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In a trial that will most likely sully the good name of bloggers everywhere, three judges testified against right-wing blogger Harold "Hal" C. Turner for threatening to kill them for upholding a handgun ban in Chicago. Turner wrote in June that Judges Richard A. Posner, William J. Bauer and Frank H. Easterbrook "deserve to be killed" and “If they are allowed to get away with this by surviving, other judges will act the same way." The first trial last December ended with a deadlocked jury, claiming they didn't have enough evidence against Turner. However, the judges didn't testify at that trial. more ›

Members of Williamsburg's Shomrim patrol busted a 12-year-old thief who robs Hasidic women with a cleverly disguised cap gun. "Give me your money!" demanded Shy-kym Samuels at 9:45 a.m. yesterday morning, pointing the toy weapon at his 34-year-old victim. The woman, who had a two-year-old in a stroller, was fooled and handed over her purse. Samuels ran. more ›

In Serbia, prosecutors have finally caught up with and charged the former Binghamton basketball player accused of beating a fellow student into a coma. In 2008 Miladin Kovacevic jumped bail and fled for his home country after getting into a fight with Brian Steinhauer at an upstate bar. The towering 23-year-old is accused of kicking the student, causing skull fractures and severe brain damage. more ›

The Brownstone Brooklyn Bugaboo has made it all the way to CNN. Today the news source touches down on the touchy subject of Brooklyn parents bringing babies to bars. Nothing that hasn't been covered here before, though they sum up the debate through the words of a 26-year-old single woman and a stay-at-home dad, both from the borough. more ›

In Borough Park, Brooklyn an 18-year-old is running for City Council on the platform of saving student metrocards and funding for the FDNY, but already an older opponent is trying to sully his name. David Greenfield, who's already backed by Mayor Bloomberg, is suing Abraham Tischler, claiming that the Touro College sophomore faked signatures on his petitions. "We don't know anything about the guy," Greenfield's spokesman told the Daily News, adding that since Tischler isn't accepting city campaign financing, "He could drop half a million dollars of family money in the campaign tomorrow." more ›

Kings County District Attorney Charles Hynes has concluded his investigation into possible criminality on the part of three ACORN employees caught on video giving advice to a couple posing as a prostitute and companion. (Though the right-wing gadflies who made the hidden camera video edited it to suggest that James O'Keefe was posing as the woman's pimp, the couple actually told ACORN employees he was trying to protect her from the pimp [PDF].) Yesterday Hynes cleared ACORN of any criminality, while perpetuating the misconception that O'Keefe had posed as a pimp and worn a cliche pimp costume during the meeting (he did not).: more ›

Swearing that a drink of raw milk beats a trip to the doctor, a Brooklyn woman has gotten in with an underground network that traffics the unhomogenized, unpasteurized product. According to the Brooklyn Paper, Hannah Springer and her fellow milk smugglers meet at secret "drop-off" points around the city, to collect bottles driven down from farms in Pennsylvania. Like many converts, Springer had her first taste after reading The Omnivore's Dilemma, and now she's addicted. “I no longer have to take thyroid meds, which every doctor said I would be on for the rest of my life,” said the mom, who feeds two glasses of the stuff to her 18-month old son daily. But if its curative properties are what she says, why does the FDA call it "inherently dangerous"? more ›

Mommy rage lives on! A commenter on Pardon Me For Asking tells the tale of her dog park being overrun with children and their protective parents on Friday. The dog owner says, "We brought our 5-month-old puppy to Hillside Dog Run in Brooklyn Heights, which was covered in snow. As usual dozens of parents show up with dozens of kids to sled down the hill inside the dog run. My very well behaved, if not excitable, puppy, got enthused by the action and at one point, playfully nipped at a kids arm. To which the obnoxious parent tells me that my dog should be trained to not bite children." [via CityRoom] more ›

In the poor economy many politicians have scaled back their inaugural celebrations, but not Brooklyn borough president Marty Markowitz, who drummed up $122,000 to turn his State of the Borough Address into a carnival featuring song and dance acts, beer, food and a "multimedia production." "Marty's famous for finding every opportunity to host big events on behalf of Brooklyn and not incidentally on behalf of Marty," said David Birdsell, a dean at Baruch College. "The question is whether it's politically useful." more ›

