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Dorothy Smith, 86, returned home after disappearing Thursday afternoon, police said.

The attempted sexual assault of a 12-year-old girl comes after two attacks on young girls in Chinatown this summer.

A man was found tied up inside the trunk of a BMW in Inwood after the driver of the car smashed into a taxi.

The NYPD released video of a man wanted on the Lower East Side.

A man was found dead on St. Nicholas Avenue, near West 188th Street, Friday night, according to police.

Gregory Willis, Jr., 17, was last seen leaving his house on Jan. 19th.

The men have struck three times and assaulted employees in two of the incidents, police said.

A Mott Street resident was shot once in the head last Friday in the Greenpoint neighborhood of Brooklyn, police said.

Police have seen a rise in thefts of purses and handbags at popular bars in the East Village with bouncers acting as lookouts.

Two men named Irving Walker have been accused of the same crime spree, but only one of them was charged.

Eugene Corcoran worked for 30 years in law enforcement before joining the Buildings Department last spring.

Police will be searching pocketbooks and deploying thousands of officers throughout Times Square.

The bomb squad found an inert grenade inside an apartment on Norfolk Street but said it was non-threatening.

The suspect is seen on security video dragging the suitcase down E. 114th Street with the body apparently inside.

The suspect made off with an unknown amount of cash after telling workers he had a gun, police said.