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NEW YORK — A law enforcement official says the gunman who opened fire at a New York City hospital was a doctor who formerly worked there. The official says Dr. Henry Bello walked into Bronx Lebanon Hospital at about 2:50 p.m. Friday with a rifle concealed in his lab coat and opened fire, killing at least one person and injuring six others. He then apparently killed himself.

NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) – Multiple injuries have been reported in a shooting at Bronx Lebanon Hospital, police said. The incident began at 2:50 p.m. at 173rd Street and Grand Concourse in the Mt. Eden section. Police are going floor by floor searching for a gunman, who is believed to be a former employee. The gunman is believed to be carrying a rifle and to have barricaded himself in the hospital.

Multiple people used chairs to viciously beat one another at a Bronx, New York, family restaurant, according to police and video footage of the incident. Video captured the chaos at Seafood City on City Island Avenue. The fight kicked off at 9:45pm on Thursday night, police said. People can be seen tossing and using chairs as shields in the restaurant's large dining room.

The victim, who was using a walker, was at the front counter where he put down a $50 bill. That's when an unidentified woman proceeded to take the money from the counter. The man then tried to get the money back, but the suspect then pushes him away and manages to flee the scene. The individual is described as a female, 40 to 50 years old, and was last seen wearing a black du-rag on her head and all black clothing.

FULL TITLE: Bronx man who took a selfie with his mother's severed head after he chopped up her corpse with a power saw is father to a 4-year-old boy beaten to death with a broomstick The Brooklyn woman who allegedly confessed to beating her four-year-old son to death with a broomstick was once married to the boy's incarcerated father who was convicted of killing and decapitating his mother in 2013. Tanya Byrd, 52, was killed and dismembered by her oldest son, Bahsid McLean, in February 2013 when he was married to Zarah Coombs, whose original name was Vera McLean at...

A law professor at Jesuit-run Fordham University in New York is appealing for an end to the institution of marriage in America, which he describes as “religious, gendered, and bourgeois.” Ethan J. Leib published his essay in the Fordham Law Review. The article, titled “Hail Marriage and Farewell,” says Leib was “elated” when the U.S. Supreme Court made same-sex marriage the law of the land on June 26, 2015, a ruling he described as “a victory for rights, for open-mindedness, for love, and for the future.” The decision, in fact, made him feel, at least for a moment, as if...

Fordham University’s refusal to recognize a campus chapter of the pro-Palestine group — Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) — as an official student club has drawn widespread criticism from civil and constitutional rights groups, who claim the decision was politically motivated. […] In a joint 11-page letter to the Jesuit institution, released last week, the Center for Constitutional Rights and Palestine Legal affirmed that the denial not only violated free associated principles but was a blatant case of discrimination in violation of Title IV of the Civil Rights Act, pointing that all four applicants for the SJP chapter’s executive...

Four white 15-year-old Catholic schoolgirl friends laughing and chatting on their usual bus ride home were targeted in an unprovoked, racial attack that left them bloody and bruised, the teens told The Post Wednesday. “Oh, white girl got money!” a young black man sitting with a friend commented as the girls travelled on the BX8 bus around 3 p.m. Tuesday after dismissal from St. Catharine’s Academy in the Pelham Gardens section of The Bronx.

Two NYPD sergeants were shot in the Bronx in broad daylight Friday — and a heavily-armed gunman was killed, sources said. A robbery suspect carrying multiple guns opened fire on the officers at Noble Ave. near Bronx River Ave. about 3 p.m.

Two officers shot...condition unknown.

The Foreign Minister of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, Delcy Rodriguez inaugurated the mural along with members of the community, artists and activists from the U.S. and Latin America. Rodriguez was also accompanied by members of the African American community in the Bronx. During the inauguration people shouted, “You can see him, you can feel him! Chavez is present!"

MOTT HAVEN, Bronx (WABC) -- A portion of the Major Deegan Expressway is shut down in the Bronx after a suspicious package was found near the roadway. Less than an hour later, the all clear was given by police. The package, which police said is a pressure cooker, was found at 5:35 p.m. near East 134th Street and Alexander Avenue in the Mott Haven section. This area runs under the highway. Police said no wires or cellphone were found inside the device. The Major Deegan is closed from the RFK Bridge to Willis Avenue (exit 2). Police sent the bomb...

Norman Seabrook, president of the city’s Correction Officers’ Benevolent Association, was arrested early Wednesday on federal corruption charges, officials said. Seabrook, 56, was taken into custody by federal agents at his Morris Park home in the Bronx about 6 a.m. He was under investigation for allegedly receiving kickbacks from an investment firm that does business with the 9,000-member union — the largest municipal jail union in the country.

Police sources said Nash, who has a lengthy rap sheet dating back to 1997 — including arrests for assault, robbery and arson —slugged her in the face several times before ripping off her clothes and tossing her to the floor. She was left with bruises to her forehead, cops said. Diallo, a longtime livery driver, had just gotten to the building and parked his car when received a call from his wife, urging him for help. “Call the police for me, I need help! I need help, please!” Nenegale said, according to Diallo’s brother. Fearing for his wife’s life, Diallo...

NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) — More than a hundred people have been arrested in the Bronx in what authorities are calling the largest gang takedown in New York City history. Authorities are expected to announce charges Wednesday against 120 alleged members and associates of two rival street gangs.

When Republican presidential candidate Sen. Ted Cruz came to the Bronx to campaign in the run-up to the New York primary, ridicule was not far away. After all, what is a Republican candidate doing in the staunchly Democratic, minority-majority northern part of New York City? What is he doing in New York State at all, when Donald Trump is nearly certain to carry the most votes and, according to market-based forecasts, has an 85 percent chance to win more than 50 percent of the vote? Why would Ted Cruz campaign in the Bronx? For someone like Cruz to campaign exactly...

Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) is facing an uphill battle in New York. For example, an event in the Bronx garnered what the New York Post estimated to be just shy of 100 people on the same day that GOP frontrunner and New Yorker Donald Trump held a rally that brought in what Trump estimated to be 17,000. On Tuesday afternoon there was an announcement for a Wednesday afternoon event at Bronx Lighthouse Charter School. Within hours the Cruz campaign released updated information for a Wednesday afternoon Bronx event that showed an entirely different Chinese-Dominican restaurant location. News broke Wednesday that...

There are more than 1.4 million people in the Bronx — but Ted Cruz couldn’t even muster 100 at a campaign event in Parkchester with state Sen. Ruben Diaz Sr., a conservative Christian minister. Cruz visited the Sabrosura Chinese-Dominican restaurant, where Diaz said the presidential candidate could “listen to the social, economic and spiritual needs of our community” while dining with other clergymen on the eatery’s famed fried rice and plantains.

On Wednesday, MSNBC reported on a New York City protester disrupting an event for Republican presidential candidate Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX). The protester yelled that Cruz is a “right-wing bigot” before being led out of the venue by the authorities.

<p>NEW YORK, N.Y. – A New York City middle school teacher was fined $300 for showing students a video of an Islamic State beheading, according to a published report.</p> <p>The New York Post reports that Alexiss Nazario, a veteran teacher earning $105,000 a year, showed the video to eighth-graders at the South Bronx Academy for Applied Media during the 2014-2015 school year.</p>