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NEW YORK – Police arrested and charged a man with murder late Monday night in the brazen daytime shooting deaths of an imam and his friend as they left a New York City mosque over the weekend. Oscar Morel, 35, was charged with two counts of second-degree murder and two counts of criminal possession of a weapon, police said. It wasn't immediately clear if he had an attoey who could comment on the charges. Morel, who police said hit a bicyclist with his SUV just 10 minutes after Saturday's shooting in Queens, was taken into custody late Sunday night, said the New York Police Department's chief of detectives, Robert Boyce. Morel could be seen on the surveillance video fleeing the area o...

The imam of a New York City mosque and his associate were gued down Saturday as they walked home from afteoon prayers. Authorities said the men were shot in the back of the head shortly before 2 p.m. near the Al-Furqan Jame Masjid mosque in the Ozone Park neighborhood of Queens. Police identified the imam as 55-year-old Maulama Akonjee and the associate as Thara Uddin, 64. Related Image Expand / Contract This undated image shows Imam Maulama Akonjee, who was shot and killed outside his mosque in Queens, N.Y., Saturday, Aug. 13, 2016. (Family photo) NYPD Deputy Inspector Henry Sautner said video surveillance shows the victims were approached from behind by a man in a dark polo sh...

A New York City woman found dead in Massachusetts on Sunday had bus to her head and feet, and police are investigating if she was sexually assaulted and then set on fire, FOX 25 reported Tuesday, citing sources. Police said they did not yet know whet...

A New York City woman found dead in Massachusetts on Sunday had bus to her head and feet, and police are investigating if she was sexually assaulted and then set on fire, FOX 25 reported Tuesday, citing sources. Police said they did not yet know whet...

A New York City woman found dead in Massachusetts on Sunday had bus to her head and feet, and police are investigating if she was sexually assaulted and then set on fire, FOX 25 reported Tuesday, citing sources. Police said they did not yet know whet...

Student protesters staged a sit-in outside the chancellor's office last December. (Student Labor Committee at UC Berkeley) The chancellor at University of Califoia Berkeley has an exit plan in case student protesters storm his office. Nicholas Dirks, the school's chancellor, installed a $9,000 escape hatch in a hallway outside his office to "provide egress" if potential student protesters descend on the administratio...

A New York City woman visiting her mother in Massachusetts was killed Sunday while jogging through the woods near her home, law enforcement officials said Monday. Worcester District Attoey Joseph Early Jr. said that 27-year-old Vanessa Marcotte was reported missing after she failed to retu from a Sunday afteoon run in Princeton, Mass. Her body was found Sunday nigh...

Aug. 8, 2016: The body of Vanessa Marcotte, 27, was found in the woods in Princeton, Mass. after she was reported missing when she didn't retu from a jog. (Fox 25) A New York City woman visiting her mother in Massachusetts was killed Sunday while jogging through the woods near her home, law enforcement officials said Monday. Worcester District Attoey Jo...

A Queens, N.Y. joggerwho was found apparently strangled to death in a marshy area Tuesday nightwas sexually assaulted, police said Wednesday. Jogger found slain after evening run in Queens https://t.co/ebaZCkRl2Q pic.twitter.com/OrhyTUB01O — New York Post (@nypost) August 3, 2016 The body of Karina Vetrano — who had recently celebrated her 30th birthday in Saint Tropez, France — was discovered by police, with her ruing tights pulled halfway down, in the weeds around 10:30 p.m. Tuesday, sources said. Her worried father, a retired firefighter, had called 911 to report the St. John’s University graduate missing at about 5 p.m. after she had failed to retu home from her regular run along the B...

New York City Police Commissioner Bill Bratton will step down in September, Mayor Bill de Blasio aounced during a Tuesday news conference. Bratton will take a job in the private sector, but he didn't disclose for what company he would work. Related Image Expand / Contract Chief of Department James O'Neill is reported to be taking over for Commissioner Bill Bratton. (NYPD) Ongoing turmoil between police and some members of the community "110 percent had nothing to do with this," de Blasio said on Tuesday. The resignation aouncement comes a day after 200 anti-police protesters gathered in City Hall Park to demand the NYPD be defunded and Bratton be fired. NYPD Chief of Department Ja...

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Residents of a Staten Island, N.Y. community are mad after an anonymous complaint from one parent compelled the New York City Department of Education to cover up a cross on the side of a building the district is leasing from the local Catholic diocese. EDITORIAL: Mount Loretto cross cover-up just political correctness run amok https://t.co/Q2jp2jutxO — SIAdvance (@siadvance) July 11, 2016 The cross has been on the side of the former orphanage in Pleasant Plains since the 1950s, but workers from the education department showed up recently and covered it with a large maroon sign identifying the building as the “Home of the Panthers.” The district says that rules goveing the separation of chu...

