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After causing some bovine bedlam on Brooklyn streets, a cow that escaped a slaughterhouse will get to enjoy the green grasses of a New Jersey animal sanctuary.

The cow was finally corralled after dodging cars and those trying to capture it Tuesday afternoon. NBC New York’s Gaby Acevedo reports.

Most people probably don’t think of Canarsie as cattle country. But a slaughterhouse escapee set off a full-scale urban round-up in the Brooklyn neighborhood Tuesday afternoon.

New York City officials on Thursday marked two decades of the city’s 311 nonemergency answering system by releasing a top-20 list of those and other memorable calls.

Ordinarily, a pet escaping its home and winding up in a neighbor’s residence wouldn’t be a big deal — except the pet in this instance was a 4-foot adult python.

Brian Thompson reporting on the Python that slithered underneath an apartment door.

A 14-foot python was found on the side of road in Long Island in February, the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation said.

A man who repeatedly admitted scheming to smuggle finches from Guyana into New York for birdsong competitions was sentenced Thursday to a year and a day in prison.

A 29-year-old woman posed as a student at New Brunswick High School for four days last month, investigators have said. They still don’t know why.

A domestic king pigeon was found in NYC’s Madison Square Park, and it appeared to have been deliberately dyed before being released, a group said.

A bird group said that the domestic king pigeon appears to have been dyed then released.

A domestic king pigeon was found in NYC’s Madison Square Park, and it appeared to have been deliberately dyed before being released, a group said.

A 29-year-old woman is facing charges after she allegedly posed as someone almost half her age and enrolled in a New Jersey high school. NBC New York’s Pat Battle reports.

A lot of people are wondering how the 29-year-old woman was able to deceive school administrators, and why she pretended to be a high schooler for four days. NBC New York’s ida Siegal reports.

A 29-year-old woman in facing charges after she allegedly posed as someone almost half her age and enrolled in a New Jersey high school.

What’s the smallest piece of private property in NYC? Hint: it’s not the studio apartment. It’s one of the most “New York” stories to be told – and an act of rebellion. NBC New York’s Linda Gaudino explains on the series, IYKYK.

TSA officers at JFK Airport likely see a lot of odd stuff in passengers’ bags, but what was found last week likely gave them paws: A live cat was found shoved into a checked bag.

TSA officers at JFK Airport likely see a lot of odd stuff in passengers’ bags, but what was found last week likely gave them paws: A live cat was found shoved into a checked bag.

It looks like a man is rolling a trash can down Manhattan street, but police say what’s inside were jewelry worth more than a half-million dollars. News 4’s Marc Santia reports.

Police on Long Island are searching for a man who they said stole hundreds of dollars worth of Pokémon cards from a Target store.