Manhattan Massage Parlors: After Eight Hours of Protests, Panel Votes to Close Schools
Police Commissioner Raymond W. Kelly promoted a Hispanic and an Asian to the highest rankings in Police Department history Tuesday. [Daily News]
A Queens mother burned her 3-year-old son in scalding water because the toddler soiled himself, the authorities said Tuesday. The woman, Regina Owens, 30, of Rockaway Park, held her son in a tub of hot water while he screamed in agony, said the Queens district attorney, Richard A. Brown. [New York Post]
Nearly 1,200 guns — handguns, semiautomatic weapons and sawed-off shotguns — were swapped for $200 each on Saturday as part of the latest gun buyback program run by the Police Department and the Bronx district attorney’s office. [Daily News]
A 46-year-old woman was stabbed to death on Tuesday night after a dispute in a Queens building, the police said. She was in an establishment that neighbors described as a foot-massage parlor, above a Chinese restaurant. [NYT]