Janon Fisher

4 days ago | newsday.com | Janon Fisher

An afternoon fire wiped out the interior of St. Edmund Church in Breezy Point, Queens Saturday, the day before Easter Mass, forcing parishioners to find another place to worship on one of the holiest days of the Catholic calendar. "It caused significant damage," John Quaglione, a spokesman for the Brooklyn Diocese, said. "The services were set up for Easter Mass, the pews, the altar, everything inside has been burned.

6 days ago | newsday.com | Janon Fisher

Luigi Mangione, the Maryland man accused of gunning down a UnitedHealthcare executive outside a Manhattan hotel last December, was indicted Thursday on at least one charge that makes him eligible for the death penalty. His lawyer did not immediately respond to calls and messages seeking comment. The Manhattan U.S. Attorney’s office could not say when he would be arraigned on the indictment. Mangione, 26, an Ivy League graduate from a prominent Maryland family, was arrested on Dec.

1 week ago | newsday.com | Janon Fisher

Three Cedarhurst jewelers — all brothers — charged with 12 counts of kidnapping, assault and robbery saw their case dropped earlier this month after a grand jury refused to indict them, court records show. Jacob Avital, 41, the oldest brother, who ran 5 Towns Jewelry Buyers on Willow Avenue, vowed on Monday that the criminal case may be over, but a civil case is soon to come.

1 week ago | newsday.com | Janon Fisher

An employee at a Northwell health sleep clinic in Manhasset allegedly spied on adults and children in bathrooms using a hidden camera, and destroyed the video evidence after learning police considered him the prime suspect, the Nassau County District Attorney's Office said Wednesday. Sanjai Syamaprasad, 47, of Brooklyn, pleaded not guilty at his arraignment Wednesday in Nassau County Court to five counts of unlawful surveillance and tampering with evidence.

1 week ago | newsday.com | Janon Fisher

A Hempstead man with a lengthy criminal history called a Suffolk County judge "the devil" on Wednesday after being sentenced to 25 years behind bars for stabbing the owner of an Amityville funeral parlor during a robbery. At an afternoon sentencing hearing, Jason Funderburke, 39, who is bipolar, according to his lawyer, mounted multiple objections to Supreme Court Justice Timothy Mazzei, prompting the judge to have him temporarily taken out of the courtroom.