A husband kicked out of the house two months ago returned home Monday and stabbed his wife to death, police said.

Hannah Donald, 47, was rushed to Kings County Hospital with multiple stab wounds to her chest, neck and arm just before 6 p.m. after an argument turned violent inside the woman’s home on E. 17 St. near Dorchester Rd. in Flatbush, police said. She later died of her injuries.A disheveled man identified by friends as Donald’s 58-year-old husband was taken into custody at the Cortelyou Rd. Q train station around 9:30 p.m., witnesses said. Friend Izafet Colok, 57, who works at a nearby laundromat, said the husband had harassed the victim after she kicked him out.(nydailynews.com)…[+]

DENVER — A high-ranking Air Force Space Command officer who was charged with rape and other crimes was found dead in his Colorado home after civilian police received a report of a suicide, officials said Monday. The body of Col. Eugene Caughey, 46, was found Sunday at his off-base home in Colorado Springs, city police said. Authorities haven’t said how he died. Caughey was relieved of his duties in June 2015 after the rape investigation began, the Air Force has said. His court-martial was scheduled for Oct. 17.(nydailynews.com)…[+]

An explosion in a Bronx drug lab killed a firefighter Tuesday morning, sources said. Emergency responders were called to the home on W. 234th St. near Irwin Ave. for a gas leak at 6:22 a.m., officials said. After they arrived, firefighters discovered a drug lab, sources said.The house exploded about 7:30 a.m., collapsing its roof and sending smoke billowing over the neighborhood.“When it exploded, 3 blocks away me and my son were in my apartment and the entire building shook,” Instagram user advocateofwordzw wrote.An FDNY battalion chief wounded by the blast was rushed to the hospital but could not be saved, sources said.(nydailynews.com)…[+]