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Byline: PAUL VITELLO David Truong, a Vietnamese antiwar activist whose conviction on espionage charges in the United States in 1978 raised alarms about the federal government's use of wiretaps without [...]

CORRECTION APPENDEDJoseph P. Franklin, a white supremacist who killed at least eight people in a shooting spree from 1977 to 1980 and confessed to being the sniper who wounded the [...]

Gaeton Fonzi was one of the most relentless investigators on the House Select Committee on Assassinations in the late 1970s, remembered by former colleagues with both awe and echoes of [...]

A New Jersey Transit worker who was fired after burning pages of a Koran during a demonstration in Lower Manhattan on Sept. 11 last year has been reinstated, reimbursed for [...]

CORRECTION APPENDED Afrika Owes received all the benefits a church could offer to a poor young girl in a place like Harlem: Head Start, Sunday school, gospel choir, after-school recreation, [...]

A state senator has scheduled a daylong hearing for Friday on terrorism preparedness in New York City, featuring an array of experts in law enforcement, emergency response and counterterrorism. But [...]

MASSAPEQUA PARK, N.Y. -- It was not the first time a health scare had infiltrated the sanctuary of a Roman Catholic church. The bodily contact in certain church rituals has [...]

A once-influential Roman Catholic monsignor who oversaw fund-raising for the Archdiocese of New York, running the annual Alfred E. Smith political dinner during the tenure of Cardinal John J. O'Connor, [...]

A prominent Harlem priest who helped arrange the New York visit of Pope Benedict XVI in 2008 has resigned, two years after he was suspended on charges of sexually abusing [...]

The anxiety and anger have been building all year. In March, a national coalition of Islamic organizations warned that it would cease cooperating with the F.B.I. unless the agency stopped [...]

The deposition was in its fifth grueling hour. The lawyer and the witness had dueled over the meaning of common words, about whether an executive 'supervises' or 'administers,' about the […]

The United States Supreme Court on Monday rejected a request by the Roman Catholic Diocese of Bridgeport to delay the court-ordered release of thousands of legal documents from lawsuits filed […]

On a blog catering to young Syrian Jews in Brooklyn (where almost everyone has a blog), one comment seemed to crystallize the mix of puzzlement and dark humor emerging in […]

The young receive free educations and the old get free geriatric care. Family businesses connect relatives in a web of interdependence to the furthest reaches of kinship. Wedding receptions with […]

The Roman Catholic Diocese of Bridgeport asked the Connecticut Supreme Court on Friday to reconsider its order to unseal 12,000 pages of court documents related to lawsuits claiming sexual abuse […]

Bishop Nicholas A. DiMarzio of Brooklyn repeated a warning this week that he has leveled at lawmakers for months: If the statute of limitations on child sex-abuse lawsuits is temporarily […]

Connecticut's highest court ruled on Friday that thousands of pages of documents from sexual-abuse lawsuits filed against priests in the Roman Catholic Diocese of Bridgeport that had been kept sealed […]

J. Ezra Merkin, the financier who entrusted sizable portions of his friends' and investors' money to what turned out to be Bernard L. Madoff's Ponzi scheme, stepped down Wednesday night […]

Longstanding tensions among parishioners at the renowned Riverside Church erupted again this week as a group of congregants went to court to stop the installation of a new senior pastor […]

The dean of discipline at an all-boys Roman Catholic high school in the Bronx has been suspended indefinitely after being arrested last week on charges of propositioning and groping a […]

Two Roman Catholic priests who until recently lived on the campus of Fordham Preparatory School in the Bronx sexually abused teenagers there in the 1960s and '70s, two groups that […]

Msgr. Wallace A. Harris, a prominent Harlem pastor who was suspended from his duties last month after two men accused him of sexually abusing them as children, has since been […]

There was a time when a minister like James David Manning could stand in the pulpit of his little church on 123rd Street in Harlem and say pretty much anything […]

