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A gas station attendant was punched during a robbery Sunday night, a little more than an hour before a man was robbed with a hammer near another city filling station, police said yesterday.

City firefighters returned from a call yesterday morning to find that their firehouse had been broken into and personal items stolen, Fire Director Qareeb Bashir confirmed.

"The suit was eventually settled out of court, but the issue hasn't gone away, said Courtney Bowie, a senior staff attorney with the Racial Justice Program of the New York City-based civil-liberties advocacy group. "At the time, the case law wasn't quite as clear as it is today as to whether it is permissible for a school district to search the entire contents of a student's cell phone," Bowie said an in an interview. "In 2010, smartphones that could basically hold all the power and information of a computer were still a new thing, and [this issue] hadn't really been fleshed out in the courts yet." "

A Queens teen facing immediate deportation to Bangladesh got a last-minute reprieve Thursday - one day before her 20th birthday.

We've all heard of buying a house, an apartment and a car. But an island?

Turkey's prime minister has warned that Syria could descend into a sectarian civil war, as the unrest there continues.Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan told the Egyptian newspaper Al-Shorouk Tuesday he fears the crisis engulfing Turkey's southern neighbor will end in conflict between the Alawites and the Sunnis.

Bodies hanging from bridge in Mexico are warning to social media users

At 9:15 a.m. on Saturday, February 12, guidance counselor Geneva Richards witnessed killer Maksim Gelman's capture and arrest on a subway in Times Square.

At 9:15 a.m. on Saturday, February 12, guidance counselor Geneva Richards witnessed killer Maksim Gelman's capture and arrest on a subway in Times Square. Gelman, a 23-year-old Ukrainian immigrant, had been the target of a massive police manhunt for murdering four people in the twenty-eight hours before his arrest.

The handball courts behind Junior High School 51 in Washington Park near Fourth Ave. and Third St. draw about 30 gang members, sources and residents said. The Washington Park Kings claim they are merely using the park as a place to meet rather than to battle rival groups like the Crips and the Trinitarios.

A Park Slope park has turned into a hangout for the Latin Kings - and the cops are cracking down, the Daily News has learned.

The bench verdict from Justice Gustin L. Reichbach in State Supreme Court in Brooklyn stemmed from acts committed in 2007 by the defendant, Jason Arbeeny, a 14-year veteran of the department who worked in the Brooklyn South unit.