Author: Brooklyn Ink Staff (Brooklyn Ink Staff)

Jose Rodriguez, a student at St Edmund Prep School, died last Saturday after trying out for the junior varsity basketball school team. Witnesses say Rodriguez, 15, fell unconscious while in a water break. Efforts to revive him were futile and he later died after being transferred to New York Community Hospital of Brooklyn. School principal...

David Wojnarowicz’s controversial exhibition, “A Fire in My Belly,” is coming to the Brooklyn Museum on Nov. 18, reports The Wall Street Journal. A video from the exhibition, which includes a film depicting ants crawling on a crucifix, was pulled from the National Portrait Gallery in Washington D.C. last year after the work provoked public...

Muslim students are attending seminars and learning how to defend themselves after an NYPD officer infiltrated their group at Brooklyn College, The Huffington Post reports.  Over the summer an AP investigation revealed that the NYPD was behind a massive Muslim surveillance program, in which the daily lives of many Brooklyn residents were documented.      

Book publisher Little, Brown and Company, has accused Brooklyn author Quentin Rowan of plagiarism, according to the New York Daily News. The company asked bookstores to return copies of Rowan’s book and promise refunds. Pulling the book has only helped sales on Amazon.com, The Wall Street Journal reports. The book’s ranking jumped from 43,996 yesterday afternoon to...

One of the five injured workers in yesterday’s building collapse has died. Three of the other workers are in stable condition at Lutheran Medical Center and a fourth declined treatment. A preliminary view of the 5-story apartment’s damage revealed that fresh concrete was improperly poured from the top to the bottom. At a briefing Tuesday evening, Robert LiMandri, commissioner...

Dr. Conrad Murray, who was Michael Jackson’s personal physician, was found guilty Monday afternoon of involuntary manslaughter. Jackson died on June 25, 2009 from “acute propofol intoxication,” according to the Los Angeles County coroner (via CNN). The jury deliberated for less than nine hours, according to Access Hollywood. Murray faces up to four years in prison....

An 87-year-old man was hit and killed by an NYPD vehicle last Friday, Nov. 5 on Eastern Parkway between Dean Street and Bergen Street, according to the New York Daily News. Theauther Love, an assistant minister at the New Frontier Baptists Church, was struck by a cop car while he was out on a morning...

A museum at the Brooklyn Navy Yard will be opening Veterans Day, this Friday, according to the New York Daily News. This marks the first time since 1801 that the Navy Yard will be open to the public. Chunks of steel from the Arizona, which was built at the Navy Yard and later destroyed at...

Two Brooklyn teens were killed in a car crash on I-84 early Monday morning as they headed to a Connecticut yeshiva, according to the Connecticut News Times. Eli Shonbron, 16, and Dani King, 15, died after their van in crashed and tumbled down an embankment at 12:30 a.m. There were nine other people in the...

Josh Rubin, owner of Whisk Bakery Cafe in Ditmas Park, has been missing since last Tuesday. He was last seen by his roommate Justin DeCarlo in the evening of Mon., Oct. 31. The next morning, Rubin didn’t pick up bagels for the cafe, Brooklyn Paper reports. Check out the “Find Josh Rubin” Facebook page. See below for...