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New Windsor, NY
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3 Hurt While Cleaning Up Block Party In New Windsor, 1 With Serious Head Injury (UPDATE) 3 Hurt While Cleaning Up Block Party In New Windsor, 1 With Serious Head Injury (UPDATE)
3 Hurt While Cleaning Up Block Party In New Windsor, 1 With Serious Head Injury (Update) Police have released new details after three men were hospitalized in an incident following a neighborhood block party in Orange County.  The incident happened late Saturday, Sept. 6, just before midnight on Frank Street in the Meadowbrook Estates development of New Windsor, according to a statement from the New Windsor Police Department on Monday, Sept. 8.  Officers arrived to find three injured men lying in the roadway. All were taken by ambulance to Montefiore St. Luke’s Cornwall Hospital in Newburgh.  Two of the men were treated and released with minor injuries. The thir…

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by Ben Crnic
New Windsor, NY
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New Windsor Block Party Ends In Multiple Hospitalizations, Chaos (DEVELOPING) New Windsor Block Party Ends In Multiple Hospitalizations, Chaos (DEVELOPING)
New Windsor Block Party Ends In Multiple Hospitalizations, Chaos (Developing) A neighborhood block party in the Hudson Valley ended with multiple people rushed to the hospital — at least two of them unconscious — just after midnight Sunday, Sept. 7, according to a preliminary account from Mark Lieb, of Rockland Video Productions. Police were called to Frank Street, off Joyce Way, in the Meadowbrook Estates development of New Windsor shortly after 12 a.m., Lieb said. The area is a community of large new homes. At the scene in New Windsor Mark Lieb/Rockland Video Productions When officers arrived, they found debris scattered along the road, folded tents and tables…

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by Cecilia Levine
Conshohocken-Plymouth Meeting, PA
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Standoff Leads To Arrest In Triple Fatal Mass Shooting That Injured 6 In Philly: US Marshals Standoff Leads To Arrest In Triple Fatal Mass Shooting That Injured 6 In Philly: US Marshals
Standoff Leads To Arrest In Triple Fatal Mass Shooting That Injured 6 In Philly: US Marshals A man wanted for a 2024 mass shooting at a Philadelphia block party that left three people dead and six others injured was arrested Thursday morning following a standoff, U.S. Marshals announced. Amir Jones, 32, was taken into custody by members of the U.S. Marshals Eastern Pennsylvania Violent Crimes Fugitive Task Force at an apartment on the 4900 block of Kershaw Street around 6 a.m. on Thursday, July 31, according to a statement from the Marshals. Jones had been on the run for a year after being charged with three counts of homicide in connection to the July 21, 2024, mass shooting on th…

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by Jillian Pikora
Jersey City, NJ
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5 People Shot At Jersey City Block Party: Authorities 5 People Shot At Jersey City Block Party: Authorities
5 People Shot At Jersey City Block Party: Authorities Five people were shot at an unauthorized block party in Jersey City on Sunday, June 29, authorities said. At 1:50 a.m., Jersey City police responded to Ocean Avenue and Wegman Parkway for a report of a disorderly crowd and double parked cars and upon arrival, heard shots fired, Kimberly Wallace-Scalfione, a spokeswoman for the Jersey City mayor's office said. Police rushed to Bidwell Avenue and Ocean Avenue where they found a victim lying in the street, Wallace-Scalfione said. He was transported to a local hospital in critical but stable condition, Wallace-Scalfione said. The victim is fac…

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by Sam Barron
Gaithersburg, MD
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High-Powered Rifle, Handgun Used In Hit-Run Shooting At MD Block Party That Injured Teen: PD High-Powered Rifle, Handgun Used In Hit-Run Shooting At MD Block Party That Injured Teen: PD
High-Powered Rifle, Handgun Used In Hit-Run Shooting At MD Block Party That Injured Teen: PD Nearly three dozen shots were fired at a Montgomery County block party over the weekend, leaving a teen hospitalized after she was struck by a stray bullet. Police say that shortly before 10 a.m. on Friday, June 2, officers responded to a block party in the 11400 block of Stewart Lane in Silver Spring where a 16-year-old was shot during a hit-and-run that marred the neighborly celebration.  A group of people were at the block party when a dark-colored sedan with three or four people inside rolled up to the event and began firing into the crowd, with at least one of the bullets striking…

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by Zak Failla
Massapequa, NY
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Duo Indicted In Fatal July 4th Shooting At Nassau County Block Party Duo Indicted In Fatal July 4th Shooting At Nassau County Block Party
Duo Indicted In Fatal July 4th Shooting At Nassau County Block Party Two men are facing felony charges in a shooting during a block party on Long Island that left a man dead and injured two others. Michael Wright, age 34, and Lawrence Sims, age 29, from Roosevelt, were indicted by a grand jury on Friday, Aug. 13, according to an announcement from Acting Nassau County District Attorney Joyce Smith on Monday, Sept. 27. Wright was arraigned on Monday, and Sims was arraigned on Friday, Sept. 10. “A traditional Fourth of July block party turned deadly when these two defendants – allegedly in a verbal argument – pulled guns and fired indiscriminately at one …

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by Nicole Valinote
Lower Merion-Narberth, PA
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Here's How To Claim Your Free Hoagie From Wawa Today In Philadelphia Here's How To Claim Your Free Hoagie From Wawa Today In Philadelphia
Here's How To Claim Your Free Hoagie From Wawa Today In Philadelphia Free Hoagie Day is under way in Philadelphia. Employees will be assembling 17,000 turkey hoagies at National Constitution Center from 5 a.m to 10 a.m. on Thursday, July 1. You can get your free hoagie during a block party at Independence Mall at 5th and 6th streets, beginning at noon. The first 5,000 sandwiches will be donated to Philabundance, and 2,000 will be given to the Police Athletic League of Philadelphia and the Veterans Multi-Service Center.

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by Cecilia Levine
Brookfield, CT
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Two Shot, One Hit By Car During Memorial Day Block Party In Fairfield County, Police Say Two Shot, One Hit By Car During Memorial Day Block Party In Fairfield County, Police Say
Two Shot, One Hit By Car During Memorial Day Block Party In Fairfield County, Police Say Two people were shot and one was hit by a vehicle during a large Memorial Day block party in Fairfield County. Officers responded to a report of shots fired in Bridgeport on Willow Street near Clermont Avenue where a large block party was taking place around 9:45 p.m., Monday, May 31. When officers arrived on the scene, they spotted a Black man wearing all black clothing with a hoodie displaying a gun who took off running toward Bridgeport Hospital, said Scott Appleby, the City of Bridgeport's Director of Emergency Management. While looking for the man, police called for medical assistance…

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by Kathy Reakes
Brookfield, CT
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Man Charged For Murder Of Fairfield County Mom Who Police Say Was Innocent Bystander Man Charged For Murder Of Fairfield County Mom Who Police Say Was Innocent Bystander
Man Charged For Murder Of Fairfield County Mom Who Police Say Was Innocent Bystander A Fairfield County man has been slapped with a murder charge for allegedly killing a 35-year-old area mother during a block party last year. Ian “Easy” Evans, 28, of Bridgeport, who was arrested last year after the Sunday, Sept. 20 incident which left Shernetta Dunmore, of Stamford dead, was arraigned on murder charges on Thursday, April 1. According to Bridgeport Police, gunshots rang out at approximately 12:15 a.m. Sept. 20 in the parking lot of the Ursula Place Housing Complex.  At the time of the shooting, 30 to 40 people were congregating in the parking lot for an end-of-summer p…

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by Kathy Reakes