http://www.mail.com/locations/14836-bronx.html Mail.com - the best personalized free web-based Email en en http://sec-s.uicdn.com/mail.com/2.28/img/mailcom_logo_rss.png http://www.mail.com/locations/14836-bronx.html http://www.mail.com/entertainment/music/2104650-bronx-ghetto-tours-amid-residents-outrage.html NEW YORK (AP) — A company that promised sightseer tours to the Bronx that included a New York City "ghetto" has stopped the bus rides under protest from an outraged neighborhood. Real Bronx Tours, which took mostly European tourists from Manhattan to see life in the South Bronx "from a safe distance," issued a statement this week saying it would immediate... Thu, 23 May 2013 13:16:43 GMT http://www.mail.com/entertainment/music/2104650-bronx-ghetto-tours-amid-residents-outrage.html 2013-05-23T13:16:43Z http://www.mail.com/entertainment/celebrity/2064988-sotomayor-speaks-nyc-literature-festival.html NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor has said she wants to be called just "Sonia from the Bronx." And on Sunday, the first Hispanic justice on the nation's highest court explained why, saying "you can't come from the world I grew up in, the South Bronx, without feeling the frenzy of exile, constantly." She spoke a... Mon, 06 May 2013 05:08:22 GMT http://www.mail.com/entertainment/celebrity/2064988-sotomayor-speaks-nyc-literature-festival.html 2013-05-06T05:08:22Z http://www.mail.com/news/politics/2047738-ny-da-too-late-to-prosecute-school-abuse-case.html NEW YORK (AP) — A systemic pattern of suspected sexual abuse existed at an elite New York City prep school from the 1970s until the mid-1990s, but the statute of limitations to prosecute them has expired, prosecutors said Friday. The Bronx district attorney's office and the New York Police Department launched an investigation into allegations of abuse at ... Fri, 26 Apr 2013 21:40:05 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/politics/2047738-ny-da-too-late-to-prosecute-school-abuse-case.html 2013-04-26T21:40:05Z http://www.mail.com/news/world/2018632-take-bait-nypd-anti-theft-tactics-criticized.html NEW YORK (AP) — Sometimes the bait is a small amount of cash in a stray wallet. Or a credit card. Even a pack of cigarettes can do the trick. Police in New York City leave the items unattended — on subway platforms, on park benches, in cars — and wait to see if someone grabs them. The New York Police Department says the practice has been a valuable tool f... Sun, 14 Apr 2013 15:27:54 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/world/2018632-take-bait-nypd-anti-theft-tactics-criticized.html 2013-04-14T15:27:54Z http://www.mail.com/news/politics/2012474-reagan-son-urges-nyc-gop-to-carrions-mayor-bid.html NEW YORK (AP) — It sounds like a mismatch: An illustrious Republican president's son supporting a Democrat-turned-independent, ex-Obama administration official in his quest to run for New York City mayor on the GOP line. But conservative commentator Michael Reagan is urging city Republican leaders to give Adolfo Carrion Jr. permission to run in the primar... Thu, 11 Apr 2013 07:17:58 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/politics/2012474-reagan-son-urges-nyc-gop-to-carrions-mayor-bid.html 2013-04-11T07:17:58Z http://www.mail.com/news/politics/1997220-advocates-call-reforms-ny-scandal.html ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — The latest in a long string of New York political scandals shows the ongoing need to remove money from Albany politics, advocates for campaign finance reform said. A day after Democratic state Sen. Malcolm Smith, City Councilman Daniel Halloran, two high-ranking city Republican Party officials and the mayor and deputy mayor of suburban... Thu, 04 Apr 2013 19:28:47 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/politics/1997220-advocates-call-reforms-ny-scandal.html 2013-04-04T19:28:47Z http://www.mail.com/news/world/1993346-justice-sotomayor-visits-puerto-rico-book-tour.html SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor visited Puerto Rico to present her new memoir on Tuesday, drawing hundreds of fans in her parents' homeland. The visit by the first Latina Supreme Court justice was an unscheduled stop on her book tour. Sotomayor greeted a large crowd of students and teachers Tuesday morning as she en... Tue, 02 Apr 2013 