"Suspect in New York torching charged with murder" December 20, 2011|By Verena Dobnik
NEW YORK - A man accused of spraying gasoline on a 73-year-old woman and setting her ablaze in an elevator was charged yesterday with murder and arson, appearing in court with the left side of his face blistered and burned, his upper lip swollen....
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"Police say man admits setting woman on fire in elevator" December 19, 2011|New York Times
NEW YORK - Less than 12 hours after the horrific death of a woman who was burned alive in the elevator of her apartment building, a man who the police said was “reeking of gasoline’’ surrendered and implicated himself in the crime, the police said yesterday....
The attack was captured in chilling surveillance video. Two cameras show a man dressed as an exterminator, wearing white gloves, with a protective mask perched atop his head and carrying a container on his back.
The man attacks the woman, Deloris Gillespie, 73, as she tries to leave the elevator on the fifth floor, laden with groceries. As the doors open, the man first sprays her in the face and then douses her methodically from head to toe with what a city official said was an accelerant. She turns and cowers.
After cornering her in the elevator, the man struggles to ignite a barbecue lighter, which he uses to set Gillespie on fire. He retreats momentarily into the hall and then returns with a Molotov cocktail - a bottle filled with accelerant with a rag stuffed in its neck - and hurls it at her. Suddenly, the silent video goes white.
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"Sainthood for 2 from Mohawk Valley" January 03, 2012
FONDA, N.Y. — Starting next year, New York’s Mohawk Valley can boast of being the home of two of the Roman Catholic Church’s newest saints....
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"Thousands honor officer shot responding to home invasion"
BABYLON, N.Y. - Thousands of police officers from New York and New Jersey gathered at a small Long Island church yesterday to honor a New York Police Department patrolman shot to death during a botched robbery in Brooklyn....
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"Vendor who spied NYC bomb threat to run for Congress" Associated Press, February 08, 2012
WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. - A Times Square street vendor who alerted police to an attempted car bombing in 2010 said yesterday that he is running for Congress. Duane Jackson said his brush with terrorism and celebrity taught him that it made sense to get involved.
Related: Times Square
Just another Fascist Bureau of Instigation plot to set-up patsy.
“It was kind of an epiphany for me,’’ he said. “I had a call from President Obama. I had people from all over the world come and thank me for, you know, seeing something and saying something. I can tell people, especially young people and people in the minority communities, it’s OK to get involved in the running of this country.’’
As long as you toe the corporate and Zionist line, sig heil.
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You can also make some money:
"Operative guilty of cheating mayor out of $750,000" December 20, 2011|By
NEW YORK - A political operative convicted of bamboozling Mayor Michael Bloomberg out of hundreds of thousands of dollars was sentenced to prison yesterday in a case that brought the billionaire politician to the witness stand and gave the public a behind-the-scenes look at his campaign and City Hall....
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"Homeless student out of contest" Associated Press, January 26, 2012
BRENTWOOD, N.Y. - A high school student who attracted national attention after it was reported that she was living in a homeless shelter is not among the 40 finalists in the prestigious Intel Science contest....
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"Federal aid sought to fight drugged driving" associated Press, January 30, 2012
ALBANY, N.Y. - The federal government should help police departments nationwide obtain the tools and training needed to attack a rising scourge of driving under the influence of drugs, two US senators said yesterday.
Senators Charles Schumer of New York and Mark Pryor of Arkansas proposed that federal aid in a pending transportation funding bill be used for research and to train police. They said police have no equipment and few have training in identifying drugged drivers, who don’t show the same outward signs of intoxication as drunken drivers do, such as slurred speech.
Schumer said police forces need technology similar to alcohol breath tests to identify drug-impaired drivers on-the-spot.
Not that I want whacked-out drivers on the road, but WHEN DOES the TYRANNY END?
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Also see:
N.Y. may change degree rules for RNs
NYC killer gets 200 years for 2011 rampage
I've hit bottom.
