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UPDATE Two Former NYPD Cops Sentenced after Pleading Guilty to Sex Abuse of Intoxicated Woman

By SÍLE MOLONEY
Bronx District Attorney Darcel D. Clark announced Monday, Jan. 12, that two former NYPD officers were sentenced in the sexual abuse of an intoxicated woman on Friday, Jan. 9, at Bronx Criminal Court, with one of the defendants required to register as a sex offender and both sentenced to probation and sex offender treatment programs as part of the plea agreement. The sentences imposes equated to those negotiated between the prosecution and the defense under the terms of a plea deal.

NYC North Central Bronx & Jacobi Medical Center Welcome First Babies of the New Year

By SÍLE MOLONEY
At 12:58 a.m. on New Year’s Day, Jan. 1, Norwood’s North Central Bronx Hospital welcomed its first baby of the year delivered at the hospital, Ridhaan Mollik. Ridhaan weighed in at 6 pounds 9.5 ounces, and is 20.1 inches long, according to hospital officials, who said the baby boy is the first child of Sornaly Kor Aky.

Morris Heights: Three Sought for Armed Robbery

By SÍLE MOLONEY
The NYPD is asking for the public’s help identifying the three people seen in the attached photos who they say are wanted in connection with a gunpoint robbery that occurred in December 2025 in the Morris Heights section of The Bronx.

Council Passes Street Vending Bill Package, Adams Vetoes Bills

By SÍLE MOLONEY
Though the street vendor movement made history on Thursday, Dec. 18, with a supermajority (39/51) of the City Council voting “aye” to pass bills 431-B, 408, and 1251 after years of advocacy and with what was described as a broad coalition of support, former Mayor Eric Adams vetoed the bills, along with around 16 others, on the last day of his term on Dec. 31.