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  • Investigation into crane accidents
  • Two difference crane companies are involved in Monday's mishap and both have had problems in the past.
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crane accident, investigations, jim hoffer
  • port authority passports
  • Losing your passport can be a travel nightmare, but imagine if the person who found it was ordered to throw it out?
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port authority, investigations
  • NYPD Detectives showed up Thursday morning at a building on East 38th street where a man had launched a small drone.
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east side, faa, nypd, investigations, jim hoffer
  • Exclusive: Businessman says drone nearly crashed into him
  • Eyewitness News has obtained video of a small helicopter drone flying high above buildings on the East side of Manhattan that crash landed just feet away from a businessman during the Monday evening rush hour.
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drone, new york city news, new york news, new york city, investigations, jim hoffer
  • bronx fire policy
  • The FDNY is amending their search policy to ensure speedier demolition of vacant buildings after a fire.
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bronx news, fire, fire death, firefighters, fdny, investigations, jim hoffer
  • tree trimming cutbacks
  • The seeds of tragedies involving falling trees may have been planted when the city slashed funding for tree maintenance.
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new york city, investigations, jim hoffer
  • machine gun found at jfk airport
  • The discovery of a machine gun at one of JFK's largest terminals is raising a lot of questions at this hour. Of chief concern is whose gun is it and how did it get past security?
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investigations, jim hoffer
  • the investigators
  • Al-Shabab, means "youth" and the terrorist group has been successful in recruiting young Somali American men to train and perhaps, in the case of Nairobi, carry out attacks in Africa.
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investigations, jim hoffer
  • Eyewitness News investigates balcony safety in NYC
  • When Jennifer Rosoff fell 17 stories from her balcony, it was long past due for a safety inspection.
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investigations, jim hoffer
  • Man hit by bus continues court battle 10 years later
  • For ten years, an entire decade, Claude Williams has been battling the Transit Authority in court.
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new york city, investigations, jim hoffer
  • the investigators
  • Their job is to get bad guys off the street and they have more work than they can handle. Investigative Reporter Sarah Wallace rode along with the Newark police department's fugitive squad.
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investigations, sarah wallace
  • 60-year-old Marla Krolikowski, formerly known as Mark, was fired after 32 years in October, 2012 as a teacher at St. Francis Catholic high school in Queens. She claims it was because she declared she is transgender, that the then vice principal called her worse than gay.
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investigations, sarah wallace
  • Women claim judge in NJ descriminated against them
  • A group of women who say they've been discriminated against by a judge in Monmouth County, New Jersey are now trying to get him impeached. They've filed a petition with the state assembly to have the judge removed.
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investigations, sarah wallace
  • An angry confrontation between a New Jersey State trooper and local police officers was all caught on camera.
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police, investigations, sarah wallace
  • large brawl at rikers island
  • In response to a bloody gang fight inside Rikers Island, jail guards will receive extra training.
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rikers island, investigations, sarah wallace
  • large brawl at rikers island
  • Inmates can be seen fighting with mop sticks and chairs and even a knife for more than an hour.
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rikers island, investigations, sarah wallace
  • landing
  • There is new exclusive video of that Southwest Airlines hard landing at La Guardia Airport where the nose gear collapsed.
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emergency landing, laguardia airport, investigations, jim hoffer
  • The Mayor's office says the delays are a fabrication by the unions that are resistant to change. Yet, two families recently contacted us convinced it took too long to dispatch an ambulance to their dying sons.
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investigations, jim hoffer
  • bus driver lewd act
  • She says she was appalled and recorded it in case nobody believed what she witnessed.
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bus, sex crime, sex, new jersey transit, investigations, sarah wallace
  • southwest plane nose gear accident laguardia
  • The National Transportation Safety Board is trying to figure out why the landing gear collapsed in what appeared to be a normal landing.
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laguardia airport, emergency landing, ntsb, investigations, jim hoffer
  • There are new questions about those ongoing delays in New York City's emergency 911 system.
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queens, investigations, sarah wallace
  • With the rescue phase of the accident over, it is time to focus attention on what went wrong.
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emergency landing, laguardia airport, investigations, jim hoffer
  • lich patient
  • A nurse claims a critically ill patient died after she was transferred to SUNY Downstate.
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investigations, sarah wallace
  • ems delay
  • The elderly woman had fallen down the stairs, fractured her skull, and injured her spine.
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new jersey, investigations, jim hoffer
  • 911 investigation
  • Our investigation reveals there have been problems with at least 150 emergency calls to 911 in the last five weeks.
