Fri Nov 6, 2009 4:27 PM EST
A federal judge imposed an unusual election system on a suburban village Friday, nearly two years after finding that the existing system was unfair to Hispanics.
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Tue Oct 20, 2009 1:44 PM EDT
Former New York City Police Commissioner Bernard Kerik is getting a quick hearing on his appeal of the ruling that put him behind bars, but he won't be getting out of jail before there's a decision.
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Tue Sep 29, 2009 3:24 PM EDT
The terror attack on the World Trade Center, which made New York City's police commissioner a national figure, cannot be brought up by the defense at his corruption trial, a federal judge ruled Tuesday.
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Tue Sep 22, 2009 7:03 PM EDT
Moammar Gadhafi's Bedouin-style tent, which brought a camel-themed tapestry and four days of consternation to a leafy New York suburb, was last seen Friday being bundled into a U-Haul.
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Mon Sep 21, 2009 3:43 PM EDT
A former IBM employee who was fired for visiting an adult chat room while at work is appealing a court decision against him.
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Thu Sep 17, 2009 6:47 PM EDT
Four ex-convicts accused of plotting to bomb synagogues and shoot down military planes apparently will claim they were lured into the conspiracy with gifts including cash and fried chicken.
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Wed Jul 15, 2009 7:00 AM EDT
A hedge-fund swindler who faked his own death in an effort to skip out on a 20-year prison term was sentenced Wednesday to two extra years.
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Sat Jul 4, 2009 1:02 PM EDT
When he hired Itzhak Perlman as artistic director of the Westchester Philharmonic in 2007, Joshua Worby thought he'd hit a grand slam.
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Fri Jun 19, 2009 2:28 PM EDT
The Justice Department says a New York police department has a skittish relationship with residents and confusing policies on the use of force.
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Tue Jun 16, 2009 2:02 PM EDT
The former New York City policeman who stormed into a suburban middle school with a gun had to sort through body parts after 9/11 and suffers from post-traumatic stress, his attorney said Tuesday.
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Wed May 27, 2009 4:26 PM EDT
A policeman who was caught on video apparently body-slamming a woman to a restaurant's tile floor was acquitted Wednesday of violating her civil rights.
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Tue May 19, 2009 3:15 PM EDT
Jurors at a policeman's civil rights trial watched a video Tuesday that appeared to show the officer lifting a woman by her waist and throwing her face-first onto a hard tile floor of a restaurant.
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Thu May 7, 2009 10:32 AM EDT
The suburban mother who ordered her bickering daughters out of her car and drove off without them said Thursday that she made a mistake. A charge against her is likely to be dismissed.
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Wed Apr 29, 2009 7:51 AM EDT
It was an unlikely pairing, the old man and the boy.
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Mon Apr 27, 2009 3:14 PM EDT
After battling a suburban family for four years over music downloads, the recording industry has agreed to accept $7,000 — paid in installments — to settle its federal piracy lawsuit.
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Tue Apr 21, 2009 5:27 PM EDT
The woman who allegedly ordered her squabbling young daughters out of her car and drove off without them quickly returned to the scene expecting to pick them up, her lawyer said Friday.
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Mon Mar 23, 2009 3:29 PM EDT
The parents of a 7-year-old boy who died on an amusement park ride have tentatively settled their lawsuit against a New York county for $1.25 million.
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Sun Mar 15, 2009 2:07 PM EDT
Nothing seems to be missing at St. James Episcopal Church, where Paul Greenwood is the treasurer. The books at the local library, where he was on the board, appear to be in order. A financial audit of town government, where Greenwood moonlighted as supervisor and refused the $88,257 salary, hasn't turned up anything suspicious so far.
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Thu Mar 12, 2009 5:07 PM EDT
If Ruth Madoff hopes to hold onto her fancy apartment, her millions in cash and her jetsetting lifestyle while her husband is in prison, experts have some advice for her: Get ready for an inquisition.
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Fri Feb 27, 2009 5:26 PM EST
Lawyers have reached a tentative settlement in a music piracy lawsuit filed by the recording industry against the children of one of its best-known opponents, both sides said Friday.
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Fri Feb 27, 2009 4:32 AM EST
A federal judge in New York says a hedge-fund cheat is well enough to stand trial — or plead guilty — for skipping out on prison.
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Fri Feb 20, 2009 4:54 PM EST
President Barack Obama's pick for White House director of urban affairs has won fans for his efforts to revitalize some of New York's poorest neighborhoods — and foes for his vigorous support of the Yankees' new billion-dollar stadium.
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Tue Feb 10, 2009 11:21 AM EST
The girlfriend of a former hedge fund manager convicted of swindling clients out of millions of dollars pleaded guilty Tuesday to helping him flee before he was supposed to start serving a 20-year prison sentence.
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Mon Dec 22, 2008 5:36 PM EST
A slain police officer's sister reacted with disgust after a jury cleared a former actor on "The Sopranos" of her brother's killing during a botched burglary three years ago.
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Fri Dec 19, 2008 1:47 PM EST
For the second time, hedge fund swindler Samuel Israel III is being sent to a Massachusetts federal prison.
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