Remember the van that drove around your college town at night, picking up alcohol-warmed students and their bottles of Old English, ostensibly protecting women from threats in the bushes? According to a Times Style piece, New York has its own neon version of the free drunk bus except instead of dropping you off at your outdoor drinking destination (the cemetery was always a good bet), it runs on a circuit from Williamsburg to a West Village bar called the Rusty Knot, where riders—lubricated by the free Buds on board—are deposited to empty their wallets. more ›

More than a month after 7-year-old Patrick Alford disappeared from a Brooklyn foster home, police are running out of leads to follow. Originally they suspected the birth mom, but she’s been cleared since passing a lie detector test. The foster parents were a dead end too, as were canvases of the area and thousands of interviews. Even a $12,000 has failed to turn up the lost boy, leaving investigators and relatives to fear the worst. "The boy's not here - he's not here!" yelled Alford’s aunt, who’s been visited by detectives nine times. "I wish he was." more ›

Certain Brooklyn bagelheads have been heading to Mile End Deli in Boerum Hill today to snatch up some specially-delivered bagels from Montreal. The bagels, from St-Viateur bagel bakery, are $2.50 a pop (or a dozen for $22) and traveled overnight to get here. The folks at Brokelyn think this is très absurde, saying, "There are so many things wrong with this scenario that the mind reels trying to count them." They suggest hitting up the Bagel Hole for an 80 cent doughy delight. more ›

Here it is, your Snowicane timelapse, taken in Brooklyn. Spoiler alert: the camera gets snowed in! more ›

The woman whose Acura Legend was involved in a Brooklyn hit-and-run that injured two women—one seriously—spoke at a press conference yesterday, emphatically stating that she was not the driver. Cindy Jasmin said, "I am the owner of the vehicle involved in the accident. My sister was the driver of the car involved in the accident." more ›

Under what circumstances should a cabbie stop their meter? This past Wednesday night a 29-year-old Park Slope man threw up in the back of a cab while traveling down 4th Avenue in Brooklyn. He told the cabbie he'd clean up his sickly mess, at which point the driver pulled the car over on 14th Street so his passenger could presumably throw up some more, outside of the vehicle. more ›

Police may need to run DNA tests on blood found inside an Acura Legend that struck two pedestrians in Brooklyn, injuring both, at Flatbush and Prospect Place. The car's owner Cindy Jasmin was suspected as the hit-and-run driver involved in the incident, but Jasmin claims her sister was actually driving the car. more ›

The woman who owns the car that struck two young women in a Prospect Heights hit-and-run—leaving one with a broken collarbone and the other with severe brain injuries—told police that her sister was the driver. Cindy Jasmin was questioned by police yesterday and WCBS 2 reports, "Jasmin told detectives she wasn't behind the wheel, her sister was, and that this sister is so distraught that she checked herself into a psych ward at this hospital in White Plains." more ›

Are there fight clubs for 5 year olds now? A Brooklyn kindergarten student, Jazmin Lovings, was allegedly tormented by bullies, who even went so far as to cut her hair off! The Daily News reports that the incidents, happening at P.S. 161 in Crown Heights, began last October—and the tot is traumatized by them. more ›

Egads, behold these infernal hip-sters clogging Bedford Avenue with their fixed-gear "safety bicycles." And good heavens, there is a slatternly dressed female cyclist pedaling among them, a sight that's certain to scandalize the local Hasidim (someday)! This photograph—probably taken during one of their incessant political demonstrations demanding fanciful traffic regulations—clearly shows these ped-HELL-ers' wanton disregard for pedestrians and locomotives alike. Reached for comment, one Wiley Ignatius Norvel, who represents a criminal anarchist group in favor of bicycle proliferation, stridently asked, "How many bicyclists must be injured after slipping in manure before the Brooklyn carriage industry equips their horses with absorbent diapers?" more ›

The latest Scouting NY post, where he comes upon a privately owned mansion in Vinegar Hill that used to be part of the Brooklyn Navy Yard, is simply drool-worthy and envy-inducing. The home has received press here and there throughout the years, but as the Scout points out, "the fact that I was unaware of it means there’s gotta be one or two readers out there who will be as taken aback by it as I was." more ›

Decontamination efforts are well underway for a toxic Gowanus site, slated to house Brooklyn's first Whole Foods. But though the hole should be contaminant-free by April, the upscale grocery purveyor won't confirm its move to the neighborhood. “Everything I know is that Whole Foods is committed to building on that site,” said John Bogdanski, an environmental consultant for the store. “Still, there is always the option to sell the property.” more ›

