By Beth Sarafraz
Freelance Reporter

SUNSET PARK – Except for a few episodes of vandalism and rowdy-youth issues over the years, Bay Ridge, where 68th Precinct Deputy Inspector Eric Rodriguez recently reported a dramatic 23 percent dip in crime this year, has escaped the gang turf wars of nearby Sunset Park.

Bay Ridge mainly deals with bar noise and occasional unruly teens, but that’s nor the case in Sunset Park.

That neighborhood has been a spike in gang-related homicides. {read more...}

Breazil, 45, was convicted last month at his retrial of a 1995 {read more...}

New York City’s Deputy Chief Administrative Judge Fern Fisher says 11 lawyers trained in housing law will represent low to moderate income {read more...}

Police and prosecutors say the arrests are the result of five {read more...}

MILAN (AP) — In a decade-long journey, the Tunisian went from drug pusher on the streets of Milan, to Islamic militant trained in Afghanistan to kill Americans, to potential key witness against Guantanamo Bay {read more...}

By Ryan Thompson
Brooklyn Daily Eagle

JAY STREET — For the first time, the festive Judiciary Night celebration was held within the walls of the courthouse.

This year’s Judiciary Night, sponsored by the Brooklyn Women’s Bar Association, was held inside the Kings County Supreme Court Criminal Term courthouse on Jay Street in Downtown Brooklyn. The Brooklyn Women’s Bar traditionally hosts the annual event at the bar association as a way of welcoming in the {read more...}

JAY STREET — The so-called “teardrop robber� accused of robbing two Red Hook bars in broad daylight was convicted in Brooklyn Supreme Court of one robbery, but acquitted of another, more violent robbery. Luis Rodriguez, 28, of {read more...}

Police officers working with the Manhattan district attorney’s office {read more...}

MANHATTAN — Three noted alumni of Brooklyn Law School were honored at the school’s annual luncheon last week, including prominent jurist John M. Leventhal, a justice of the Appellate Division, Second Department.

It was a gala event at the Plaza Hotel on Fifth Avenue in Manhattan, attended by almost 300 successful attorneys, judges, teachers and other legal eagles who studied at Brooklyn Law School (BLS).

“BLS graduates have had such a positive impact on my professional life,� Leventhal {read more...}

By Samuel Newhouse
Brooklyn Daily Eagle

SCHERMERHORN STREET — City Council Member Charles Barron was convicted Monday of disorderly conduct for his role in Sean Bell-related protests, despite a year-long battle to have the charges dropped.

The Brooklyn District Attorney’s Office charged Barron with disorderly conduct for disrupting traffic in May 2008 while leading crowds in protest of the acquittal of three police officers connected to the shooting death of 23-year-old Sean Bell {read more...}

Celestino Orta, 40, had originally pleaded guilty to the bribery charge last year, but withdrew his plea in {read more...}

By Harold Egeln
Brooklyn Daily Eagle

BAY RIDGE – Led by a high-school student, the Brooklyn Republican Party and its leaders held a rally against the healthcare reform bill passed in the House, denouncing it as “socialism� and calling upon the Senate to pass a measure more akin to GOP liking.

After reading foreign headlines indicating discontent with European and Canadian national health care systems and quoting warnings about socialism, a student who would identified himself only as Robert {read more...}