
Roni Jacobson
Science Journalist at Freelance
Pretty much a modern-day cowboy. Articles @thedailybeast, @thescienceofus, @TeenVogue, @CNBC.com, @sciam, @nytimes, @WIRED++
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nydailynews.com | Roni Jacobson |Rocco Parascandola
Police arrested a man they say stabbed his own dog after playful roughhousing turned into real bloodshed for both man and beast. Akeem Noray, 34, was play fighting with his dog — a pit bull mix named Bowser — in the southeast corner of Prospect Park around 7 p.m. on Wednesday when the dog started biting him in the face and hands, cops said. Noray then stabbed the dog two times in the neck and the chest, according to police.
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nydailynews.com | John Annese |Roni Jacobson
The man who tragically lost his life after a waste-water treatment boat exploded on the Hudson River has been identified as Chief Marine Diesel Engineer Raymond Feige, Department of Environmental Protection officials announced Sunday. Feige, 59, died Saturday morning after an explosion on the DEP-owned vessel which he was working on, cops said. The vessel, named the Hunts Point, was undergoing maintenance and docked next to the North River Wastewater Resource Recovery Facility near W.
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yahoo.com | Julian Roberts-Grmela |Roni Jacobson |John Annese
The man who tragically lost his life after a waste-water treatment boat exploded on the Hudson River has been identified as Chief Marine Diesel Engineer Raymond Feige, Department of Environmental Protection city officials announced Sunday. Feige, 59, died Saturday morning after an explosion on the DEP-owned vessel which he was working on, cops said. The vessel, named the Hunts Point, was undergoing maintenance and docked next to the North River Wastewater Resource Recovery Facility near W.
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yahoo.com | Roni Jacobson
Police are on the hunt, and asking for the public’s help, in capturing a suspect wanted for beating up an off-duty NYPD officer and stealing his gun as he returned to his Bronx home, cops said Sunday. The 27-year-old officer was coming home from work wearing a civilian jacket over his uniform when two suspects ran up to him, threatened him with a knife and beat him unconscious — breaking his orbital bone — around 4:12 a.m. Saturday at St. Peters and Tratman Aves.
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gazettextra.com | Rebecca White |Roni Jacobson |Thomas Tracy
NEW YORK - The 37-year-old Crypto trader accused of kidnapping a 28-year-old Italian man inside a luxurious SoHo apartment repeatedly shocked his victim with electric wires, held him upside down from the top of a staircase, cut his leg with a saw and threatened to kill the victim's family - all to get the password to the man's Bitcoin account, prosecutors said Saturday.
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