M.L. Nestel

1 month ago | nysun.com | M.L. Nestel

Since its inception in the 1830s, the Sun has chronicled crime in the mean streets of the City that Never Sleeps, and to this day, the police blotter – or its digital equivalent – offers fascinating snapshots into lives gone wrong in the myriad neighborhoods of the five boroughs. Our aim here is to chronicle the more curious criminal incidents across New York City that, with local news coverage in retreat, may not otherwise come under a spotlight.

2 months ago | nysun.com | M.L. Nestel

The Sun has chronicled crime in New York City’s mean streets since its birth in the 1830s, and to this day, the police blotter – now in digital form – gives snapshots like no other into lives gone wrong in the five boroughs’ myriad neighborhoods. Here we chronicle the more curious criminal incidents across New York City that, with local news coverage in retreat, may not otherwise come under a spotlight.

Nov 22, 2024 | nysun.com | M.L. Nestel

A series of savage slashings  ‚ÄĒ three of them fatal ‚ÄĒ have sent shivers through Manhattan this week. A Wednesday morning stroll along a posh Upper West Side sidewalk proved near deadly for a tourist in town from Denmark. The 55-year-old man who is a retired professional soccer player, and whom the Sun is not naming, had been walking at around 10:30 a.m. when he was met by a stranger dressed in a gray T-shirt, dark shorts and wielding a blade.

Jul 3, 2024 | rawstory.com | M.L. Nestel

Stormy Daniels is ducking nonstop death threats and facing financial ruin ever since she testified in Donald Trump's hush money case. Daniels spoke with MSNBC's Rachel Maddow in an interview that aired Tuesday night, detailing harassment and dire financial struggles she faces due to the case. It was her first TV interview since the former president became a convicted felon on all 34 counts of falsifying business records in his historic hush money trial.

Jul 2, 2024 | rawstory.com | M.L. Nestel

The ink barely dried on the Supreme Court's immunity ruling before Donald Trump's lawyers filed papers to compel New York Judge Juan Merchan to sideline his hush money trial guilty verdict and push back his sentencing. And he did. Merchan scratched the July 11 date in favor of a new date, Sept.