A "polar vortex" of dense and frigid air descended upon much of the U.S. early Monday, which dropped temperatures in some parts of the country to near-record lows. The weather conditions prompted wind chill warnings from Montana to Alabama,
39-year-old Brooklyn resident Menechem Stark was kidnapped and murdered late last Thursday, and his partially charred body was found in a dumpster at a Getty gas station in Great Neck. Stark was accosted by two people who dragged the father of 8 Hasidic man into a "2006 or 2007 Dodge Caravan, on Rutledge St." Stark was found just before 4 p.m. last Friday.
"Every day over the past 12 years, I've awakened thinking about how to make our city stronger and safer, healthier and greener, freer and fairer, more just and compassionate, more innovative and forward-looking, with more opportunity for all," said outgoing New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg in his final radio address. "On Wednesday morning I will wake up and smile, knowing that we did everything we could to achieve those goals."
49-year-old Elias Acevedo Sr. pleaded guilty on Monday to 297 counts, including aggravated murder, rape and kidnapping, and will serve a life imprisonment sentence for the killings of two women in the 1990s, CNN reported. The cases "were re-investigated after the discovery of three women held captive nearby for years by Ariel Castro,"
