Bronx Woman Charged with Manslaughter for Allegedly Suffocating Newborn Twin Daughter

By SÍLE MOLONEY

Bronx District Attorney Darcel D. Clark announced on Tuesday, Feb. 13, that a Bronx woman has been charged with second-degree manslaughter and criminally negligent homicide in the death by asphyxiation of her newborn twin daughter in September 2023, as reported. The woman later gave birth to a twin baby boy.

Norwood: One Sought in Norwood Gang Robbery, Police Step Up Night Patrols Around Oval

By SÍLE MOLONEY

The NYPD is asking for the public’s help identifying the people seen in the attached image who they say are sought in connection to a robbery that occurred in Norwood.

Bedford Park: Gunman Sought Following Marion Ave Non-Fatal Shooting

By DAVID GREENE

NYPD detectives are looking for the gunman who shot a man in the hand on Marion Avenue in Bedford Park.

UPDATE Kingsbridge Road Shooting Victim “Never had a Father or Mother and He Tried to Survive”

By DAVID GREENE

As a group of young men continued a vigil for a third day outside FM Candy and Grocery Corp, located at 131 West Kingsbridge Road in Fordham Manor, residents of NYCHA’s Bailey Houses, located on Heath Avenue also in Fordham Manor, remembered resident, Hasan Richburg, 26, who, as reported, was shot multiple times outside 131 West Kingsbridge Road on Thursday, Feb. 8 and later died of his injuries.

Yonkers Police Department Arrests, Charges Mother in Abandoned Newborn Investigation

By SÍLE MOLONEY

The Yonkers Police Department (YPD) arrested a suspect in the abandonment of a newborn baby that occurred earlier this week, they said.

UPDATE Bedford Park: 14-Year-Old Girl Reported Missing Now Safe

By SÍLE MOLONEY

The NYPD said a 14-year-old girl reporting missing person from Bedford Park has been located.

UPDATE Bedford Park: Man Arrested, Woman Fatally Shot, One Teen, One Child Stable in Early Morning Tragedy

By SÍLE MOLONEY

Four days before Valentine’s Day, ironically, tragedy has struck the Bedford Park community by Valentine’s Avenue and East 203rd Street once more, as a woman, a teen, and a young child were seemingly gunned down in their home in the early hours of Saturday morning. The woman is dead and the two other victims are stable, police said.

North Central Bronx Hospital Unveils New Employee Wellness Room

By ARIEL PACHECO

NYC Health + Hospitals/North Central Bronx (NCB) held a ribbon-cutting ceremony on Jan. 24 as the public hospital unveiled a brand-new, employee wellness room. Jeremy Segall, assistant vice president of human experience at NYC Health + Hospitals said of the occasion, “The opening of the workforce wellness room is a pivotal moment for permanence of well-being across our system, to have a workforce wellness room where people can come to take time to connect with their own concrete needs.”

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Bronx Woman Charged with Manslaughter for Allegedly Suffocating Newborn Twin Daughter

Norwood: One Sought in Norwood Gang Robbery, Police Step Up Night Patrols Around Oval

Bedford Park: Gunman Sought Following Marion Ave Non-Fatal Shooting

UPDATE Kingsbridge Road Shooting Victim “Never had a Father or Mother and He Tried to Survive”

Yonkers Police Department Arrests, Charges Mother in Abandoned Newborn Investigation

UPDATE Bedford Park: 14-Year-Old Girl Reported Missing Now Safe

UPDATE Bedford Park: Man Arrested, Woman Fatally Shot, One Teen, One Child Stable in Early Morning Tragedy

North Central Bronx Hospital Unveils New Employee Wellness Room

Out & About: Black History Month, The History of Latin Music and Latin Jazz & More!