Incredible secret subway predated NYC’s official subway by decades
On February 26, 1870, the elite of New York stepped into the basement of Devlin’s clothing store in Tribeca and descended into a secret, unauthorized tunnel — one City Hall ...
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A covert FBI agent smuggled $1B in cocaine to crush Colombian cartels — and lived to tell the tale
Martin Suarez returned from a morning run in his Puerto Rican gated community in August 1994 to an assassin emerging from the shadows, a Smith & Wesson revolver heavy in ...
How one brave woman escaped a polygamist cult — after 19 years of marriage and nine children
As a 15-year-old virginal bride, Pamela Jones found her new husband’s evasiveness concerning. When she mustered the courage to ask him, just seven days into their union, what was wrong, ...
One Baghdad afternoon — and its political aftermath — made Blackwater a household name and tarnished four Americans
On a scorching September 2007 Baghdad afternoon, a 19-man convoy of four armored Blackwater trucks rolled into Nisour Square, one of the city’s most congested and volatile intersections. What happened ...
Counseling a killer: My small-town beer buddy vented about his creepy teaching assistant all semester — it turned out to be Bryan Kohberger
John Snyder is a kindly older man who lives in my small town. He’s what you’d consider a normal person — a married homeowner who teaches at the local university. ...
A day with the FBI: My perp walk, handcuffs, strip search and leg irons for a politically motivated misdemeanor
It is an interesting thing to suddenly lose one’s freedom. It would be very interesting on this day, June 3, 2022. The first thing FBI agents do when they grab ...
Greedy landlords — not Bronx residents — were really to blame for the fires that ravaged NYC in the ’70s and ’80s: new book
In the early hours of an April morning in 1975, New York landlord Imre Oberlander and his associate, Yishai Webber, donned disguises — wigs and blackface — and set out ...
Rehab can keep you out of jail — but become a prison itself
Chris Koon didn’t read the fine print. Sitting in the Cenikor Baton Rouge rehab center’s intake office in 2015, flanked by his mom and grandmother, he signed where told. “A ...
Dad recalls horrific moment 10-year-old son was attacked by shark in Florida: ‘I heard the screaming’
It was a sunny August Saturday when Mary and Jameson Reeder took a boat nine miles out into Looe Key Reef with their four children, for a day of swimming ...
‘Batman’ actor Christian Bale and a nonprofit entrepreneur are giving foster kids homes and hope
“I’ve been so blessed in coming to America, what it has given me,” British “Batman” actor Christian Bale tells Key News Network. He knows plenty of others are far less ...
