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City corrections officer arrested in Bed-Study fire that injured 12

An arrest has been made in a Brooklyn residential fire that injured 12 people, five of them critically. The fire occurred Thursday morning in a three-story brownstone on Chauncey Street in Bedford-Stuyvesant. … Full Article

De Blasio, Brooklyn community groups back in court, seek to intervene at LICH

In the latest in a series of legal filings, Public Advocate Bill de Blasio and six Brooklyn civic groups filed a motion in court on Friday to give the local community a say in determining the next owner of Long Island College Hospital (LICH). … Full Article

Thompson says ‘Fix schools, don’t close them!’

Democratic mayoral candidate Bill Thompson, the former president of the city’s Board of Education, unveiled a plan that he said would improve public schools and give parents more of a voice in shaping the city’s educational policy. … Full Article

Downtown construction wave resumes, bringing new residential units to 13,000, needing schools

Give us a school to call our own. … Full Article

As fight for LICH goes on, nurses flex new political muscles in NYC

The battle to save threatened hospitals in Brooklyn has galvanized the New York State Nurses Association (NYSNA) into flexing its increasingly robust political muscles and endorsing, for the first time in its history, candidates for New York City offices. … Full Article

Convicted cop killer, sentenced to death, seeks new trial

After a second jury hands-down death penalty sentence, Ronell Wilson is seeking a new trial, citing prosecutors’ "improper and harmful arguments" at trial. … Full Article

Williamsburg pharmacy owner indicted in $800,000 Medicaid fraud case

An indictment accuses a Brooklyn pharmacy owner of running an $800,000 Medicaid scheme. The Brooklyn district attorney's office said Thursday that Aleksandr Ilyayev allegedly billed Medicaid for HIV medications that were not dispensed, or were only partly dispensed. … Full Article

11 injured, some seriously, in Bed-Stuy fire

The FDNY says 11 people have been injured, some of them critically, in a Brooklyn residential fire. … Full Article

Brooklyn judge places LICH property in ‘constructive trust,’ says Othmer Fund must be repaid

In a two-part decision and order on Wednesday, state Supreme Court Justice Carolyn Demarest approved SUNY Downstate’s request to put off reopening Long Island College Hospital’s (LICH) Intensive Care Unit and restoring full operation of the Emergency Department and ambulance service until Septemb … Full Article