Bushwick

Eight people have been indicted and charged with sex trafficking girls from junior high schools. The arrests of Bloods gang members includes charges that the girls, as young as 15, were beaten and starved if they did not earn $500 a day selling their...

DeVante Harris and Alfonso Francois Gonzales are feeling like Steven Spielberg today. The Brooklyn high school students were two of dozens of teenagers who got to showcase their own movies at Brooklyn College today. It's all part of the "Brooklyn...

As the sun came up Friday morning, the FDNY called for a five-alarm status -- 300 firefighters in 200 vehicles -- in order to most effectively fight a Brooklyn warehouse fire that they call suspicious. The fire has kept burning after igniting Thursday...

A New York City police officer was hospitalized but not seriously hurt early Saturday morning. The incident happened in Brooklyn's Bushwick section. At about 3:30 a.m., the cop was on a break when he was shot in the chest while stepping into a...

She was outside enjoying the fresh air on a beautiful summer afternoon, and ended up shot to death. It happened late Friday in Bushwick. Police say 44-year-old Jesselle Page was sitting in the courtyard of her housing project on Moore Street around...

A higher power must have been looking over four laid-off Brooklyn nuns and dozens of their students as their school - that was slated to close - is set to reopen thanks to an anonymous donor. The unidentified person, described only as the son of...

A crude cop caught on tape harassing videographers is the subject of an internal police probe, according to a source in the NYPD. Bushwick neighbor Vlad Teichberg caught the Friday night confrontation on his hand held camera. The video file, which he...

Twenty-one years after its first class of inductees, the Rock & Rock Hall of Fame finally remedied its most glaring omission in 2007. - More: Music News Two years ago, Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five became the first rap group inducted. Since...

NEW YORK - Christmas came a little bit early to the Bushwick section of Brooklyn Wednesday, for students and staff at the Salvation Army's Bushwick Community Center. The Bushwick Avenue center received an extreme makeover, which included a top of the line...

BUSHWICK, N.Y. (WPIX) -- Family and friends are mourning the loss of a day care worker who slipped on ice and fell to her death underneath a moving city bus Friday night, according to New York City police. Hui Wu, 26, who worked with autistic children at...

A soldier whose family moved to the Pocono Mountains a year ago was killed Sunday in Iraq. Army Sgt. Jaror C. Puello-Coronado, 36, of 5337 Doe Drive in Long Pond, Monroe County, died when an out-of-control truck pinned him against a Humvee, said Sandra...

Earlier this year, two salespeople drove deep into the coal country of southern West Virginia on an improbable mission: selling expensive education software in one of the poorest corners of America. Logan County does not look like promising sales...