By John J. Galluzzo Beauty pageants, summer sunshine and even a presidential visit were offset by a rash of car accidents, powerful summer storms and at least one man falling down an elevator shaft ...

New York police honor fallen officer Didarul Islam with funeral services after he was killed by a gunman in a Midtown office ...

Islam came to New York City from his native Bangladesh when he was 20 years old, with "the promise of a better life," NYPD ...

Police have lined up four rows deep to pay respects to a fellow officer who was among the victims of a gunman's rampage at a ...

LIMA— A crew of workers accidentally discovered a mummy more than 1,000 years old while installing gas pipes in Peru’s capital Lima, their employer and archeologists said Thursday. The mummy was found ...

Hundreds of officers from as many as 54 of the city’s 77 precincts in the city, as well as from states and counties in the surrounding area, attended the funeral ...

But in 1832, people believed cholera was linked to intemperance and vice, which were thought to weaken the body. According to the prevailing miasma theory, it caused outbreaks once airborne.

Trailblazing Black journalist John Edward Bruce was buried in an unmarked grave in Yonkers, but he will soon get a long overdue honor.

Didarul Islam's casket, draped in the NYPD flag, was carried by officers through the streets of the Bronx to Parkchester Jame Masjid on July 31.