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SEAN 'DIDDY' COMBS has assured fans he did not make any money from a party in memory of his late pal NOTORIOUS B.I.G. on Tuesday - after complaints about the sky-high entrance fee.

The New York Post reported that eight members of the Colombo crime family were charged yesterday in Brooklyn federal court for allegedly offering kickbacks to a foreman at the Ground Zero site.

The troubled Justice Department unit that investigates corruption of public officials is getting new leadership amid a criminal probe into how it handled evidence in the prosecution of Republican Sen.

Mayor Michael Bloomberg is a 3-foot-tallA bobblehead, according to a press release distributed by Develop Don't Destroy Brooklyn, a coalition that opposes the Atlantic Yards megaproject and that plans toA protest during the ceremonial groundbreaking on Thursday.

A top administrator at Rockland Psychiatric Center was fired after promising another worker, his sister and girlfriend jobs and promotions for buying his New Jersey condominium and then making an illegal loan so the man could get a mortgage, according to a state report.

An e-mail blast from Rev. Billy today announced that there will be a mock Atlantic Yards groundbreaking and funeral for the soul of Brooklyn at 12:30 PM tomorrow, followed by an "anti-celebration" counterpointing Developer Bruce Ratner's celebration, beginning at 1PM.

The city will take on the primary responsibility for building and operating the 85-acre Brooklyn Bridge Park under an agreement with the state announced Wednesday.

The driver wanted for a Brooklyn hit-and-run that left a heroic young mayoral aide in a coma confessed to cops Wednesday, just hours after leaving a mental hospital.

A 22-year-old Brooklyn man was apprehended after he attempted to evade for driving a stolen vehicle erratically in Lawrence on Tuesday morning, Nassau County police said.A Anthony P. Wilson Officers spotted Anthony P. Wilson recklessly driving a Honda Civic with a Pennsylvania registration northbound on Route 878 when he crashed the into a rear ...

In what the media has labeled a "bias attack," five men assaulted a lone 22-year-old victim in the Carroll Gardens section of Brooklyn, a gentrified neighborhood that Wikipedia describes as a middle class enclave "sprinkled with cafes, boutiques and antique shops." Local news channel WABC reported that the attack took place at about 8:00 p.m. on ...

New York City Police are investigating an alleged gay bias beating of a 22 year old hispanic male that occurred in Brooklyn in the early morning hours of March 2. The victim, who suffered lacerations to the back of the head and bruises to the face, was allegedly attacked by 5 male hispanics at the corner of Luquer Street and Hamilton Avenue in the ...

BELGRADE, Serbia -- Prosecutors filed charges Tuesday against Serbian student Miladin Kovacevic for inflicting "severe bodily harm with possible deadly consequences", stemming from an assault nearly two years ago against a fellow university student in the United States.

Brooklyn residents Monday were still shocked by Sundaya TMs parking-lot accident at a church parking lot at 2407 McDonald Ave., Gravesend.

A Brooklyn suspect is still at-large after two cops and several other suspects were arrested in what cops are calling a brazen yet dumb robbery of high-class perfume.

Not even the scare of unexplained white powder being delivered to the judge's chambers could slow down this trial.

DEVELOP DONa TMT DESTROY BROOKLYNContact:A Daniel Goldstein, DDDB Spokesman. 917-701-3056MEDIA ALERT: March 9, 2010Thursday, March 11.

Gov. Paterson makes his point Monday at town hall meeting at Brooklyn Borough Hall.

Police say they are investigating a Brooklyn shooting that killed a 24-year-old man and injured a 10-year-old girl.

ALBANY -- Voters are so fed up with state government that a majority of them are embarrassed to even call themselves New Yorkers, a Siena College poll Monday found.

Cops in Brooklyn shot dead a man who pointed an imitation pistol at them in a Monday afternoon confrontation outside an elementary school.