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Rubble of Explosion Is Combed for Clues
By KRIS MAHER Investigators on Friday combed through the debris of an apparent natural-gas explosion in Allentown, Pa., earlier this week, searching for clues about the cause of the blast that killed five people. Separately, about 24 hours after the Wednesday night explosion in Allentown, a blast involving a 36-inch underground natural-gas transmission line shook [...]
Hurt as Staten Island Ferry Crashes into Dock
An apparent mechanical malfunction caused a Staten Island Ferry, the Andrew J. Barberi, to crash into the dock at Staten Island’s St. George Ferry Terminal. The malfunction occurred about 9:20 a.m. Saturday morning as the ship approached the U-shaped docking slip. The ferry experienced no loss of power, but rather an inability to pull back [...]
Drunk Driver Causes Multicar Accident on Queens Hwy, Victim Dies in Fiery Explosion
A drunken driver is allegedly responsible for an accident involving four vehicles and the death of one man on the Grand Central Parkway in Hillcrest Thursday night. According to the New York Daily News, Michael Carrasquillo, 28, crashed his PT Cruiser into four other cars just before 4 a.m. on the highway in Queens. A [...]
Two Dead, One Critically Injured in 3 Vehicle Garden State Parkway Crash
A Garden State Parkway crash involving three vehicles has left two people dead and one other critically injured. The accident occurred just after 12 p.m. on Sunday, near exit 152 in Bloomfield, when Ralph Lanni, 46, of Clark, lost control of his 2002 Saab. Lanni, traveling northbound, veered across the median and into the southbound [...]
New Jersey DOT Worker Killed While Assisting Motorist
An alleged DUI driver hit and killed a New Jersey Department of Transportation worker as he assisted a stranded motorist in Camden County on Monday. Joseph Kealey, 45, an Emergency Service Patrol Operator, parked on the shoulder of southbound I-76 near the I-295 interchange to assist a minivan with a flat tire when a Dodge [...]
Woman Struck and Killed by a Forklift in Brooklyn
The New York Police Department is investigating how a forklift struck and killed a woman on a Brooklyn street. The accident happened about 7:40 a.m. Tuesday morning as Rosemary Pratt, 46, of Sheepshead Bay, Brooklyn, crossed the intersection of East 14 Street and Avenue M in Midwood. A 40-year-old unidentified construction worker operating the forklift [...]
Brooklyn Fish Market Sued for Male-On-Male Sexual, Racial & National Origin Harassment
The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) filed a lawsuit Monday charging M. Slavin & Sons, a retail and wholesale fish market, with creating a hostile work environment for male employees, including physical and verbal sexual harassment and offensive and degrading comments based on race and national origin. The lawsuit alleges that, “Some of the [...]
Atlantic City Expressway Wrong-Way Accident Kills Two PA Men and One NJ Man
An accident early Wednesday morning on the Atlantic City Expressway has left three men dead. New Jersey State Police said a Volkswagen GTI, driven westbound on the expressway by Michael Pitoscia, 21, of Williamstown, crossed the grass median at mile marker 31.9 about 5 a.m. and traveled the wrong way in the eastbound lanes for [...]
8 People Suffer Carbon Monoxide Poisoning at L.I. Restaurant
Nassau County police evacuated Ayhan’s Shish-Kebab Mediterranean Restaurant at 379 S. Oyster Bay Rd. in Plainview Monday night after reports of multiple customers falling unconscious. Emergency workers transported eight people to area hospitals, Nassau University Medical Center and North Shore University Hospitals in Syosset and Plainview, suffering from carbon monoxide poisoning. Three other people sustained [...]
Amputations of Children’s Fingers Prompts Recall of a Million Strollers
The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) and Maclaren USA, Inc. have announced a voluntary recall of about one million children’s strollers due to reports of fingertip amputations. The stroller’s hinge mechanism poses a fingertip amputation and laceration hazard to the child when the consumer is unfolding/opening the stroller. Maclaren has received 15 reports of [...]
