A well-known journalist from Portugal was brutally beaten and mutilated inside a room of a posh Times Square hotel Friday, police sources said.
The naked body of Carlos Castro, 65, was found lying face-up in a pool of blood inside his 34th-floor room at the InterContinental New York Times Square on W. 44th St. about 7p.m., the sources said.
Officers seized about 200 marijuana plants inside a Bronx home yesterday, authorities said.
A multiagency task force hauled stalks of weed from two apartments inside an E. 197th St. building near Decatur Ave. in Bedford Park at about 12:40 p.m., authorities said.
The bust came after a joint investigation by the agencies - which included the NYPD, Drug… Continue
Motorists in Interstate 95 in Conn. Got to see a strange sight Thursday as a man in an electric wheelchair buzzed down the highway. He was not issued a ticket, but police do say it is… Continue
A killer who beat his 2-month-old daughter to death and threw her body into a trash compactor in the Bronx was sentenced Thursday to 19 years in prison.
Juan Rodriguez, 35, avoided a life sentence by cutting a deal with prosecutors and pleading guilty to manslaughter.
"His own daughter's life meant nothing to him," said Eddie Rosario, Rodriguez's uncle. "I… Continue
In a case of life imitating art, Maroon 5 frontman Adam Levine has brought the name of the band's recent album, "Hands All Over," to life in a stunning nude pictorial – all for a good cause.
Levine, 31, appears stripped down in the February issue of British Cosmopolitan with the hands of his girlfriend, Victoria's Secret model Anne Vyalitsyna, covering his… Continue
A Staten Island man was caught chatting up a hooker in Greenwich Village and then busted after trying to outrun cops in his city-owned car, sources told the Daily News.
John Caccavale, 48, a water and sewer operations manager for the Department of Environmental Protection, was spotted about 4:25 a.m. Wednesday, police said.
Woods' face has been dropped from the cover of the latest version of his best-selling video game, EA Sports' "Tiger Woods PGA Tour 12: The Masters."
In a seemingly crafty bit of branding from the gamemaker -- which saw sales of last year's installment plummet in the wake of the golfing legend's infidelity… Continue
A 13-year-old Ohio girl stared down the man who kidnapped and raped her as he pleaded guilty on Thursday to dismembering her mother, brother and a neighbor before stuffing their remains in a tree.
Matthew Hoffman will spend the rest of his life in prison after admitting to the November murders of Tina Herrmann, 32, her 11-year-old son Kody Maynard and Stephanie… Continue
PASADENA - Oprah Winfrey says the first two days of her OWN television network generated 866 pages of viewer messages - and she has personally read "more than 200" of them.
It's an encouraging response, Winfrey told the Television Critics Association here Thursday, to what she called "a gift" - the Oprah Winfrey Network.
Nas just had his child and spousal support obligations sliced in half, but he still has to pay ex-wife Kelis a pretty penny.
According to legal docs filed in L.A. County Superior Court, Nas must now pay a tad over $5,000 a month in child support and $20,000 a month in spousal support.
It sounds like a lot, but Nas was paying twice that until he convinced the… Continue
Los Angeles (CNN) -- A task force made up of local and federal law enforcement agencies is actively pursuing leads into the 1997 slaying of hip hop artist Christopher Wallace, better known as Biggie Smalls or Notorious B.I.G., according to two sources familiar with the investigation.
According to one law enforcement source, the investigation into the… Continue
A Siberian tiger mauled and killed a tour bus driver in China as his passengers watched helplessly in horror.
The vicious animal attacked driver Jin Shijun after he got out of his vehicle to check on the bus, which got stuck in the snow at a tiger breeding base in the northern province of Heilongjiang, Chinese media reported Thursday.
A hip-hop producer says erratic diva Foxy Brown's missed studio sessions - and not her ex-manager - halted release of the raunchy rapper's new album last month.
"She can't meet deadlines on anything," griped Daddy Digg$ of Platinum Camp Productions in an interview Wednesday with the Daily News.
Diggs$ spoke one day after The News reported Brown's… Continue
Kanye West is being sued by a photographer who says he was pummeled by the rapper and his people at a 2008 party underneath the Queensboro Bridge.
Michael Vazquez is demanding unspecified damages for the beatdown he says he suffered at the hands of the "Gold Digger" hitmaker and several security guards at Guastavino's on East 59th Street.
Thousands of dead crabs have washed up along the Kent coast – the latest in a series of bizarre animal deaths sweeping the world.
More than 40,000 Devil crabs – also known as Velvet swimming crabs – were found strewn along beaches in Thanet along with dead starfish, lobsters, sponges and anemones.
Experts believe the crabs died from hypothermia after the… Continue
A turtle in Israel and a goose in England both suffered unfortunate accidents, but some inventive vets managed to give both some normalcy on Wednesday.
Tzivka, a turtle, was paralyzed in her rear legs when a lawn mower incident caused severe damage to her shell and spinal cord two months… Continue
A Seattle woman is fighting for her life and four people are dead after an unhinged man set his family on fire using gasoline and a torch at a Puerto Rico dinner party.
Kate Donahue, 25, traveled with her fiancé, Jesus Sanchez, from Washington to Florida, Puerto Rico, to meet her soon-to-be family.
But as soon as 14 people sat down for an early New Year's… Continue
With a bevy of babes wedged around him, "Scary Movie"star Marlon Wayans took in some of the tan, scantily clad natural beauty of trendy Punta del Este, Uruguay on Tuesday.