apparently left the apartment an hour before her jump, sources tell DNAInfo.

Authorities in upstate New York say the suspected gunman in a rampage at a car wash and a barbershop that left four people dead and two wounded has been killed by police in a shootout.

Four people have been shot dead at a car wash and a barber shop in upstate New York, state police told NBC affiliate WKTV, and at least two others were shot and injured. The shootings occurred at John's Barber Shop in Herkimer and Gaffey's Car Wash in Mohawk, neighboring towns that lie roughly halfway between Syracuse and Albany.

Surveillance videos captures a drive-by shooting early Monday near the Capitol building in Washington that left 11 people injured. Washington, D.C., police released the video on YouTube and called on the public to help identify two "vehicles of interest in an Assault with Intent to Kill incident."

A Florida doctor told a pregnant patient that he would call the cops on her if she didn’t have an emergency caesarean section because the baby was a week past his due date. The Tampa Bay Times reports that Dr. Jerry Yankowitz, chairman of the obstetrics and gynecology at the University of Southern Florida, sent the threatening email to 35-year-old Lisa Epsteen.

A Long Island man's laughter is no laughing matter to his next-door neighbor. Robert Schiavelli, 42, has been issued a pair of tickets by police for disturbing the peace after next-door neighbor Daniel O’Hanian called the police because he said Schiavelli was laughing too loud out his window.

Hilton Botha had already been pulled from the Oscar Pistorius murder case after prosecutors reinstated attempted murder charges against him in an unrelated 2011 case.