22:42:20 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/world/1993346-justice-sotomayor-visits-puerto-rico-book-tour.html 2013-04-02T22:42:20Z http://www.mail.com/news/us/1990170-pattycake-gorilla-nycs-bronx-zoo-dies-40.html NEW YORK (AP) — Pattycake, the first gorilla born in New York City, has died at the Bronx Zoo. She was 40 years old and suffering from chronic cardiac problems. The Wildlife Conservation Society, which operates the zoo, made the announcement on Sunday and said a necropsy would be performed to determine the cause of death. It said Pattycake surpassed the m... Mon, 01 Apr 2013 14:28:43 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/us/1990170-pattycake-gorilla-nycs-bronx-zoo-dies-40.html 2013-04-01T14:28:43Z http://www.mail.com/news/us/1980370-federal-trial-window-nypd-practices.html NEW YORK (AP) — The right people at the right time in the right location. That phrase — repeated over and over in a secret recording of a police supervisor — is at the crux of a civil rights challenge to the New York Police Department's contentious tactic known as stop, question and frisk. "So, who are the right people?" asks officer P... Tue, 26 Mar 2013 20:34:10 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/us/1980370-federal-trial-window-nypd-practices.html 2013-03-26T20:34:10Z http://www.mail.com/news/us/1945432-nypd-program-patrols-inside-private-buildings.html NEW YORK (AP) — Jay Victorino was standing outside his mother's apartment when he was grabbed by police, and he says if she hadn't come downstairs to identify him he would've been arrested on a trespassing charge. That's because his mother's South Bronx building is one of thousands of private dwellings patrolled by the New York Police Department under a p... Mon, 11 Mar 2013 06:55:26 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/us/1945432-nypd-program-patrols-inside-private-buildings.html 2013-03-11T06:55:26Z http://www.mail.com/news/us/1922180-ny-dismemberment-defendant-dons-trash-bag-court.html NEW YORK (AP) — A man charged with killing and dismembering his mother and dumping her body parts in the trash appeared in court Thursday dressed in a garbage bag and said he'd done nothing wrong — even though detectives say they found a cellphone photo of him holding her severed head. Bahsid McLean, 23, was charged with murder, hindering prosecution and ... Fri, 01 Mar 2013 01:03:59 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/us/1922180-ny-dismemberment-defendant-dons-trash-bag-court.html 2013-03-01T01:03:59Z http://www.mail.com/entertainment/lifestyle/1881968-pinstripe-pedigree-bronx-bowser-joins-westminster.html NEW YORK (AP) — Ladies and gentlemen, now warming up in the Westminster dogpen, the Bronx Bowser. Meet sweet Mitch, a 5-year-old yellow Labrador retriever. He's a rookie at America's top dog show, yet he comes with a pinstripe pedigree — his co-owner is New York Yankees President Randy Levine. "He's like Derek Jeter. Very calm," Levine said. ... Sun, 10 Feb 2013 22:38:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/entertainment/lifestyle/1881968-pinstripe-pedigree-bronx-bowser-joins-westminster.html 2013-02-10T22:38:00Z http://www.mail.com/news/politics/1863698-legendary-nyc-mayor-koch-dies-monday-funeral-set.html NEW YORK (AP) — In 1977, New York City was deep into its worst fiscal crisis ever. Riots erupted that summer during a blackout. And a fire in one of the most blighted, bombed-out parts of town that fall led Howard Cosell to announce during a World Series game at Yankee Stadium: "Ladies and gentlemen, the Bronx is burning." Into that mess stepped Ed Koch a... Sat, 02 Feb 2013 07:22:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/politics/1863698-legendary-nyc-mayor-koch-dies-monday-funeral-set.html 2013-02-02T07:22:00Z http://www.mail.com/news/politics/1861444-koch-yorks-feisty-mayor-dies-88.html NEW YORK (AP) — When Ed Koch was mayor, it seemed as if all of New York was being run by a deli counterman. Koch was funny, irritable, opinionated, often rude and prone to yelling. And it worked, for a while at least. With a Bronx-born combination of chutzpah and humor, Koch steered New York back from the brink of financial ruin and infused the city with ... Sat, 02 Feb 2013 00:03:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/politics/1861444-koch-yorks-feisty-mayor-dies-88.html 