Police are looking for the owner of an Acura Legend and suspect she may have struck two women in a Prospect Heights hit-and-run early Sunday morning . Alma Guererro, 23, was left with a broken collarbone while Erinn Phelan (pictured), 22, is "clinging to life" with severe injuries. more ›

Fake cops in Ft. Greene pulled their victim over, cuffed him, then mugged him on Feb. 21. The victim was driving Sunday morning around 4 a.m. when he noticed a gray minivan hot on his tail, reports the Brooklyn Paper. While he was stopped at the corner of Fulton Street and Carlton Avenue, two men hopped from the car bearing fake badges, then began berating him for not stopping earlier. They cuffed the duped man and took him back to their vehicle, then spun him around neighborhood. It wasn't until they released him that the victim realized he'd been taken for a ride: the unofficial officers had stolen all of his money. more ›

Rather than building new affordable homes in the city, Bloomberg now wants to spruce up those that already exist. His revamped plan will cost $8.5 billion and seeks to preserve 165,000 units by 2014. One Bed-Stuy housing development would have been a good candidate for the program, until it called a press conference to address its long list of complaints and the repairs were miraculously completed. “I’ve never seen anything like this in my life,” said Cassandra Harrell, the president of the Bed-Stuy Rehabs’ resident association, who has lived in the project for 27 years. “They put up Sheetrock, they painted the walls, they knew the press was coming.” more ›

A 22-year-old Bloomberg administration employee is brain dead after yesterday morning's hit-and-run on Flatbush Avenue and Prospect Place in Brooklyn, while her 23-year-old friend was left with a broken collarbone. The police are looking for the driver of a green 1993 Acura Legend that was abandoned blocks away from the scene. more ›

Yesterday Joe Biden fêted his wife with a romantic lunch at Brooklyn’s River Café. "It was a belated Valentine's," said owner Michael (Buzzy) O'Keeffe. A tourist from Oklahoma chatted Jill Biden up in the lady’s room, and the two went back to her table to meet the vice-president, reports the Daily News. "I shook his hand and said, 'Don't worry. Mine are clean.' He said, 'Mine are clean, too,'" she recounted. "They were very friendly, very lovely." As the Bidens dined on pear salad, warm goat cheese, potato terrine, and sirloin steak (cooked medium well) their beefy secret service escorts ordered a pie from Grimaldi’s. more ›

Around 4:30 a.m. this morning, two pedestrians were struck by a hit-and-run driver at Flatbush Avenue and Prospect Place in Brooklyn. According to WCBS 2, the victims were two women in their 20s, "When rescuers arrived at the scene, one woman was unconscious, the other was lucid." more ›

On Friday night gunmen were firing all over the city. Police reported three fatal shootings over the course of just five hours, the first stemming from an argument at a Crown Heights party. Ahmed Hoyt, a 31-year-old from Queens, was out in Brooklyn when a fight inside the Troy Avenue apartment was taken to the sidewalk. He was shot in the head at 10:26 p.m, reports the Post. Back in Queens 22-year-old Kalif Canady was also shot in the head, but he was close to home, police say. At 1:17 a.m. he was at his car near the Astoria Houses, when he met his killer and his maker. The last shooting of the night was Kevin Grant, also 22. He was shot and killed during a 3:30 a.m. bar fight on White Plains Road in the Bronx. more ›

Remember when you fell on that patch of ice on North 12th and Bedford? Your embarrassment was caught on tape and will now live forever on the internet. One Williamsburg voyeur says he "noticed 4 out of every 5 people that walked by ate it on the ice there." Instead of warning the unfortunate pedestrians or throwing some salt down, he hit record and later uploaded the montage to YouTube: more ›

Relatives say a Bensonhurst baby who fractured her skull when her mother threw her from the window of a flaming building is getting better and expected to survive. Three-month old Maria Maura Chan has had a series of operations and will undergo therapy for her sight and hearing, reports the AP. Her 2-year-old big brother is unharmed, since he was caught by a neighbor, however the mother Maria Chan was one of five Guatemalan immigrants killed in the fire. Demon-hearing, vodka-loving building resident Daniel Ignacio is accused of starting the blaze intentionally with lighter fluid and a roll of toilet paper, though he claims it was an accident. more ›