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Former Staten Island ‘hero’ cop gets 35 years for molesting adopted boys
William Fox, who won “Father of the Year” after adopting a 17-year-old runaway he talked out of suicide, has been sentenced for sexually abusing three other adopted boys.
Skeleton from house flood – murder
Bones that emerged in a Stapleton basement flood turn out to be a man who was reported missing in January 2000. Signs are that he’d been stabbed in the torso. Back when he vanished, that address had been known for drugs.
Did cop make up charge of resisting arrest?
Federal officials say NYPD Officer Michael Daragjati didn’t like when a black man got a little sassy during a stop-and-frisk. So he allegedly lied that the man fought during arrest. Later, he bragged in a tapped phone call, ‘Fried another n****r.’
Revitalizing Stapleton
The Rail project will turn around the whole neighborhood, developer says.
Floods dredge up bones in a basement
Medical examiners are determining whether the bones are human.
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