NEW YORK (AP) — The NYPD has arrested a 21-year-old man for allegedly raping a woman after threatening her with a gun at a bus stop.
Police say Damien Hollis of Brooklyn displayed a police shield after approaching the 26-year-old woman in Brooklyn.
The incident occurred on May 29, 2012.
Hollis was charged Friday with rape, criminal sexual act and criminal impersonation.
Police say the suspect brandished a...
WASHINGTON (AP) — The National Aquarium says it will close its Washington branch in the fall.
Officials announced Thursday that renovations at the Department of Commerce building that the aquarium has called home since 1932 make the move necessary.
Aquarium officials say they must leave by March 2014, but the aquarium will close Sept. 30 and begin moving the 1,500 animals housed there to the National Aquarium in Baltimore and other facilities....
Your daily look at late-breaking news, upcoming events and the stories that will be talked about today:
1 WHO MAY HAVE SURVIVED 17 DAYS IN BANGLADESH RUBBLE
Rescue workers stop clearing the site of a collapsed factory building after a soldier says a woman waved her hand at them.
2. WITHDRAWING FROM THE WORLD
A global gang of criminals drains $45 million in a matter of hours from reserves held by banks to fund...
SAN DIEGO (AP) — Federal prosecutors have released a surveillance video that was used in a case against a Border Patrol agent who was acquitted last month by a jury of a charge of choking a migrant.
A judge on Thursday ordered the U.S. Attorney's office to release the footage in response to a petition by news organizations, including The Associated Press.
In the video, Border Patrol agent Luis Fonseca is seen kneeing Adolfo Ceja in the thigh at a...
LAS VEGAS (AP) — O.J. Simpson will return next week to the Las Vegas courthouse where he was convicted of leading an armed sports memorabilia heist to ask a judge for a new trial on the grounds that his lawyer botched his case.
Simpson will take the witness stand to testify that the Florida lawyer who collected nearly $700,000 is to blame for his armed robbery and kidnapping conviction in 2008 and his failed appeal to the Nevada Supreme Court in 2010.
...Josh Knoller, a young professional in New York City, spent years refusing his mother's "Friend Request" on Facebook before, eventually, "caving in." Today they have an agreement: she'll try not to make embarrassing comments, and he can delete them if she does.
"We actually got into some pretty big fights over this," says Knoller, 29. "I love my Mom to death but she's a crazy, sweet Jewish mother and I was a little worried about what she might post in front of my closest...
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The America's Cup catamaran that capsized in San Francisco Bay, killing an Olympic gold medalist, nosedived during a difficult maneuver and broke into many pieces, an official said Friday.
The Artemis was conducting a maneuver that required it to change direction when it capsized on Thursday, America's Cup Regatta Director Iain Murray said.
The boat was practicing with the Oracle team.
"Artemis and Oracle...
Top baby names for girls in 2012
1. Sophia
2. Emma
3. Isabella
4. Olivia
5. Ava
6. Emily
7. Abigail
8. Mia
9. Madison
10. Elizabeth
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Top baby names for boys
1. Jacob
2. Mason
3....
WASHINGTON (AP) — Talk about high expectations for a newborn: King and Messiah are among the fastest-rising baby names for American boys.
They're just a little behind Major, the boy's name that jumped the most spots on the Social Security Administration's annual list of popular baby names.
Jacob is the most popular for boys — again — and Sophia is the top name for girls, according to the list released Thursday.
It was Jacob's...
"Once you see a large attack like this, that they made off with $45 million, that's going to wake up the cybercrime community." — Ken Pickering, who works in security intelligence at CORE Security, after U.S. prosecutors say a worldwide gang of criminals stole millions by hacking their way into a database of prepaid debit cards and then draining ATMs around the globe.
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"Capital punishment must be reserved for those crimes that are truly the worst...
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