Police shut down Justin Bieber appearance at NY mall after losing control of tween crowd

Tween Justin Bieber fans lose control at NY mall

NY prosecutors suspect adoption Ponzi scheme that promised babies but didn’t deliver

GARDEN CITY, N.Y. — New York prosecutors are investigating a possible “adoption Ponzi scheme” in which clients were defrauded out of fees for babies who didn’t exist.

Prosecutor decides against charging suburban NYC university student who made up gang rape tale

GARDEN CITY, N.Y. — A suburban New York City prosecutor has decided not to file criminal charges against a university student who falsely claimed she was gang-raped in a dormitory bathroom.

Experts: Husband in NY wrong-way crash trying to repair wife’s reputation before legal battles

GARDEN CITY, N.Y. —Attorneys say there’s not much chance the husband of a woman who drove the wrong way on a New York highway and killed herself and seven others will face criminal charges.

NY police say no signs of trouble when driver stopped at McDonald’s before wrong-way crash

GARDEN CITY, N.Y. — Police investigating a head-on highway crash that killed a suburban mother and seven other people said Friday she was fine at a fast-food restaurant an hour after starting her drive, narrowing the timeline for when she may have begun a drinking binge.

Husband says wife wasn’t alcoholic, blames ’something medical’ for NY wrong-way crash

GARDEN CITY, N.Y. — Despite the blood tests, broken vodka bottle and a minivan careering the wrong way down a highway to a fiery end, Daniel Schuler is positive his wife wasn’t a drunk.

Husband: NY mother in wrong-way crash that killed 8 wasn’t a drinker

GARDEN CITY, N.Y. — The husband of a woman who caused a New York highway crash that killed eight people says she wasn’t a drinker.

Lawyer: NY mom in wrong-way crash rarely drank and probably had a stroke

GARDEN CITY, N.Y. — An attorney says the woman who drove drunk and caused a New York highway crash that killed eight people rarely drank.

Lawyer: NY mon in wrong-way crash ‘had a stroke of some sort’; had diabetes

GARDEN CITY, N.Y. — An attorney says the woman who drove drunk and caused a New York highway crash that killed eight people was diabetic and may have suffered a stroke.

Autopsy: New York mom who caused wrong-way crash that killed 8 was drunk, high on marijuana

GARDEN CITY, N.Y. — A mother drank vodka and smoked marijuana while taking a vanload of children home from a weekend camping trip that ended in disaster when she went the wrong way on a highway and crashed into an SUV, killing eight people, police said Tuesday.

NY’s Sen. Schumer prods MTA on wireless Internet access on rails

GARDEN CITY, N.Y. — Sen. Charles Schumer contends the commuter railroads serving New York City have been slow to implement wireless Internet service.

NY’s attorney general targets firms charging fees for foreclosure rescues

GARDEN CITY, N.Y. — New York’s attorney general says consumers do not have to pay upfront fees to companies that promise help in staving off home foreclosures.

NY store owner gives $40, loaf of bread to contrite would-be thief after he begs forgiveness

GARDEN CITY, N.Y. — A rifle-toting convenience store owner said he decided to show mercy on a would-be robber after seeing the man collapse into tears and claim he was only committing the crime to support his starving family.

50 Cent claims says he’s been cleared in house fire probe, but cops say no

GARDEN CITY, N.Y. — Rapper 50 Cent says he’s been told he is not a suspect in a 2008 fire that destroyed his New York mansion.

DA: NY couple hid bag of guns, ammo belonging to gang-member son in woman’s day care center

GARDEN CITY, N.Y. — The operator of a Long Island day care center and her husband are accused of stashing an arsenal in the basement of the facility.

Wake held at Long Island funeral home for victims in NY family’s murder-suicide

GARDEN CITY, N.Y. — Mourners shared tearful hugs outside a Long Island funeral home Monday where flowers blanketed the closed caskets of a mother and her two daughters brutally slain last week by the family patriarch, a shocking crime that has friends and relatives grasping for an explanation.