At around 2 a.m. on Saturday morning, a 20-year-old man ordered an Uber to drive him from Philadelphia to Herkimer, New York, a trip that would take about five hours. Would you be you surprised to learn that not all went as planned?

Yesterday, less than a week after the Bronx District Attorney announced that manslaughter charges against Enger Javier would be dropped, a judge formally threw the charges out. Javier, who has long maintained his innocence, spent two years in Rikers Island for the alleged killing, and two more on house arrest.

The Bronx District Attorney’s office announced Friday that it will drop charges against Enger Javier, a man who spent two years in Rikers Island for a 2012 murder he has long maintained he didn’t commit.

A pair of New York City police officers were shot at a public housing complex in the Bronx Thursday night, according to authorities.

On Wednesday, the Archdiocese of New York announced, through its official newspaper, that Father Richard Gorman, the archdiocese’s director of prison chaplains, as well as a prominent local political leader, was suspended after being accused of sexually abusing minors 30 years ago.

A 43-year-old Bangladeshi man, Mujibur Rahman, was attacked while walking his 9-year-old niece home from school in the Bronx on Friday, CBS News reports. Rahman said that his attackers were yelling about ISIS.

A Bronx teenager who fell from the roof of a six-story apartment building on Thursday while trying to evade police officers died of his injuries at St. Barnabas Hospital on Saturday, the New York Times reports. Seventeen-year-old Hakeem Kuta was born in Ghana and moved to New York a few years ago with his family.

The NYPD are seeking seven people for their involvement in a brawl inside 1253 Deli in the Bronx, where three people were injured, with two suffering stab wounds. Police released surveillance footage of the battle Monday.

One NYPD officer died early Sunday morning in the Bronx after a van carrying several officers crashed into a median on the Bruckner Expressway at around 5 a.m. Eight other officers were injured and taken to several local hospitals.

The NYPD's Internal Affairs Bureau is investigating a stop-and-frisk that allegedly turned into a violent pile-on when the suspect dared to ask the officers why they were investigating him.

Here's one way to lose your job and be banned from doing that job elsewhere in your city: turn down a threesome with your boss and her boyfriend. That is the story of Carisa Gaylardo, as she tells it in a lawsuit she filed in Manhattan Supreme Court this week.

A 45-year-old man surfing on top of a northbound subway car on the 6 line died Wednesday night after hitting his head against an overhang, according to DNAinfo.

[Today a plane crash-landed on the Major Deegan Expressway in the Bronx. Three people suffered injuries, but none are believed to be life-threatning. Every year gets the Sully Sullenberger it deserves. Photo via Twitter user Daniel Miller.]

Eric Stevenson, an Assemblyman in the Bronx, was charged with embezzling nearly $20,000 in bribes associated with the launch of an adult day care center.

A Bronx bodega employee was shot and killed by a police officer early this morning as he was fleeing a robbery inside the store.

Armando Bigo, a second grader, was struck by a stray bullet while in Papa Yali's Deli last night. The footage shows Armando browsing the chips selection when he was hit in the upper chest/shoulder area. According to his mother, who was in the store as well, he is recovering at Jacobi Medical Center, where doctors are treating him for a punctur lung, a fractured rib, and an injured spinal cord. No one else was injured in the shooting.

Notoriously proud to be from da block J. Lo is the new spokesperson for Fiat, and she's been flashing the car every which way recently. But it seems she pulled the hooded sweatshirt over our eyes!

When the 200-student Bronx primary school Our Lady of Mount Carmel needed a new principal, its pastor, Rev. Eric Rapaglia, knew exactly who to hire: White supremacist author Frank Borzellieri.

Maybe the "don't try to force students to sell drugs for you" page had been torn out of Anthony Davis' "How to Be a Successful Student Aide" handbook, because that's what he allegedly went ahead and did.

After being stabbed in the side with a butcher knife, a 58-year-old parking garage attendant in the Bronx fended off two armed attackers with an apple. The surveillance video shows two younger men threatening the attendant, who happened to be holding an apple at the time. (By color, I would guess it is a Gala. Jonagold, Fuji, and Honeycrisp are also possibilities.) As the knife-wielding assailant lunges at our frugivorous hero, he flings his snack at his attacker, then shoves the thug out the door.