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A 20-year-old man was attacked by two men on the campus of a Long Island college Tuesday.

The victim, Elisha McGowan was attacked by the men by on Tuesday afternoon. They hit him on the head with a handgun and stole his watch, cellphone and gold chain. After the robbery, the two men fled in a gray Ford Mustang.

The suspects approached the man when he was leaving a Nassau Community College (NCC) building in East Garden then. McGowan said that he said hello to two men walking by, one he recognized. Afterwards, one of the suspects came up behind him and hit him.

Cops shot a 34-year-old man on Saturday when he refused the orders to drop the gun that he pointed towards two uniformed NYPD officers in Downtown Brooklyn.

The suspect had a loaded .45 caliber semi-automatic handgun that he removed from his waistband.

The police said that at about 12:50 a. m. the gunman brandished a silver handgun before he was shot in the lower torso around Nassau St. and Bridge St. near the Manhattan Bridge.

The authorities said that two uniformed officers came in an unmarked car in front of 189 Nassau St., got out and encountered two men. One of them got on the ground whereas the other man pulled out the pistol as he took off running down the block.

New Battery Prototyping Center has been opened at the Rochester Institute of Technology. The center, which costs $1.5 million, will be conducting research and working with companies in order to develop next-generation rechargeable batteries for things such as cell phones.

On Friday, state officials helped Rochester Institute of Technology inaugurate the new center. The new centre is related to a larger plan, in which experts look forward to establishing a battery and energy storage hub in the Rochester-Finger Lakes region. The project was sponsored by Empire State Development and other state agencies.

Companies can make use of the new laboratory's equipment in order to conduct their own trials or take help from RIT to carry out the work.

Between 1910 and 1970, nearly six million African-Americans left the South to avoid sharecropping, very-low wages and segregation. After so many years, trend seems to be changing as now many African-American families are migrating back to South, which offers cheaper taxes and better job opportunities.

This new trend can be called 'reverse migration'. One of those who left the South was Annette McFarland. McFarland, 74, shared that it's been six decades now that they have shifted to Rochester.

She affirmed that now many are relocating to today's Southern urban centers for better jobs and homes. In 1900, Georgia, Alabama and Mississippi were the biggest state populations of African-Americans in the US.

Westchester County officials reported that a driver got stuck between railroad crossing gates, which are not far from a rail crossing in New York where a fiery crash between a train and another car killed six people last month.

Cynthia Parent was caught between the safety gate and the tracks just before 11 am Saturday when the gate's arm came down on the back of her vehicle, Chrysler PT Cruiser.

According to Parent, she was driving behind a gray car whose driver came to the tracks and looked both ways before crossing. When she drove up to cross the tracks, the gate arm came down on top of her car. However, she quickly backed up, snapped the gate arm and freed her car.

The United Kingdom will witness solar eclipse twice this year. The first eclipse is due on March 20. The eclipse due this month last occurred in 1999. Although this year's eclipse will be partial but still it will darken across much of the country. More than 80% of the sunlight will be obscured.

And six months later, on September 28, second eclipse will black out the sun across the whole country, and will also cover much of Western Europe.

As per experts, solar eclipse occurs when the Moon moves directly between the sun and the earth, casting a shadow on the planet's surface.

Countries located at the center of the shaded area experience a total solar eclipse, whereas those on the nearer edge of the shadow witness a partial eclipse, which leaves only a portion of the Sun visible.