Michael Kent was sentenced to nine years for running a pill mill, distributing over 1.2 million oxycodone pills. Five co-defendants pleaded guilty, awaiting January 2025 trials.

A 61-year-old woman died in a Far Rockaway house fire; officials are investigating the cause. Her husband, unaware at the time, expressed his shock and grief.

Born in N.Y. and raised in the S.F. Bay Area, Tupac Shakur has been known as one of the greatest rappers of all time. He was inextricably tied to Los Angeles but met his sad end in an infamous drive by shooting in Las Vegas. Today, an individual has been arrested in connection to that shooting.

Overall crime in New York declined again last month, according to crime statistics released by the New York Police Department.