2013-02-02T00:03:00Z http://www.mail.com/news/world/1838646-judge-nypd-resume-suspicion-less-stops.html NEW YORK (AP) — A federal judge let the New York Police Department on Tuesday temporarily resume stop-and-frisk stops she believes are unconstitutional while she decides what permanent remedies are necessary to prevent illegal stops at thousands of privately owned buildings. U.S. District Judge Shira Scheindlin in Manhattan lifted immediate implementation... Wed, 23 Jan 2013 00:51:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/world/1838646-judge-nypd-resume-suspicion-less-stops.html 2013-01-23T00:51:00Z http://www.mail.com/news/us/1814070-man-mauled-tiger-nyc-zoo-pleads-guilty.html A man who jumped into a tiger den at the Bronx Zoo and was mauled by a 400-pound animal told police, "Everyone makes choices," a court complaint says. David Villalobos, 25, of Mahopac, was arraigned Friday in a Bronx courthouse and pleaded not guilty to trespassing charges. On Sept. 21, Villalobos jumped from a monorail train that tours the zoo's Wild Asi... Fri, 11 Jan 2013 20:08:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/us/1814070-man-mauled-tiger-nyc-zoo-pleads-guilty.html 2013-01-11T20:08:00Z http://www.mail.com/scitech/health/1787280-grim-limbo-nycs-nursing-evacuees.html NEW YORK (AP) — Hundreds of elderly and disabled New Yorkers who were hurriedly evacuated from seaside nursing homes and assisted living residences after Superstorm Sandy are still in a grim limbo two months later, sleeping on cots in temporary quarters without such comforts as private bathrooms or even regular changes of clothes. Their plight can be seen... Wed, 26 Dec 2012 16:51:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/scitech/health/1787280-grim-limbo-nycs-nursing-evacuees.html 2012-12-26T16:51:00Z http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1767174-review-google-maps-boasts-big-improvements.html NEW YORK (AP) — Like a lot of people, I was happy and relieved to see Google Maps return to the iPhone. I'd been frustrated with the Apple mapping software that had replaced it three months ago. For one thing, it didn't have public transit directions, a feature important for New Yorkers like me. Apple's mapping app also wasn't as good as the old Google ap... Fri, 14 Dec 2012 17:23:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1767174-review-google-maps-boasts-big-improvements.html 2012-12-14T17:23:00Z http://www.mail.com/news/politics/1758632-nys-top-court-nyc-gang-member-terrorist.html ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — Street gangsters who commit assaults and killings are not terrorists under the statute enacted after hijackers crashed jets into the World Trade Center on Sept. 11, New York's highest court ruled unanimously Tuesday. There's no indication New York lawmakers passed the law to elevate gang-on-gang street violence to the status of terrori... Tue, 11 Dec 2012 16:33:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/politics/1758632-nys-top-court-nyc-gang-member-terrorist.html 2012-12-11T16:33:00Z http://www.mail.com/news/us/1751146-bus-driver-guilty-manslaughter-ny-crash.html NEW YORK (AP) — A tour bus driver who prosecutors said was all but asleep at the wheel was acquitted Friday of manslaughter and negligent homicide in a crash last year that killed 15 gamblers on their way from a Connecticut casino to New York City. Ophadell Williams was found guilty on one count of aggravated unlicensed driving. Williams wept and covered ... Fri, 07 Dec 2012 23:35:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/us/1751146-bus-driver-guilty-manslaughter-ny-crash.html 2012-12-07T23:35:00Z http://www.mail.com/news/politics/1749554-correction-bloomberg-clinton-mayoral-race-story.html NEW YORK (AP) — In a story Dec. 5 about next year's New York City mayoral race, The Associated Press reported erroneously that former Bronx Borough President Adolfo Carrion recently left the Democratic Party to become a Republican and was expected to run for mayor as a GOP candidate. Carrion left the Democratic Party but is now not affiliated with any party, and he may seek ... Thu, 06 Dec 2012 21:29:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/politics/1749554-correction-bloomberg-clinton-mayoral-race-story.html 2012-12-06T21:29:00Z