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Nov 27, 2011 at 11:12 am

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Sad! Man Killed Shortly After Being Freed For Murder He Didn’t Commit

A 23-year-old Bronx, N.Y. man who was acquitted of murder in March after spending 4 years behind bars for a crime he did not commit was fatally shot last Monday near his home, police say.

David Clarke, the ex-murder suspect released from Rikers Island in March after a jury overturned his 2007 murder conviction,

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Aug 29, 2011 at 9:29 am

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Homeless Hero Saves Children From Burning House

NEW YORK — A homeless man from the Bronx named Jeffrey Richards saved a 2-year-old and a 5-year-old from a burning house by climbing the building and pulling them down.

The fire would injure 10 firefighters and caused a 2-alarm-blaze.

The New York Daily New reports:

A homeless man climbed onto the awning of a neighboring building and helped grab a child from a second-story window.

“I climbed the porch and got up on the

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Jan 31, 2011 at 10:57 am

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Hip Hop Founder Kool DJ Herc Is Very Sick With No Health Insurance

BRONX-Kool DJ Herc, the deejay many credit with founding hip hop music is very ill without health insurance to help him pay his medical bills.

DJ Premier of the group Gangstarr said on his Sirius radio show:

For those that know about Hip-Hop, who we call the father of Hip-Hop, Kool Herc, is not doing well. It’s funny how we have a father of a culture that still lives, where

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Jan 27, 2011 at 12:01 pm

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Glenn Beck Mocks Bronx “Socialist” Co-Op Housing

Fox News pundit, Glenn Beck has heavily criticized the Bronx’s Co-Op city, a cooperative housing development that offers affordable housing. He compared the development to communist Russia. On his Fox show he said:

Once you say there’s a place where everyone’s life is interchangeable, everyone then has exactly the same stuff, which sounds like these beautiful complexes. Do you want to live there? This is Co-op City. Oh man! This is

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Dec 21, 2010 at 1:43 pm

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Latino Charged With Hate Crime For Smashing Plate On White Man Dining With Black Man

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Details are unfolding in the case of Latino Skidmore College student, Justin Tavarez, charged with a hate crime for smashing a plate over a white man’s head. The New York Daily News reports:

A college student from the Bronx has been charged with a felony hate crime upstate after smashing a plate over the head of a white man who was sitting at a diner with a black man,

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Sep 20, 2010 at 6:30 am

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Heroin Floods Bronx Street; Resembles NY of the ’80′s

Despite its lovely name, Valentine Ave. in the Bronx is one of the worst drug spots in the city, so notorious that the U.S. drug czar brought along six bodyguards when he visited in June.

A two-block stretch of Valentine, just steps from the historic cottage where Edgar Allan Poe lived, has come to resemble

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