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investigations, jim hoffer
  • san francisco plane crash
  • The Glide slope that usually helps pilots land at the right speed and angle, wasn't working at the San Francisco Airport.
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plane crash, california, investigations, jim hoffer
  • One of the attacks happened on Manhattan's Lower East Side, the other two happened in the Bronx.
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new york city, bus, investigations, jim hoffer
  • mom kids
  • A Queens mother was reunited with her children taken away from her after she was hit with false drug charges.
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drug arrest, wrongly accused, investigations, sarah wallace
  • new rochelle shooting
  • There are claims of excessive force by the family of a man fatally shot by police in Westchester County.
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new rochelle, westchester county, police shooting, investigations, jim hoffer
  • LIRR rep
  • The Long Island Railroad is back on track, but it's not been a good week for the railroad or its passengers.
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investigations, jim hoffer
  • jfk whistle blower
  • A man claimes he was fired from his job because he videotaped security guards sleeping on the job at Kennedy Airport.
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jfk international airport, investigations, sarah wallace
  • mom false arrest
  • A hard-working single-mother from Queens is suing the city for $50 million dollars, claiming she was falsely arrested on drug charges.
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investigations, sarah wallace
  • hospital death
  • A 77-year-old woman was given the wrong medication at a New York City hospital, and it killed her. It's all in an autopsy obtained by the Eyewitness News Investigators.
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investigations, sarah wallace
  • the investigators
  • There are serious questions about the new 911dispatch system in New York City.
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firefighters, nypd, investigations, jim hoffer
  • closed bridge
  • As the Eyewitness News Investigators reported in April, a bridge in Queens is so riddled with cracks, the city has kept it closed to traffic.
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investigations, jim hoffer
  • 46-year old Mikhail Chernyaev was arraigned Sunday in Brooklyn on charges of murdering Florida businessman Charles Butler.
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charles butler, missing person, investigations
  • green card scam
  • New information on a story you saw only on Eyewitness News after we were the first to expose a woman accused of ripping off $18,000 from an immigrant.
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scams, investigations, sarah wallace
  • could bridge collapse happen in our area?
  • A bridge collapse in Washington State is putting new focus on the condition of bridges throughout the country.
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tappan zee bridge, investigations, jim hoffer
  • smartphone evidence
  • It's exclusive look inside the brave new world of cyber-cops. Technology is revolutionizing how police catch criminals. Cell phones are now the new DNA fingerprint.
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investigations, sarah wallace
  • roosevelt island police
  • Some young, minority males living on Roosevelt Island say they're being targeted for doing nothing wrong by the very people who are supposed to protect them.
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investigations, jim hoffer
  • green card scam
  • An Eyewitness News Investigation has revealed the sale of phony government identification cards to immigrants for thousands of dollars, and the alleged scammer has been in trouble for doing the same thing before.
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scams, investigations, sarah wallace
  • family searches for clues in missing man case
  • Florida Businessman Charles Butler always dreamed of returning to live in the city where he was born, but 7 months ago he vanished without a trace.
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charles butler, missing person, investigations, jim hoffer
  • port authority
  • Some workers at the Port Authority say when they blew the whistle on their supervisor for stealing, they were hit with disciplinary violations.
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port authority, investigations, jim hoffer
  • most watned: new jersey state police
  • New Jersey State Police release updated photos of most wanted fugitives in New Jersey.
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investigations
  • The unprecedented review of cases comes just weeks after a man wrongly convicted of murder was released from prison.
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murder, nypd, investigations, sarah wallace
  • guns sold targeting kids
  • Children cannot drive until their 16, cannot drink until their 21, but they can shoot firearms long before then.
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gun, gun control, gun violence, investigations, jim hoffer
  • planes bump wings at newark airport
  • The FAA says taxiway incursions occur too infrequently to warrant the expense of cameras or warning systems.
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plane emergency, newark international airport, newark liberty international airport, faa, investigations, jim hoffer
  • soldier
  • How is it possible that you join the Army Reserves, complete all your training, but never get your active duty pay?
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u.s. military, investigations, jim hoffer
  • refinery
  • The Bayway Refinery in Linden pumps out 238,000 barrels of fuel a day making it the largest refinery on the East Coast.
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linden, new jersey, investigations, jim hoffer
  • julio acevedo
  • Eyewitness News obtained an exclusive jailhouse interview with the driver accused of killing a Williamsburg family in a hit and run.
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hit and run accident, brooklyn, williamsburg, investigations, sarah wallace