Author: Christopher Alessi (Christopher Alessi)

Yaffi Spodek reports from court: After the summations, the defendant’s lawyer, Michael Sheinberg,requested a motion for a mistrial on the grounds that the opposing counsel made improper comments about the murder, noting that close to a dozen of his objections had been sustained. “We’re past the point where the court could repair an impaired judgment...

In March, Shamduh Wilson, 23, was convicted of first-degree manslaughter by a Brooklyn jury and sentenced to 38 years in prison. A month earlier, Wilson was reportedly trying to shoot a man who allegedly attacked his girlfriend, but instead killed an innocent bystander who was standing in a bodega. But…the case is not over! “Now...

A plus-size Brooklyn model, Ashley Graham, was featured in a controversial Lane Bryant ad that aired on Fox last night. Prior to the airing it had been banned by both Fox and ABC for allegedly being too sexual. Graham and Lane Bryant had accused the networks of being uncomfortable with a plus-size model wearing lingerie. [Examiner.com]...

A Brooklyn mom, Chila Lati, will go on trial today for allegedly running over a traffic agent’s foot in Sheepshead Bay after the agent attempted to ticket her. However, Lati claims that she is not guilty and that it was not her car that ran over the traffic agent’s foot. She claims that the crime...

The New York Daily News reported that a Brooklyn nurse and mother of three was stabbed to death in the basement of her home Wednesday night in front of her 12-year-old son and a nephew – allegedly by her husband, police and a relative said. Cops found the body of Martiza Jolliffe, 53, at 7:20 p.m., triggering a...

The New York Post reported that pedestrians crossing the city’s most dangerous intersections will be getting a hand soon from countdown clocks. Thousands of the timing devices are going to go up across the five boroughs after an exhaustive 17-month experiment showed that they’re safety boosters — at least for some of the widest streets with...

Domenick Occhiogrosso of Brooklyn had a heart attack yesterday morning while driving a subway train. Shortly after pulling the “G” train out of a Queens terminal, Occhiogrosso collapsed. His fall activated a special switch, known as the “Dead Man’s Switch,” which immediately stopped the train as if an emergency brake was pulled. After the subway...

NY State Senator Kevin Parker, a Brooklyn Democrat, condemned  his fellow senators as “white supremacists” yesterday. “There’s only one kind of racism that’s functional in the world, and that’s white supremacy,” Parker said during a radio interview yesterday morning. He added, “And that’s what John DeFrancisco and a lot of the Republicans are,” referring to...