Topic: Amadou Diallo

Next up for protesters: Occupy the Courts.. . Lawyers representing about 800 Occupy Wall Street protesters arrested in the past month demand that...
A former FDNY official shed light on a troubling back-room practice that helped white firefighter candidates get hired despite having criminal...
FDNY hiring practices were scrutinized Monday as a top department official was questioned about the hiring of two white former cops who beat murder...
Police dealt a stunning blow to two warring Bronx gangs, arresting 19 alleged drug dealers suspected in a dozen shootings and other mayhem in...
The number 6 train click-clacked on the elevated tracks a block away as Ashley Hahn hurried through the cold down Wheeler Ave., past a mural of...

Sharpton: King's dream, nearly fulfilled

In April of this year, it will be 43 years since the assassination of this nation's premier civil rights leader, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. During...
The head of Niger's air force has been arrested on suspicion of involvement in an alleged plot for which other senior officers were held last month, a government source said Wednesday.The source said Colonel Hassane Mossi, a member of the ...
People Who Get Shot By Cops Generally Deserve It Undercover detectives had been there due to the criminal reputation of the place and had heard a man in Bell's group say he was going to get his gun before the men ...
Malcolm Gladwell is a staff writer for the New Yorker; before that, he was a business and science writer for the Washington Post. " That encounter set Malcolm Gladwell thinking about the power of first impressions: Gladwell starts with a concept he refers ...
The four "hatched the plot which has been foiled and which consisted of putting an end to the transition, including an attack on the life" of junta chief General Salou Djibo, according to the statement read on public radio.The text was ...