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Kings County, NY - DA Hynes: Hefty Punishment For Assaults On NYC Transit Workers

Kings County, NY - The Brooklyn district attorney has a warning for you: Take a swipe at a transit worker and your next stop could be jail. District Attorney Charles Hynes said Tuesday that he has formed a unit to specifically prosecute assaults on bus drivers, subway operators and station agents. He said he will seek [...]

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Kings County, NY - DA Hynes: I Could Have Been A Criminal Myself Growing Up As A Child

Kings County, NY - Most people see the district attorney as a person whose primary duty is to put criminals behind bars. Addressing a group of teen volunteers from Kings County Hospital, however, Brooklyn district attorney Charles Hynes said that his ultimate goal was to help children from ending up on the wrong side of [...]

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Suspect Soldiers: Is there a link between postwar stress and crime?

Lance Cpl. Briones' criminal history in Kings County began long before he experienced the stress of a combat zone, and that criminal history is directly connected to his ending up in Iraq. Catherine Casey, right, a police investigator with the Minneapolis Police Department, is shown with daughter Deanna, who was killed by a drunken driver, a former Marine with a criminal record who served in Iraq....

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NYCLU, Other Advocates Still Fighting To Address Problems At Kings County Hospital

Last month, one of the more disgusting and disturbing scenes occurred in Kings County Hospital when 49 year old Esmin Green collapsed and died in the hospital's psychiatric emergency room. This AP video will tell the story. The New York Civil Liberties Union and other advocates have come together to press the city and the hospital on the issues at Kings County Hospital. Last week, the NYCLU announced...

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Kings County Death: NAMI Calls For Criminal Probe; Survey Shows Psychiatric Emergency Room Delays Are National Problem

Michael J. Fitzpatrick, executive director of the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI), the nation's largest grassroots organization dedicated to improving the lives of individuals and families affected by mental illnesses, has issued this statement: "NAMI continues to monitor the callous treatment and tragic death of Ms.

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of sick! no one helped dying woman... in kings county hospital!

SICK! No one helped dying woman... in Kings County HOSPITAL! A shocking video shows a woman dying on the floor in the psych ward at Kings County Hospital, while people around her, including a security guard, did nothing to help. After an hour, another mental patient finally got the attention of the indifferent hospital workers, according to the tape, obtained by the Daily News. Worse still, the surveillance...

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Patient dies waiting for bed at Brooklyn hospital

A 49-year-old mental patient waiting for a bed in Kings County Hospital fell out of a chair and died an hour before anyone came to check on her, the Health and Hospitals Corp. said Friday.

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Drunk-driving charges up in Kings County

RCMP in Kings County say there's been an "alarming increase" in the number of impaired drivers.

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Brooklyn, NY - A City With The Highest Divorce Rate In The U.S.

Brooklyn, NY - All our exes live in … Brooklyn? Yes, divorce cases are soaring in Kings County — up a whopping 30 percent since 2003. The surge covers uncontested divorces — which numbered 5,489 in 2004 and jumped to 7,035 last year. Contested divorces — the ones that get ugly — are up five percent, [...]

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Hynes Hosts Bloggers

Kings County District Attorney Charles J. Hynes played host to Brooklyn bloggers yesterday evening at his office. Besides your BHB correspondent, those present were: Jonathan Butler of Brownstoner, Rock Hackshaw of Room 8, Ron Howell of Brooklyn Ron, and Liza Sabater and David Michaelson of The Daily Gotham. Hynes described many ways in which [...]

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Tank explosion closes Highway 41 at Kettleman City

Highway 41 has been closed at Kettleman City where a large propane tank exploded Friday morning, causing the evacuation of the Kings County community about 75 miles northwest of Bakersfield.

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DA Hynes Announces Sentencing Of Former Assemblywoman Diane Gordon

Kings County District Attorney Charles J. Hynes today announced the sentencing of former Brooklyn Democratic Assemblywoman Diane Gordon to two to six years in prison before Justice Robert McGann. She received two to six years for Bribe Receiving in the Third Degree. In addition, Gordon received one-and-a-third to four years for each of the two counts [...]

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DA Hynes Announces Indictment in Fatal Building Collapse

Kings County District Attorney Charles J. Hynes, New York City Department of Investigation Commissioner Rose Gill Hearn, and New York City Department of Buildings Acting Commissioner Robert LiMandri today announced the indictment of William Lattarulo for his role in a construction collapse that killed a 30-year-old laborer, Lauro Ortega. Lattarulo is charged with Manslaughter in the [...]

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Het Dorp: A Virtual Tour of Bushwick Green

Thanks to my new (or would that be not-so-new) copy of History of Kings County Including Brooklyn, N.Y. I embarked on a little walking tour last weekend. My guide was the hybrid “map” depicted above. The map in white indicates the layout of “Het Dorp” or in English, “Bushwick Green”. The satellite map underneath of [...]

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Fixing Racist Canada, One Municipality At A Time

[NovaNewsNow] Kings County has been added to the Canadian Commission of UNESCO’s list of municipalities in the Canadian Coalition of Municipalities Against Racism and Discrimination. The county is municipality number 26 in Canada to join by a resolution of council, and only the third in Nova Scotia to do so. Halifax Regional Municipality and Truro [...]