The alleged mastermind behind the botched abduction and murder of Brooklyn landlord Menachem Stark was arrested after he stormed into an NYPD stationhouse looking for his brother — who had just been arrested for his own role in the plot, police sources said Friday.

Erskin Felix showed up at the 90th Precinct stationhouse in Williamsburg Thursday looking for his 28-year-old brother Kendall Felix, who had been nabbed by cops in lower Manhattan earlier in the day after they got a tip on his whereabouts. After questioning Erskin Felix, 38, at the stationhouse, cops charged him with kidnapping and murder. His younger brother was charged with hindering prosecution and tampering with physical evidence for allegedly torching Stark’s body and dumping the father of seven’s remains in a dumpster next to a gas station in Great Neck, L.I. on Jan. 2, 2014.(nydailynews.com)…[+]

Mayor de Blasio insisted there was no rush to judgment when he and the police commissioner blamed an NYPD sergeant in the fatal shooting of a schizophrenic Bronx woman. “The public had a right to know this shouldn’t have happened,” de Blasio said during his Friday WNYC radio appearance. De Blasio, along with top cop James O’Neill, was quick to condemn the sergeant who pulled the trigger Tuesday night when Deborah Danner, 66, was killed inside her apartment. Though the mayor and commissioner came under criticism for their critiques, de Blasio said there was no question that NYPD protocols were ignored and the woman should still be alive.(nydailynews.com)…[+]

HAVANA-Cuba and  the United States signed on Thursday a historic memo of understanding to cooperate in Cancer control. The document, which was penned in Havana by Cuban Health Minister Roberto Morales and by US Secretary of Health Sylvia Burwell, establishes joint actions in the control, research, surveillance and evaluation of Cancer, a disease currently affecting millions of people in the world and a major cause of death both in Cuba and the United States.

The MOU aims at the implementation of collaborations projects and technical meetings to exchange information and good practices in the fight on Cancer. Upon signing the MOU, the US Health Secretary said that they wish to keep boosting this kind of alliance already established between the two health ministries, particularly in the fight on Cancer. She said they are very interested in the joint work with Cuba.  Meanwhile, the Cuban Health Minister said that the signing of the document is an important action following a previous MOU signed in Washington between the US Department of Health and Human Services and the Cuban Health Ministry, which ratifies the will of both sides to advance bilateral health cooperation.

In The Americas, Cancer is the second major cause of death, estimates say that 2.8 million people are diagnosed with Cancer every year, while 1.3 million patients die from Cancer. In Cuba, malign tumors have become the second major cause of death, with a prevalence of about 40 thousand cases annually. (Source: ACN)…[+]