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A man with a head full of racist tattoos — including one that reads “AM A PSYCHOTIC NEO NAZI SERIAL KILLER SKIN HEAD FOREVER FOREVER” — got into a car accident with an Asian delivery man on bicycle in Brooklyn Monday night, authorities said. The heavily inked motorist was behind the wheel of a U-Haul...

A Harlem principal accused in a cheating scandal killed herself by jumping in front of a train in 2015, leaving her estranged husband and mother to fight over her multimillion-dollar estate. But then the husband died, and his girlfriend has taken up the fight. Leontine Turner, 74, filed suit in 2015 to take control of...

An elderly woman known to neighbors as a “classic hoarder” was killed Monday night when flames engulfed her cluttered, “fire hazard” of a home in Queens, authorities said. The widow, who lived by herself in a two-story 252nd Street home in Jamaica, was burned in the blaze that started at about 7:30 p.m., officials said....

A cat fight is raging over water on Roosevelt Island. Operators of a feline sanctuary say they are struggling to care for their 22 “Island Cats” after the corporation that controls utilities on the island cut off the facility’s water. The taps have been dry at the Wildlife Freedom Foundation’s cat enclosure for about a...