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Teens on their way to school made a horrific discovery in a Long Island park: A human arm, that police say hadn’t been there very long before the kids found it. Later in the day, a leg and a second arm were found not far away in the same park. NBC New York’s Greg Cergol reports.

First, two children on their way to school found a human arm. Then the leg turned up.

Authorities are investigating the death of a 27-year-old woman found stabbed outside a residential complex in a typically quiet community about 30 miles from Manhattan. Prosecutors said Wednesday that Somerville police officers responding to a 911 call Tuesday night found the woman’s injury-riddled body outside a complex on North Bridge Street. She appeared to have been stabbed multiple times. Authorities…

The New Jersey man found guilty of killing a pregnant woman after he spent 90 minutes waiting outside her apartment for her to get home has been sentenced to life in prison. Donqua Thomas received his sentence on Thursday, a couple weeks after the third anniversary of the day he gunned down Remy Lee, a woman who officials say was…

A 44-year-old man was indicted in connection to the double murder of his sister-in-law and niece after the two were found axed to death in their homes in April, according to local prosecutors. A grand jury returned an 11-count indictment against Everoy L. Morrison Thursday for murder, unlawful possession of a weapon, possession of a weapon for unlawful purposes, credit…

The first arrest in the 1996 killing of Tupac Shakur had its roots in the investigation of the killing of Biggie Smalls.

The death of a woman at her home Windham, Vermont, in February has been ruled a homicide, Vermont State Police said Monday. Claudia Voight, 73, died at her home on Feb. 20. Investigators initially believed she died of a medical event, but an autopsy found she had injuries from strangulation, police said. A medical examiner found the woman’s “death was…

Hartford police have identified a couple who was found dead inside their apartment on Monday night and their deaths are being investigated as a murder-suicide. The police department said they were called to 70 Russ St., just a block south of the capitol, at about 7:15 p.m. for a wellbeing check. Responding officers found a man and woman, who police…

Police have arrested a man in connection with a shootout at a Hartford apartment that left one dead and three people, including a teenager, in critical condition. They believe the shooting happened as a result of an attempted robbery, and that gunfire was exchanged between the suspects and someone in the apartment. It happened just after 3:30 p.m. inside an…

Police in the Bronx are investigating the discovery of a decomposing woman found Friday in a beige storage bin discarded steps away from a community garden. The gruesome find came the same day police say a woman was found naked inside the trash compactor room of an East Harlem apartment building. Right now, investigators do not believe the cases are…

Two women turned up dead Friday in two different New York City neighborhoods. One of the victims was found completely naked next to a trash compactor, the other stuffed in a bin near a Bronx garden. News 4’s Melissa Colorado reports.

News 4’s Pei-Sze Cheng reports.

A 22-year-old Bronx man was stabbed to death by a Long Island homeowner who caught him and two others trying to steal the wheel rims and tires from the SUV parked in his driveway, authorities say. According to police, Jacob Alvarenga Mejia was at his Jericho Turnpike home in Bellerose Village on Saturday, May 13, when he noticed three people…

Dallas Police are investigating the murder of a woman, which her family believes was out of revenge for getting an abortion.

A double homicide is under investigation in New Jersey, the Union County prosecutor’s office confirmed Thursday — and relatives of the victims say they include a 9-year-old girl and her mother.

Unsolved murders in a Long Island community are getting a boost of attention this week — and an extra cash reward — as part of a national week highlighting victims of violent crimes. The head of the Suffolk County Police Department announced the $5,000 cash reward for five separate cases in hopes of gaining renewed attention during National Crime Victims’…

Families in Suffolk County are pleading with the public to help find the people responsible for the deaths in five separate unsolved cases.

A 62-year-old woman died and her 41-year-old son was wounded after the latter tried to intervene in a possible murder-suicide attempt at the family’s Staten Island home over the weekend, a senior law enforcement official says. According to investigators, NYPD officers responding to a Blythe Place home in Richmondtown shortly after 10 p.m. Sunday for a report of an...

A New Jersey mother and daughter killed in their own home by an ax. Brian Thompson reports.

A 34-year-old Bronx man was arrested on a bevy of charges when two children — a 14-year-old girl and a 13-year-old boy — were found badly bruised inside his apartment earlier this week, authorities say, after they were allegedly held captive for months while being starved and even pistol whipped. The circumstances of the case, which unfolded at the Eastchester…