Police say that an off-duty police officer fatally shot a man who was trying to mug him at Broadway and Grove Street in the Bushwick section of Brooklyn. According to WABC 7, two men approached the cop: “One of the men simulated holding a gun while the other knocked the victim down to the ground with a cane. The detective opened fire on the muggers, hitting the cane-wielding suspect once in the chest.” [ more › ]
The grandmother of 12-year-old Dashane Santana, who was struck and killed by a car crossing Delancey Street last week, is in the midst of raising the $8,500 for Dashane’s funeral while she grieves for her granddaughter. “Right now we need about $3,000 by Tuesday,” Teresa Pedroza tells us. “It’s coming in little by little.” Pedroza has sold candy and gone door-to-door asking for donations, which yielded around $600. She hopes that two fundraisers she’s organizing, one today and another tomorrow, will be enough. “All this is out of the blue. Her birthday is in February—we’re supposed to be celebrating that. Now I’m planning a funeral.” [ more › ]
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Family Of 12-Year-Old Killed On Delancey Raising Money For Funeral
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Extra, Extra: Millions Love The Dowager Countess
We all cringed at the recently-released montage of nail-biting car crashes in New Jersey caused by drivers who run red lights. The company who provides the most red light cameras in the country, American Traffic Solutions, noted that 11 people were killed in the state in 2009 as a resulting of red-light running related collisions. But Monmouth County assemblyman Declan O’Scanlon believes that they’re a scam. “They’re ATMs in reverse—your money goes in and it never comes out,” the Republican tells the Star-Ledger. [ more › ]
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Red Light Cameras: Nanny-State Nuisance Or Life-Saving Technology?
On Thursday night, an 11-year-old Bronx boy was shot in the stomach by a bullet that came through the door of his second-floor apartment. Today, police said they have arrested 17-year-old suspect Kijana Jenkins, one of the two alleged shooters. He was charged with assault, criminal possession of a weapon and reckless endangerment. While his accomplice is still at large, victim Ryan Aguirre is recovering from the incident: “He is doing much better. We’re all still praying for him, but he’s feeling much better,” his mother told the Daily News. [ more › ]
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Suspect Arrested In Shooting Of Bronx 11-Year-Old
[Update Below] The family of the 73-year-old woman who died after she was set on fire in a Prospect Heights elevator earlier this month still haven’t been able to bury her—and even the people who pledged to help them haven’t done so. The family of Deloris Gillespie, who was allegedly killed by Jerome Isaac, spoke out yesterday about the hardships they’ve gone through since the horrific crime took place: “This family has been victimized twice. First by a madman and now by a gentleman who has shown depraved indifference to their plight,” said Councilmember Letitia James, referring to a Manhattan hedge fund manager and his friend who had pledged to help pay for a memorial service today, but never gave the money. [ more › ]
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[Update] Family Of Brooklyn Woman Set On Fire In Elevator Feel Victimized Twice
Click here to view the full photogallery. Former Playboy centerfold Barbi Benton and her husband, the sartorially daring real estate developer George Gradow, currently have their longtime Bel Air, Calif. home listed for $11.95M. Benton, who spent quite a few of her early years living with Playboy founder Hugh Hefner, has been splitting her time between Bel Air and Aspen, Colo., where she and Gradow own a spectacular hillside structure. Gradow, who made much of his money through investment in mobile home parks, recently spent a few years in the federal pen, courtesy of a conviction for tax fraud. Soon after his release in 2008, the couple listed this sprawling, 11,600-square-foot mansion for $17.5M, but after a series of price chops (and one price hike) the price is down to a lowly $11.95M. The house looks like it could be a product of the ’70s, but was actually built in 1990, and sits on 2.75 acres with views over the nearby hilltops to the city. · Barbi Benton Lists Los Angeles Dream House [The Real Estalker]
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Celebrity Real Estate: Busty Brunette Barbi Benton Lists Her Bel Air Dream House
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Extra, Extra: Rudy Giuliani Has Exploited 9/11 For Money
After spending the last two decades of her long reclusive life living in hospitals, Gilded Age copper heiress Huguette Clark died earlier this year at age 104. At once, the jackals descended —actually, they descended well before her death, it seems. The Manhattan DA is currently investigating Clark’s lawyer, Wallace Bock, and her accountant, Irving Kamsler, for their handling of Clark’s affairs. Her lawyer has a will that shows Clark didn’t want to give any money to her family, but now the family is in possession of a different will, signed by Clark, that says she DID intend them to have a big inheritance! Fire up some Jiffy Pop and hit the Drama Button —this is gonna get petty. [ more › ]
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In Surprise Twist, Family Of Dead Copper Heiress Have Will That Says They Get Money!
The holiday shopping season isn’t all billion dollar weekends —it is also prime shoplifting season . So what do sticky-fingered filchers covet? According to the National Association for Shoplifting Prevention (“because shoplifting steals from all of us”) the most coveted item year round is…choice cuts of “luxury meat.” But the Center for Retail Research told us it was cheese ! [ more › ]
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Hide Your Luxury Meats, Shoplifting Season Has Started!