Crime

MAKHACHKALA, Russia — Russia's volatile North Caucasus, which the two suspects in the Boston Marathon bombings once called home, have seen two decades of brutal fighting between Russian forces and separatists bent on carving out an independent Islamic state. … Full Article

A 14-year-old boy has been arrested in connection with a bomb scare -- an apparent prank that hit Bay Ridge several days ago, police said. … Full Article

Police are seeking a three-year-old boy and his father who allgedly kidnapped the boy from a Bedford-Stuyvesant apartment on Tuesday, April 16. … Full Article

Police closed Cadman Plaza West between Montague and Tillary streets in Brooklyn Heights at roughly 5:30 p.m. on Wednesday, April 17, after the report of a suspicious object at TD Bank on Montague Street was called in. … Full Article

BOSTON (AP) — Police and reporters converged on the federal courthouse in a jittery Boston on Wednesday amid reports of a breakthrough in the investigation of the marathon bombings and conflicting information on whether a suspect was in custody. … Full Article

Residents on one Bay Ridge block, whose nerves might have been jittery in the wake of the Boston Marathon bombing, had even more reason to be frightened when someone left what looked like a bomb on the front porch of a house on April 17.  … Full Article

Brooklyn Borough President Marty Markowitz said on Tuesday that Borough Hall, in Downtown Brooklyn, would be bathed in green lights all week to commemorate the victims of  … Full Article

In the wake of the horrific bombings in Boston on April 15, Gov. Andrew Cuomo released a statement expressing solidarity with the people of that city. … Full Article

The deadly explosions at the Boston Marathon reverberated on both sides of the Atlantic as cities from Los Angeles to London saw a surge in security. … Full Article

An unidentified man was struck and killed by the G train at the Nassau Avenue station in Greenpoint late Monday afternoon, according to the NYPD. "The preliminary indication is he jumped," a police spokesperson told the Brooklyn Eagle. … Full Article