Police Misidentify Suspect as Brussels Airport Attacker and other top stories.

• Police Misidentify Suspect as Brussels Airport Attacker

  He added that the prosecutor would decide at the end of the investigation whether to prosecute Mr. Cheffou, and that only then would the status of the charges against him be decided.In a separate statement, the prosecutor’s office said Monday that three men detained in and around Brussels on Sunday had been charged with participating in the activities of a terrorist group. It was not clear if they were connected to the attacks last Tuesday.The disarray over Mr. Cheffou followed a catalog of mis..

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• Times Square evacuated after suspicious package found; New York ...

  

  Times Square in New York City was evacuated due to a bomb scare Monday, multiple outlets have reported.  After reports trickled out that a suspicious package had been found in the area, police moved to evacuate the square and have reportedly dispatched a bomb squad to investigate the object in question. Investigators later determined the "suspicious package" was just some garbage, Brooklyn Patch reports.  Manhattan *Suspicious Package* Marriot Marquee W 45 St & Broadway. Whole area of Times S..

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• Private Equity Executive Accused of Faking Investments

  

  Photo Andrew Caspersen is a son of Finn M.W. Caspersen, a Wall Street financier and philanthropist who committed suicide in 2009. Credit Peter Reitzfeld A former executive with a large private equity firm has been arrested and charged with securities fraud, federal prosecutors said on Monday.Andrew Caspersen, a Harvard Law School graduate and a partner at the Park Hill Group, an advisory firm that until last fall had been a part of the Blackstone Group’s advisory busine..

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• Georgia Governor Rejects Bill Shielding Critics of Gay Marriage

  

  Gay rights groups argued that the bill would have cloaked discrimination as a form of religious liberty.Mr. Deal’s decision left the bill’s supporters, most of them Republicans, dismayed.“We control all the constitutional offices, we control the legislature, and today, the governor has turned his back on millions and millions of people who have very real concerns about what their religious freedom looks like in the wake of a very fluid legal environment,” said State Senator Josh McKoon, a Repub..

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• Starwood Bidding War Increases With Higher Offer

  

  Photo The JW Marriott Essex House hotel in Manhattan. Credit Suzanne DeChillo/The New York Time After a Chinese-led group raised its bid for Starwood Hotels to $14 billion, the hotel chain’s other suitor must now decide whether it will prolong the bidding war.For now, Marriott International is sticking to its $13.5 billion offer, the company said on Monday, arguing that its proposal was solid while the competing offer led by the Anbang Insurance Group of China may not b..

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• New York Today: Magic in Midtown

  

  Photo Watch very closely … Credit Dave Sanders for The New York Times Updated, 1:38 p.m.Good morning on this rainy Monday.Harry Houdini would’ve turned 142 this month, and his craft is kept very much alive by New Yorkers like Adam Blumenthal.Mr. Blumenthal owns Tannen’s Magic, which has been in Midtown for 91 years.“Do you have a good imagination?” Mr. Blumenthal inquired in a low voice when I visited recently.Hanging above the entrance is a pair of Houdini’s handcuffs ..

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• Man Shot By Officers After Allegedly Pulling Gun At U.S. Capitol ...

  

  WASHINGTON (CBSNewYork/AP) — Police shot and wounded a man at the U.S. Capitol Visitor Center Monday afternoon when he allegedly pulled a gun at officers during a security screening. As CBS2’s Jessica Schneider reported, the U.S. Capitol was on lockdown for about an hour after the incident. A bystander was also injured. The man entered the Capitol Visitor Center Monday afternoon, took out the weapon during screening, and proceeded to point it at officers, according to Capitol Police Chief Matth..

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• US|US Anti-Gang Sweep Yields Over 1100 Arrests

  

  Photo Of the 1,133 people arrested, more than 900 were members or associates of gangs, including MS-13, the Sureños, the Norteños, the Bloods and several others based in prisons. Credit U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Federal authorities have arrested more than 1,100 people since February as part of an enforcement campaign against gangs that traffic guns, drugs and people across United States borders, officials said.The gangs caught in the dragnet were not smal..

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• New York Lawmakers Discuss Race Relations In Wake of Liang Case

  

  When Brooklyn District Attorney Ken Thompson announced Wednesday that he would recommend a sentence of no jail time for Peter Liang, the former New York Police Department officer convicted of killing Akai Gurley, reaction across New York City ranged from disappointment and anger to relief that the 28-year-old might be spared up to 15 years in prison. Thompson's recommendation of five years probation, six months of home confinement, and 500 hours of community service, which is not binding but..

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