Prostitution-related arrests along Roosevelt Avenue in Queens, New York, have dropped sharply this year, while local residents, community leaders and law-enforcement sources continue to raise concerns about illegal prostitution and possible sex trafficking in the area. According to police records cited in recent reporting, the NYPD recorded 193 prostitution-related arrests along Roosevelt Avenue through September 13, 2026. […]

A terrifying incident at a New York City subway station on New Year’s Eve 2024 left a 45-year-old man seriously injured after prosecutors said he was pushed onto the tracks as an approaching train entered the station. The defendant, identified by authorities as 23-year-old Kamel Hawkins of Brooklyn, was later arrested and charged in connection with the incident.

A bizarre bank robbery case in Ohio took an unexpected turn when police said the suspect appeared to eat a piece of paper that may have been the note used during the robbery. The incident happened in November 2009 in Streetsboro, Ohio, near Cleveland. The suspect, identified by police as 35-year-old John H. Ford of Cleveland, had been arrested

Detroit Metropolitan Airport has recorded a first for the United States after U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) agriculture specialists discovered potentially destructive giant scale insects hidden on fresh pine bark brought into the country by a traveler from Cameroon. The insects were discovered during a routine luggage inspection earlier this year. The traveler was

A 27-year-old man from Dearborn, Michigan, was found fatally shot inside a clothing store on Detroit’s Woodward Avenue on September 9, 2026. The man was identified as Ali Wissam Aoun, who was found inside Goodfellas Wear, a clothing store near Woodward Avenue and Chicago Boulevard.  Update: Initial reports described the incident as a homicide investigation. However, on September