Browse past news stories for Group Home in Brooklyn, NY.

• 525 Clinton: From Construction Fatality to Stalled Development (WNYC New York Public Radio)
  posted on November 24, 2009 at 12:19:24 am
  In November 2008, WNYC aired a two-part report called "The Cost of Doing Business." It was an in-depth look at a construction accident that took the life of Mexican immigrant Jose Palacios. Palacio....
• Paramedic: Cops abuse law to detain people (Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune)
  posted on November 20, 2009 at 04:32:15 am
  Nate Berg alleges cops are misusing "emergency hold"; rules; hospital and police say his claims have no merit.
• b2.cr.obits.1114 (The Register-Guard)
  posted on November 14, 2009 at 08:39:35 am
  Bradley Grimes Bradley Leo Grimes of Eugene died Nov. 9 at age 60. His family chose not to list the cause of death. No service is planned. He was born Aug. 24, 1949, in Portland, to Everett and Dorothy Carr Grimes. He was disabled, and lived in the Dungarvin Group …
• Jewish refugees who returned to Nazi Germany as U.S. soldiers during World War II are profiled in new book (Chicago Tribune)
  posted on November 8, 2009 at 02:02:31 pm
  'The Enemy I Knew' documents a largely untold story When Walter Reed speaks to schoolchildren on Veterans Day or in a Holocaust studies class, he leaves them with a moral of his life story.
• Charges Dropped Against G-20 "Twitterists," NYC Probe Continues (Gothamist)
  posted on November 4, 2009 at 03:34:16 pm
  On Monday, the Allegheny County District Attorney dropped all charges against two Jackson Heights-based anarchists accused of listening to police scanners and sharing riot cops' movements with demonstrators on Twitter during the G-20 summit in Pittsburgh. Elliot Madison and Michael Wallschlaeger were arrested on September 24th in a Pittsburgh hotel room, where they were found sitting in front of ...
• Police Blotter (The Villager)
  posted on October 22, 2009 at 03:45:12 pm
  Sex-attack arrest Police arrested Jose Marrero, 32, of Brooklyn on Wed., Oct. 14, in connection with the sexual assault on a woman as she entered her building on Varick St. near Broome St. The suspect followed the victim, 23, for three blocks and made suggestive remarks as she was walking home, according to reports.
• SHERIFF's PATROL LOG: Victim hit after 12 gunshots fired into home (The Salinas Californian)
  posted on October 20, 2009 at 01:41:22 pm
  Date of Report: 10/19/2009 Time of Report: 20:39 Deputy Name: Dominguez, Gustavo Report Number: 07742-09 Charges: 664-187 PC 246 PC Suspect Arrested Y/N: No Arrestee: None Location: 16000 Blk El Rancho Way Salinas, Ca 93906 Synopsis: Monterey County Sheriff Deputies were dispatched to the 16000 block of El Rancho Way in regards to gun shot heard in the area.
• Riding High Farm celebrates 30 years (Examiner)
  posted on October 8, 2009 at 01:29:16 am
  It's been 30 years since a Brooklyn couple and their family moved to Upper Freehold and started a horseback-riding center for people with disabilities. Since that time, thousands of students have learned to ride and received therapy in the Handicapped High Riders Club at Riding High Farm on Route 526.
• Look for Volkswagen swarm at Wickham Park (The Bay Bulletin)
  posted on October 7, 2009 at 06:14:01 pm
  It's love bug season again, as the Volkswagens swarm Wickham Park this weekend during Volkstoberfest 11. Even if you've never been bitten by Beetle fever, Volkstoberfest is a fun -- and free -- event with enough to do to keep everyone in the family happy.
• New York Red Bulls Weekly Update (OurSports Central)
  posted on September 28, 2009 at 06:43:48 pm
  BULLS LOOK TO RUMBLE THE 'QUAKES: The New York Red Bulls continue a three-game road swing on Saturday, when they travel to California for the second-straight week to take on the San Jose Earthquakes at Buck Shaw Stadium at 11:00 PM ET (TV: FSC, FSE; Radio: WADO 1280 AM).
• Soccer stars to teach game strategies, compete in exhibitions and play with juveniles in detention (OurSports Central)
  posted on September 22, 2009 at 09:29:33 pm
  NEW YORK - (September 22, 2009) - On Wednesday, September 30th, more than 100 kids from Horizon Juvenile Center in The Bronx will face off against members of the New York Red Bulls soccer team in a professional soccer clinic held annually for young people in detention.
• ACORN undercover videos on Internet (San Bernardino Sun)
  posted on September 17, 2009 at 04:31:43 am
  Undercover videos shot at four ACORN offices, including one in San Bernardino, show ACORN employees apparently offering advice on how finance a political campaign with brothel earnings.
• It's a mad, mad world (New York Post)
  posted on September 13, 2009 at 10:40:53 am
  Federal Judge Nicholas Garaufis of Brooklyn issued a ruling this week that, although well-intentioned, will ultimately mean disaster for New Yorkers. In response to a lawsuit brought by Albany group Disability Advocates, the judge ruled that the stat...
• Luis Catana Jr. finds stability in Bed-Stuy group home before college (New York Daily News)
  posted on August 18, 2009 at 01:07:09 am
  Luis Catana Jr. leaves for Sullivan County Community College on Monday. The former Morris HS pitcher will be living about 100 miles from home, playing baseball and studying at the two-year college near the Catskills.
