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Libby Torres

Articles by Libby Torres


The NYPD said paramedics took the little girl to NYU Langone hospital in Brooklyn for treatment for leg pain after the incident.


A NYC woman was arrested by U.S. Marshals in Alabama on Thursday and charged in the death of her five-year-old son in Queens last year.


'It was biting at my leg, I had to do something.'


The M42 clocks in at an excruciating average of 3.2 MPH.


The horrifying deaths of six year-old Zymere Perkins and three year-old Jaden Jordan in 2016 provoked outrage over the handling of the children's cases by the ACS.


While the source of the explosion is still under investigation, city officials say the pipe was lined with asbestos.


WFAN sports radio host Joe Benigno is facing sexual harassment allegations in a lawsuit filed earlier this week by former WFAN ad executive Lauren Lockwood.


A 13-year-old Brooklyn girl says public school officials in Brooklyn shrugged off her claim that a classmate raped her after school, according to a lawsuit filed against the city on Friday.


Currently, 4 out of 59 of the city's community districts—in North Brooklyn, the South Bronx, Southeast Queens, and Southeast Brooklyn—collectively handle at least 75 percent of the city's trash.


The Shambhala Buddhist community in North America is being rocked by allegations of sexual abuse at the highest level.


The rope was tangled around sensitive parts of the animal's face like eye and blowhole; if rescuers had left the sea creature alone, 'the whale would have died a slow and painful death.'


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