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Garden City, NY

Business

Amazon Warns Of Scam Surge As Prime Day Starts: What To Know Prime members are being urged to stay vigilant following a new scam warning by Amazon as its annual Prime Day event gets underway. Prime Day is often used by scammers as cover for phishing attempts and impersonation fraud. It runs from Tuesday, July 8, through Friday, July 11. The company says fraudsters are increasingly targeting shoppers with fake emails, texts, and phone calls that appear to come from Amazon. The goal: to trick users into handing over personal or financial information. In many cases, the messages create a false sense of urgency, such as a problem with an ord…

by Joe Lombardi

07/07/2025

Yonkers, NY

Police & Fire

ID Released Of Woman, 23, Killed While Walking Against Traffic On I-87 In Westchester (Update) Authorities have released the identity of a woman who was struck and killed while walking on Interstate 87 in Westchester last week. Mariely Chavez, age 23, was fatally struck while walking on I-87 South in Yonkers between Exits 6A and 6 on Thursday morning, July 3, New York State Police said on Monday, July 7. No address for Chavez was given. According to police, troopers were first alerted around 3:37 a.m. about a pedestrian walking northbound in the southbound lanes of the highway. Just minutes later, at around 3:43 a.m., they received a report that the woman had …

by Ben Crnic

07/07/2025

North Plainfield, NJ

News

Officials ID Mom Of Two, 44, Killed By Storms That Swept Through New Jersey Officials have identified the 44-year-old woman killed by storms that swept through New Jersey last week. Diana Ospina, of Middlesex, had pulled over to the side of Greenbrook Road on Thursday, July 3 in North Plainfield, when a large tree and a large portion of the sidewalk uprooted, landing on her 2018 Jeep Grand Cherokee, local police said. A GoFundMe launched by Pedro Bessa for Diana's family said she was a mother of two boys, Derek and Jacob. She also leaves behind a loving husband, Robert Ospina. The campaign had raised more than $9,000 as of press time. "Diana’s love for her f…

by Cecilia Levine

07/07/2025

Harrisburg, PA

News

Baby’s Skull In Noose Found At Mütter Museum Tied To Woman’s Shocking Murders Of 5 Infants A baby skull still bearing a noose was discovered at a Philadelphia museum — and it's been linked to a 45-year-old murder case in Gallitzin, Cambria County Coroner Jeff Lees announced during a Monday, July 7 news conference. The remains, found at the Mütter Museum, belonged to one of five babies hidden in an attic trunk at the home of Stella Elizabeth Williamson, a Gallitzin woman who died in 1980. After her death, authorities were led to the attic, where they found the bodies of four newborns and one infant, wrapped in newspapers from the 1920s and ’30s. The case made national headlines at…

by Jillian Pikora

07/07/2025

Union, NJ

News

NJ Releases List Of Cops Suspended, Fired In 2024: See Why The New Jersey Attorney General’s Office has released its 2024 Major Discipline Report, giving the public a detailed look into disciplinary actions taken against law enforcement officers across the state. The report — published Monday, July 7 — lists the names of 543 officers from 172 agencies who were suspended for more than five days, demoted, or fired last year. The release is part of a broader transparency initiative launched in 2021, aimed at increasing public access to police misconduct records. The searchable report, available on the Attorney General’s website, includes summaries des…

by Cecilia Levine

07/07/2025

Red Hook, NY

Police & Fire

Cold Case Investigation To Cause Increased Police Presence In Dutchess County Town Residents in a northern Dutchess County town are urged to stay alert as police confirmed a heavy law enforcement presence in the area as the result of a cold case investigation. The advisory, issued by New York State Police on Monday, July 7, confirmed a "heavy police presence" in the town of Red Hook in the area of Spring Lake on Spring Lake Road. The activity stems from an ongoing investigation into a 1993 homicide case, police added. Authorities said there is no threat to the public. No more information has been released. This is a developing story. Check back to Daily Voice for …

by Ben Crnic

07/07/2025

Ridgefield Park-Hasbrouck Heights, NJ

News

NJ Motorcyclist Dies Days After Being Struck By Driver Making Wrong Turn, Police Say A 25-year-old Moonachie man who was critically injured in a crash last week on Bergen Turnpike in Little Ferry has died from his injuries, police confirmed. Chandler Dippel died Saturday, July 5, four days after his motorcycle was struck by a car making an illegal left turn, Little Ferry Police Chief James Walters confirmed. Dippel, who worked at tow Bergen Brookside, was mourned by his fiance Mary Jane as the "definition of full love." "He always kept my vase full of flowers and he never left them empty," she tells Daily Voice. "He was an amazing lover, spoiling me and creating plans for …

by Cecilia Levine

07/06/2025

Fairfield, CT

Police & Fire

NY Man Vanishes In Caribbean; Body Found During Search, Police Investigating as Homicide Police on the Caribbean islands of Turks and Caicos have opened a homicide investigation after a 51-year-old New York man vanished in the middle of the night last month while vacationing with his wife, according to a new report. Brian Tarrence, of Manhattan, who had flown to the island to celebrate his first wedding anniversary, was last seen leaving his Airbnb around 4 a.m. on June 25. He was walking toward Grace Bay, NBC News reported. The Royal Turks and Caicos Islands Police Force discovered a decomposing body in Grace Bay on Saturday, July 5. Authorities have not officially identified …

by Josh Lanier

07/06/2025

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