• NY1 For You: Family Says Group Home Mistreated Their Autistic Son (NY1 News)
  posted on August 13, 2009 at 08:37:12 pm
  State-sponsored programs can provide full-time professional care for autistic members of low-income families, but one family told NY1 For You that a Brooklyn facility was not providing their son with the care he needed. NY1's Anthony Pascale filed the following report.
• Group home has locals up in arms (YourNabe.com)
  posted on August 6, 2009 at 01:45:18 pm
  Angry residents shocked last week to find out that their new neighbors at 800 East 12th Street are formerly homeless men and women in transition are now demanding answers from the agency charged with monitoring them.
• U.S. citizens wrongly detained, deported by ICE (San Francisco Chronicle)
  posted on July 27, 2009 at 10:40:05 pm
  The son of a decorated Vietnam veteran, Hector Veloz is a U.S. citizen, but in 2007 immigration officials mistook him for an illegal immigrant and locked him in an Arizona prison for 13 months. Veloz had to prove his citizenship from behind bars. An aunt...
• US Citizens Wrongly Detained, Deported by ICE (CommonDreams.org)
  posted on July 27, 2009 at 01:36:34 pm
  by Tyche Hendricks The son of a decorated Vietnam veteran, Hector Veloz is a U.S. citizen, but in 2007 immigration officials mistook him for an illegal immigrant and locked him in an Arizona prison for 13 months. Veloz had to prove his citizenship from behind bars. An aunt helped him track down his father's birth certificate and his own, his parents' marriage certificate, his father's school, ...
• U.S. citizens tell of ICE lockup, deportations (San Francisco Chronicle)
  posted on July 27, 2009 at 02:55:06 am
  When Brian Lyttle got word on April 22 from the U.S. Embassy in Guatemala that his brother Mark had been deported to Mexico and bumped around Central America for three months, he was floored. The family had been searching for 31-year-old Mark and feared he...
• Man, 47, dies a year after Minneapolis bike accident (Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune)
  posted on July 21, 2009 at 12:23:24 am
  A 47-year-old man has died nearly a year after he was injured in Minneapolis in a bicycle accident, the Hennepin County medical examiner's office said Monday.
• Missing Russell Gardens man found in Brooklyn (Newsday)
  posted on July 8, 2009 at 11:40:39 am
  A mentally handicapped man who went missing from a group home in Russell Gardens on June 29 was found late Tuesday in Brooklyn.
• Clarkstown special-needs student beats odds on his way to college (The Journal News)
  posted on July 2, 2009 at 06:44:50 am
  Few people who knew Antoine McGill when he was a youngster would have given him a better-than-even chance to escape the New York City foster care system without being incarcerated or killed.
• Sun Messenger Police Blotter: Man finds robbing eatery 'waaaay better' than working there (The Sun Messenger)
  posted on June 25, 2009 at 08:06:15 pm
  MAYFIELD HEIGHTS AGGRAVATED ROBBERY, SOM CENTER ROAD: Two men wearing hoodies robbed Wendy's just after 9 a.m. Saturday, then ran out and jumped the wall in the rear, heading toward Arbor Court. Employees recognized the voice of one of...
• NYPD DAILY BLOTTER (New York Post)
  posted on June 22, 2009 at 10:43:17 am
  Bronx Police yesterday were searching for this elderly man (above), who wandered away from his Bronxdale apartment. David Koster, 77, who suffers from Alzheimer's, was last seen in his apartment on Cruger Avenue and Pelham Parkway South at 7 p.m...
• H1N1 Virus Hits Prison, NYC Schools (R News)
  posted on May 16, 2009 at 03:55:22 pm
  An inmate at Rikers Island in New York City is ill with H1N1 virus. City Correction Department spokesman Stephen Morello says his condition is not serious.
• Sponsored by: (The Journal News)
  posted on May 6, 2009 at 01:36:07 pm
  Putnam's longest road, Peekskill Hollow Road, is set for an $8 million, nearly 3-mile renovation that is not as much as county officials had wanted and far more than many local residents can accept.
• Lawsuit: N.Y. failed to protect disabled kids (MSNBC)
  posted on May 1, 2009 at 02:41:17 am
  A lawsuit claims New York City failed to properly screen a woman who used fictitious identities to adopt 10 disabled children and later abused, starved and imprisoned them.
• Of Interest: April 30, 2009 (Plattsburgh Press Republican)
  posted on April 30, 2009 at 07:40:33 am
  School Board votes on Fairchild tonight PLATTSBURGH — The Plattsburgh City School Board will hold a special meeting at 7 tonight at the Duken Building.
• Up against the odds (Evansville Courier & Press)
  posted on March 31, 2009 at 04:51:07 am
  Thousands of children and adults are helped every by the Easter Seals Rehabilitation Center and donations fund a large portion of those services.
• A Unique Collaboration for LGBT Life Skills (Gay City News)
  posted on March 29, 2009 at 01:59:32 am
  Shakia Lassiter (right) is working to finish up a two-year cosmetology program by the end of the year. Ronald Killens arrived at the Gramercy residence a month ago, eager to learn more about writing and cooking.