Dongan Hills

Did bullies drive another teen to suicide?

Someday, you’ll leave school, and the torturers in your youth will fade back into a distant buzz. All the stupid things they’ve said to you – none of it will matter.

Has a Todt Hill, high-class burglar actually been caught this time?

Todt Hill and other expensive neighborhoods in Staten Island have been plagued for four years by professional burglars who really seem to know what they’re doing.

Couple from Dongan Hills is sentenced for two pit bull attacks

First the animal bit a woman’s leg to the bone after she’d been arguing with one of the suspects. Then the dog clamped onto a woman’s crotch while he was out for a walk.

Police investigate two growing patterns of high-end burglaries

It’s reminiscent of the old “Ninja” break-ins: They’ve targeted the expensive neighborhoods, they do a clean, professional job, and it’s probably more than one gang doing it.

73-year-old laundry owner charged with fondling teenage worker

An elderly laundromat owner is accused of reaching under a 16-year-old female employee’s shirt, right there in the laundromat – in the middle of a Sunday morning.

Two men, four commercial burglaries, in about two weeks in August

Four commercial burglaries apparently trace back to the same two men, police said. Police have released photos of suspects from security cameras at one of the burglaries.

Traffic sucks. Really.

A casual study of traffic revealed that no one follows the rules. Is this really a surprise?

Robbery in Dongan Hills was done really badly

Actually, it wasn’t quite a robbery, since they didn’t get anything.

Contributions stolen that were for little kid with cancer

Thieves took this cancer victim for, what, $11? $12? Some people need to hit bottom, but just how far down is that?

Man sought for Dongan Hills hit and run incident… with wild turkeys

A witness grabbed the driver’s license plate number, so it shouldn’t be long before he or she is taken in.