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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.
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.
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.
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.
A former IBM employee who was fired for visiting an adult chat room while at work is appealing a court decision against him.
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.
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.
When he hired Itzhak Perlman as artistic director of the Westchester Philharmonic in 2007, Joshua Worby thought he'd hit a grand slam.
The Justice Department says a New York police department has a skittish relationship with residents and confusing policies on the use of force.
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.
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.
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.
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.
It was an unlikely pairing, the old man and the boy.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
For the second time, hedge fund swindler Samuel Israel III is being sent to a Massachusetts federal prison.
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