In the wake of Tessa Majors’ death, Barnard College and Columbia University faculty have reported receiving “abhorrent and viciously racist” robocall messages from a white supremacist organization. In a message on the school’s website, Columbia said it is working with New York City police to block the racist messages that came after the 18-year-old college freshman was stabbed and...

The teenager wanted for questioning in the Manhattan park murder of Barnard College freshman Tessa Majors has been found, questioned and released, authorities said in a tweet Thursday. A photo tweeted out by police with the announcement matches an image of a 14-year-old boy authorities had released earlier in the investigation in their quest to question him. Calling the apprehension…

Police have released photos of one of the teens wanted for questioning in connection with the stabbing death of a Barnard College student. Because of the child’s age, police are not releasing his name, but they have been looking to speak with him since Majors was stabbed to death. As of Friday, investigators are not calling the 14-year-old a...

Police say they are talking to family and friends of a 14-year-old wanted for questioning in the murder of Tessa Majors but disputed reports that the teen took off running when he was about to go in for questioning. “He didn’t jump out of a cab while attempting to turn himself in,” NYPD Chief of Detectives Rodney Harrison told...

The slaying of a Barnard College student has led to new security provisions at Manhattan’s Morningside Park, Columbia University announced Tuesday. The college said that guard booths outside the park will now be staffed 24/7 and the evening public safety shuttle will be extended. Those decisions come in the wake of the stabbing death of 18-year-old Tessa Majors, who was…

The family of Tessa Majors, the Barnard College freshman brutally stabbed to death, allegedly by a group of teenage attackers during a robbery in a Manhattan park, issued a searing rebuke Monday of the police union president’s radio comment a day earlier that she was in the park to buy pot.

After charging a teenager in the stabbing death of a Barnard College student, detectives in court described some of the victim’s final moments as she fought off a group of attackers during an alleged robbery. New information in the investigation showed that 18-year-old Tessa Majors was in Morningside Park just before 7 p.m. Wednesday when she was a victim...

UPDATE: Teen Arrested in Barnard Freshman’s Stabbing Death The park where 18-year-old Tessa Majors was stabbed to death in a brutal robbery is also where most robberies were reported this year among all New York City parks, according to the police department crime statistics. There’s a growing memorial for Majors at Morningside Park and the crime scene is still...

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Police say they’re investigating a possible anti-gay bias crime after pride flags were set on fire at the entrance of a gay bar in Harlem.

Scott Timmins was arrested for breaking into a San Antonio home late Sunday night

Youssef Wardani, the father of Cypress Bay High School student Deyab-Houssein Wardani, claims teacher Maria Valdes called his son a “rag head Taliban.”

North Carolina grade school teacher Barry White Jr. greets each member of his 5th grade class with a personalized handshake every morning. Video of White delivering these handshakes went viral earlier this year. Today, the teacher had another surprise for his students when Harlem Globetrotter Zeus McClurkin showed up to deliver the handshakes. McClurkin has played with the Harlem Globetrotters…

He’s been a rapper, actor, singer, entrepreneur, record producer and clothing designer. Now Sean “Diddy” Combs has taken on a new job as the founder of a charter school in New York City’s Harlem neighborhood.

“Late Night” host Seth Meyers explains popular teen slang including “thirst trap” and “chapstick.”

It may be Puff Daddy’s birthday, but the music mogul is giving out the gifts: The rapper is planning to release free music on Wednesday. Puff Daddy, born Sean Combs, debuted new music late Tuesday in New York City and announced that a mixtape called “MMM” would be available for free at 7 a.m. Eastern.