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Drunken Driver Gets 21 Years For Fatal Crash Near Verrazano: DA
Aleh Sheipak faces up to 21 years in prison for driving drunk down the Belt Parkway, slamming head-on into a Lyft and killing its passenger.

Kathleen Culliton is regional manager of Patch's New York City bureau.
Aleh Sheipak faces up to 21 years in prison for driving drunk down the Belt Parkway, slamming head-on into a Lyft and killing its passenger.

Police have released photos of the man suspected of stealing a white Mitsubishi with a 1-year-old boy in the back seat in Crown Heights.
Police are looking for the man who followed a 26-year-old woman into Linden Park and raped her Saturday morning.
Three Bed-Stuy cops are teaching kids from across New York how to navigate the skies of their city.
Police seek a group of men seen sprinting away from a Crown Heights shooting that left two people critically injured and two others hurt.
Police released photos Tuesday of the man they think killed Bobby Bruce in Bed-Stuy last month.
Parts of Bushwick and Bed-Stuy saw sightings increase despite being the target of the city's $32 million rat attack plan.
Parts of Bed-Stuy and Bushwick saw sightings increase despite being the target of the city's $32 million rat attack plan.
Wendy Alberty, of East Flatbush, stands accused of locking a passenger in the bowels of a Peter Pan bus, police records show.
"We are sick and tired of prayers and vigils," Attorney General Tish James said at a gun control rally in Brooklyn. "We need action."
Jessica Bell, 16, disappeared from her Putnam Street home last Wednesday and hasn't been seen since, police said.
NYPD School Safety Agent Edward Peterson has been accused of forcing oral sex on a teenaged boy who lived in his building, cops said.
Medics rushed to Belmont and Rockaway avenues Monday morning to aid a seriously injured person Monday morning, the FDNY said.
A Franklin Avenue fried chicken restaurant has been shut down by health inspectors two times in two weeks, records show.
An $8 million lawsuit alleges Leadership Prep Ocean Hill did nothing to prevent years of violent bullying against Jewish students.
A $160,000 annual income does not bar families from applying for the newest Bushwick apartments to hit the affordable housing lottery.
A man attacked up to three people with a noxious spray on Fulton in Clinton Hill Friday morning, police said.
Police suspect Ahziem Walter shot a 13-year-old girl near a Bed-Stuy playground last week.
Department of Education inspectors found more than 360 classrooms with deteriorating lead paint in these Brooklyn public schools.
City Council Speaker Corey Johnson came to a Cypress Hills school with its own greenhouse to talk food equity and the city’s future.