Residents of a Staten Island, N.Y. community are mad after an anonymous complaint from one parent compelled the New York City Department of Education to cover up a cross on the side of a building the district is leasing from the local Catholic diocese. EDITORIAL: Mount Loretto cross cover-up just political correctness run amok https://t.co/Q2jp2jutxO — SIAdvance (@siadvance) July 11, 2016 The cross has been on the side of the former orphanage in Pleasant Plains since the 1950s, but workers from the education department showed up recently and covered it with a large maroon sign identifying the building as the “Home of the Panthers.” The district says that rules goveing the separation of chu...

MINNEAPOLIS – In the wake of protests in Ferguson, Missouri, where authorities were criticized for what some called heavy-handed tactics against demonstrators, many departments took a more restrained approach. Now, after the shooting deaths of five officers at a Dallas protest decrying last week's police killings of two more black men, some experts are suggesting it's possible the pendulum could swing from hugs back to flash-bang grenades and mass arrests. After days of peaceful protests in St. Paul, officers in riot gear met protesters who blocked Interstate 94 late Saturday in the biggest confrontation between police and demonstrators since an officer fatally shot a black man during ...

MINNEAPOLIS – In the wake of protests in Ferguson, Missouri, where authorities were criticized for what some called heavy-handed tactics against demonstrators, many departments took a more restrained approach. Now, after the shooting deaths of five officers at a Dallas protest decrying last week's police killings of two more black men, some experts are suggesting it's possible the pendulum could swing from hugs back to flash-bang grenades and mass arrests. After days of peaceful protests in St. Paul, officers in riot gear met protesters who blocked Interstate 94 late Saturday in the biggest confrontation between police and demonstrators since an officer fatally shot a black man during ...

Actor and "Hamilton" creator Lin-Manuel Miranda, center, takes his final performance curtain call at the Richard Rogers Theatre on Saturday, July 9, 2016, in New York. (AP) NEW YORK – Lin-Manuel Miranda, the creator and star of the Broadway smash "Hamilton," made a subdued final bow Saturday alongside two other departing stars in the show that has become a cultural phenomenon. The performance Saturday at the Richard Rodgers Theatre was also the last for Leslie Odom Jr., who won a Tony Award as Aaron Burr, and Phillipa Soo, a Tony nominee who portrayed Eliza Schuyler. The three — plus an ensemble member — took their bows together but none said anything. Miranda made a solo bow, with his h...

L&B Spumoni Gardens in Brooklyn, N.Y. (Google Street View) It sounds like an episode from the Sopranos. The owner of a famed Brooklyn pizza joint once at the center of a mob war was gued down in front of his home Thursday nightin a targeted hit, the New York Post reports. Louis Barbati, 61, an owner of L&B Spumoni Gardens in Bensonhurst was steps from his front door when he was gued down by a man in his 30s, wearing a hoodie, the Post reported. Barbati’s Italian immigrant grandfather founded L&B in 1939. The pizzeria is best known for its Sicilian pizza and ices and regularly appears "best of New York" lists. L&B was once at the center of a Mafia extortion plot over a sto...

Vote Leave supporters walk along a street in central London, Friday, June 24, 2016. People (I will politely call them that, when referring to celebrities and media on Twitter) are acting like the Brexit vote is the end of humanity. It’s an online spectacle, this manic hissy fit orchestrated by A, B and C listers who seemingly have ignored the scandalous depravity unfolding in Venezuela, the horrors of the Taliban in Afghanistan, the murderous homophobia of ISIS and assorted other Islamist terror outfits, the barrel bombing of Syrians (which helped foster the Brexit vote). Yes, the Chicken Littles’ pleading for a re-vote are the same ones who CAUSED the vote, through selective outrage, sh...

Vote Leave supporters walk along a street in central London, Friday, June 24, 2016. People (I will politely call them that, when referring to celebrities and media on Twitter) are acting like the Brexit vote is the end of humanity. It’s an online spectacle, this manic hissy fit orchestrated by A, B and C listers who seemingly have ignored the scandalous depravity unfolding in Venezuela, the horrors of the Taliban in Afghanistan, the murderous homophobia of ISIS and assorted other Islamist terror outfits, the barrel bombing of Syrians (which helped foster the Brexit vote). Yes, the Chicken Littles’ pleading for a re-vote are the same ones who CAUSED the vote, through selective outrage, sh...

Dec. 7, 2011: House Budget Committee Chairman Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wis., second from right, accompanied by fellow committee members, gestures during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP) If House Speaker Paul Ryan was British, he might have been celebrating on June 23. The Republican leader implied Monday that he would have supported the campaign to leave the European Union because their argument for leaving embodied American values. “I can’t say I’m surprised because people want self-govement, they want sovereignty, they want self-determination, and I can’t say that I would feel differently if I were a citizen of Great Britain when you have people from other countries regu...