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Coach Dwight Downer had just parked his car and was taking the short walk home last weekend when he was hit and killed by a driver in a tragic crash. The youth football coach volunteered his time as a coach with the Bronx Buccaneers Youth Football Program and the teams at Dewitt Clinton High School. “I always say, I got…

A man who volunteered his time to coach youth football in the Bronx is being mourned by loved ones and players alike. Coach Dwight Downer had just parked his car when he was hit and killed by a driver. News 4’s Jessica Cunnington reports.

A man died Saturday after he was assaulted in the Bronx by his landlord, police sources told News 4. The law enforcement sources said the landlord beat his tenant, 30-year-old Kristopher Samaroo, over unpaid rent. The deadly assault happened at a home off the Throgs Neck Expressway. Samaroo died at a nearby hospital. The NYPD announced two arrests on Sunday….

Police said a little girl was outside with her mom, just steps from her home in the Bronx, when a man on a scooter hit the 3-year-old and leaving her with a fractured skull. The hit-and-run happened Friday afternoon in the Williamsbridge section of the Bronx. The family of Myli Rojas said they are hoping for the best after the…

A man is wanted for allegedly knocking a girl down outside her Bronx home the day after Thanksgiving, leaving her bleeding on the street. News 4’s Charles Watson reports. 

Officers shot a suspect who flashed a gun at them just blocks away from a playground in the Soundview neighborhood in the middle of the afternoon. NBC New York’s Chris Jose reports.

Two NYPD officers fired their weapons at a gun-wielding suspect in the Bronx, with one of the shots striking the man in the leg, according to a law enforcement source.

Video showed the moment a man plowed his SUV into a group of people in a Bronx parking lot, sending five people to the hospital in an incident stemming from some sort of argument.

Surveillance video obtained exclusively by NBC New York shows what police said is the moment a man plowed his SUV into a group of people in a Bronx parking lot. Five people were sent to the hospital, and police were still looking for the driver. NBC New York’s Gaby Acevedo reports on what led up to the incident. 

The death of an 11-month-old girl in the Bronx was determined to have been a homicide, according to the city’s medical examiner.

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez took to social media to address split-ticket New York voters who supported her candidacy and President-elect Donald Trump, as Democrats grapple with the fallout of Vice President Kamala Harris’ defeat. On Monday, Ocasio-Cortez, a Democrat, posted an election debrief to her more than eight million Instagram followers. She wondered how those who backed her reelection also voted…

The August death of a 4-month-old boy in the Bronx during the summer was ruled a homicide, as the investigation continues, the NYPD announced Thursday. On Aug.10, at around 9:12 p.m., police responded to a 911 call of a child at Eagle Avenue. When officers arrived, according to police, they found an unconscious and unresponsive 4-month-old boy. The child was…

A community in the Bronx gathered to remember two infants who were found dead outside a building in 2020. The case is still a mystery, but detectives aren’t giving up hope of finding the twins’ killer and delivering justice in memory of the infants. NBC New York’s Marc Santia reports.

Friday marked four years since two infants were found dead outside a Bronx apartment building. Their deaths are still shrouded in mystery, but detectives have not given up hope of finding their killer and delivering justice in memory of the twin boys.

Some in the Castle Hill neighborhood of the Bronx said that Donald Trump’s visit to a local barbershop weeks before Election Day had an impact on voters, especially Latino men.

The owner of a Bronx barbershop that president-elect Donald Trump visited as part of his campaign said the former president left a lasting impact. NBC New York’s Gaby Acevedo reports.

A man carrying a firearm with a loaded cartridge in a bag was arrested after trying access a restricted area at a Bronx subway station, according to a senior law enforcement official.

The smoke was visible for miles, from Van Cortlandt Park over the Major Deegan Expressway in the Bronx. The FDNY used drones overhead to pinpoint and target hot spots from four separate fires inside the park. NBC New York’s Rana Novini reports.

Firefighters worked to put out a large brush fire in the Bronx, sending smoke into the air that was visible for miles. Chopper 4 was over the scene of the fire, which was burning in a wooded area of Van Courtland Park, near the Major Deegan Expressway and not far from a number of homes in the area. The fire,…

Heavy smoke can be seen for miles Monday morning from a brush fire burning near the Major Deegan Expressway in the Bronx.