A Harlem pastor and retired police officer said on Thursday that he was sexually abused as a teenager by Msgr. Wallace A. Harris, the prominent and popular priest who was […]

Tall and charismatic, Msgr. Wallace A. Harris has earned a reputation over a 36-year career for cool-handed crisis management and for forging connections. He revived a Harlem parish where the […]

It may not be the most heavily attended church in the area, but the imposing Roman Catholic church on 141st Street, St. Charles Borromeo, known locally as Harlem's Cathedral, has […]

This article was reported by Richard G. Jones, Corey Kilgannon and Paul Vitello and written by Mr. Vitello. She was sometimes seen good-naturedly juggling her children while pushing a stroller […]

Almost 19 years after the murders of Seymour and Arlene Tankleff in their Belle Terre home, a new grand jury has been impaneled to determine who might have killed the […]

Martin H. Tankleff, the Long Island man whose conviction was dismissed 17 years after he was found guilty of murdering his parents, has begun taking classes toward a bachelor's degree […]

This article is by Bruce Lambert, Paul Vitello and Nate Schweber. He called himself the Bagel King of Long Island, and with dozens of stores and franchise contracts, Jerard Steuerman […]

A state prosecutor was given 30 days by a Suffolk County judge on Friday to decide how to proceed with a case involving the 1988 murders of a Long Island […]

The Suffolk County district attorney said on Wednesday that he would not retry Martin H. Tankleff for the 1988 murders of his parents and that he would ask Gov. Eliot […]

Most people here in the Long Island village where Alfonse M. D'Amato grew up do not even know about the $5.4 million fine in a federal civil rights case that […]

The two tiny Indonesian women know just a handful of English words. They know Windex. Fantastik (the cleanser, not the adjective). They know the words Master and Missus, which they […]

The trial of a black man accused of killing a white youth who threatened his son will be as much about race and the echoes of Jim Crow lynch mobs […]

The Nassau County district attorney, Kathleen Rice, said yesterday that she would investigate 'the entirety of the circumstances' that led a patient to be infected with hepatitis C and hundreds […]

Nassau County health officials yesterday reported another positive test for hepatitis among the patients of an anesthesiologist on Long Island whose faulty infection-control practices put hundreds of people at risk. […]

Days after a cluster of hepatitis cases in 2002 led health investigators to a clinic in Norman, Okla., the state's chief epidemiologist held a news conference to urge anyone who […]

State health officials notified 628 patients this week that they should be tested for hepatitis and H.I.V. infection because they were treated years ago by an anesthesiologist in Nassau County […]

A former lawyer for the state court system, fired in June from her job investigating lawyers charged with misconduct, has charged in a federal lawsuit that supervisors 'whitewashed' some cases […]

All the nooses are different, the police say. Some are coiled six times, some eight. Some are simple knots. The one found here the other day, suspended from a fence […]

One student walked out in protest, but the reception for Lynne F. Stewart, the radical lawyer convicted on charges of smuggling messages out of prison for a terrorist client, was […]

A 33-year-old drifter with a history of drug addiction pleaded guilty on Wednesday to murder, assault and other charges in the dismemberment of a retired teacher who lived next door […]

A 19-year-old Long Island man was killed Thursday and seven members of his family were sickened when a gasoline-powered generator they were using because their power had been shut off […]

John H. White, a black man charged in the shooting death last August of a white youth who had followed his teenage son home after a racially tinged quarrel at […]

Federal prosecutors charged a wealthy Long Island couple on Tuesday with keeping two Indonesian domestic workers as virtual prisoners in their home for more than five years under conditions they […]

Federal prosecutors yesterday charged a prominent Southampton real estate broker with possession of child pornography that they said included images of infants being sexually molested. The broker, Matthias von Wrede, […]

A man whose conviction last year on two counts of murder was a rare exception to the rule in drunken driving cases was sentenced here today to a prison term […]

Like many of the one million Americans who go through a divorce each year, Marvin Singer is indignant, depressed, financially stressed and convinced that he is a victim of judicial […]