Inwood (Manhattan, New York)

In the wake of an unsolved sexual assault case in the West Village, both citizen and police patrols are encouraging the general public to be aware and take extra precautions to remain safe. "We're seeing less cops," Guardian Angels founder Curtis Sliwa...

A Jefferson County grand jury this week indicted a Harpers Ferry, W.Va., man on charges of first-degree murder in the July 15 shooting death of his former girlfriend in Ranson, W.Va. Dwayne Ray Cook, 37, of Harpers Ferry, W.Va., is being held without...

Call it a crime of opportunity, against an all-to-common victim in Manhattan: a vulnerable female, walking home alone. "For no one to see or stop to help her. That's nothing to laugh at," said Lisa Blair. Police say no one saw a thing, expect for the...

One new popular Inwood playground is being bombarded on a daily basis by foul balls from the ball field next door. The Indian Playground, inside Inwood Hill Park, is an accident waiting to happen, some parents believe. They fear their children could get...

CEDARVILLE, Ohio — Kayla Peterson of Boonsboro graduated May 7 from Cedarville University with a bachelor of arts degree in theater design. Peterson is a 2007 graduate of Williamsport High School, and is the daughter of Tom and Renee Peterson of...

Police seized more than $13,000 and a golf ball-size amount of crystal methamphetamine from a vehicle stopped for speeding on Interstate 81 early Tuesday, according to Berkeley County Magistrate Court records. Two Georgia men, Steven Paul Mitcheltree,...

The following marriage licenses were issued in April in Washington County Jose Luis Rodriguez, 57, and Rosa Maria Arnold, 54, both of Waynesboro, Pa. Eric David Cramer, 37, and Debbie Ann Miller, 39, both of Boonsboro Louis Brandon Martelli, 29, and...

In fifty years of living in Manhattan, 80-year-old Delia Gluckin has never been fined for throwing anything into a city trash can -- until last Sunday. Gluckin, of Inwood, left her house in a hurry to meet a friend downtown and took her morning paper...

Police officers responding to a 911 call in the Inwood section of Manhattan early Sunday shot and killed a man. Four officers arrived at 121-123 Vermilyea Ave. around 5:15 after getting the call that an officer was being threatened and saw the man with a...

The 27th Annual Dominican Day Parade ended early Sunday afternoon, with Dominicans from all over grooving down the streets of New York to the sounds of merengue and bachata. The parade commenced at 35th Street and 6th Avenue, and ended at 62nd Street and...

A badly bruised, decomposing body found stuffed in a closet of a vacant Inwood apartment was identified Thursday, as that of a 19-year-old woman who went missing last week. Police have now charged Andre Velez, 23, with killing ex-girlfiend Glendalis...

INWOOD, N.Y. (WPIX) -- It's the sound that has become almost synonymous with the start of spring and it's music to every child's ears, but people in one Queens neighborhood say it's flat out infuriating. Inwood residents say they are steaming mad over...