Saturday, July 10, 2010

Brooklyn News Bits


  • Taunted airline worker sues

    A Pakistani-American airline engineer from Brooklyn is suing his firm for allegedly allowing co-workers to taunt him by calling him "bomb-maker." Jamil...

  • Arab principal ends fight

    Arab principal ends fight

    The ousted founder of a controversial Arabic public school has dropped an appeal of her free-speech case against the city, a lawyer for the city said yesterday. Debbie Almontaser, who as principal of the Khalil Gibran...

  • It's courtship

    If love's a crime, he's guilty as charged. Court officers yanked a love-struck suspect out of a hearing yesterday after he planted a kiss on co-defendant...

  • Con Ed worker helps save woman from burning building

    Con Ed worker helps save woman from burning building

    A Con Ed worker rushed into a burning Brooklyn apartment building early this morning to evacuate sleeping tenants then miraculously helped revive a fellow Good Samaritan who was overcome by the thick the smoke, witnesses said....

  • Geezer gangster guilty

    Geezer gangster guilty

    A Brooklyn jury yesterday ensured that the underboss of the Colombo crime family will spend the rest of his life behind bars -- which might not mean much, considering that he's 93. Once one of the most feared mobsters on Long...

  • Fire erupts at historic B'klyn church; 4 injured

    Fire erupts at historic B'klyn church; 4 injured

    A fire erupted at a historic New York City church overnight, injuring four FDNY firefighters. Firefighters say the blaze was reported Wednesday night at the Baptist Temple church in Brooklyn. The church was built in the 1890s and...

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