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NEW YORK (AP) — An Upper Manhattan building superintendent, a veterinary worker and two other men have been charged with running a dogfighting ring after authorities said an identity theft investigation yielded an animal-abuse case. Investigators seized 29 pit bulls and other dogs this fall from cages, a closet and elsewhere in the men’s homes…

More than a hundred Queens parents crammed a meeting room on Thursday night to voice their concerns about a forthcoming plan to desegregate middle schools in District 28, a sprawling area that encompasses parts of Kew Gardens, Forest Hills, Rego Park and Jamaica.The room reached maximum capacity with dozens of parents barred by…

NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) — A fatal house fire in Queens is now being investigated as a triple homicide, police said Saturday. The fire happened just after 11:50 p.m. on Nov. 21 at a home on 110th Road in St. Albans. After firefighters extinguished the flames, they found three men dead inside the house. Three men were killed when flames tore through…

Immersive Instagram experiences are the funhouse equivalent of getting a tattoo written in Japanese kanji characters that are meant to represent something meaningful, but in reality those characters translate to, oh I don't know, "small barbecue grill." What promised to outwardly display your depth becomes a mark of the meaningless.…

An NYPD officer got a nasty surprise when he bit into a cheesesteak sandwich and ended up with a razor blade in his mouth this week.A police spokesperson said the incident happened on Thursday around 4:30 p.m. when the officer, whose name has not been released, picked up a sandwich at Bon Appetit sandwich shop in Rockaway Park. When…