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Muhammad A. Aziz filed the $40 million claim on Thursday, seeking redress for a conviction that overshadowed 55 years of his life. New York's criminal justice system took 55 years [...]

An emotional crowd burst into applause in a packed Manhattan courtroom Thursday after the judge threw out the convictions of Muhammad Aziz and Khalil Islam. Muhammad A. Aziz stood up [...]

The 1966 convictions of the two men are expected to be thrown out after a lengthy investigation, validating long-held doubts about who killed the civil rights leader. Two of the [...]

Detective Gene Roberts was guarding Malcolm X before he was assassinated, but police kept his identity a secret from prosecutors. In December 1970, an undercover New York City police officer [...]

Maria Ambrocio, 58, who worked through the pandemic in a New Jersey hospital, was knocked down by a man who was fleeing after snatching a cellphone, the police said. When [...]

The infant, Legacy Beauford, was killed in the Bronx. In Brooklyn, a 4-year-old boy died after being found unconscious in a hallway. The night before 1-year-old Legacy Beauford died, he [...]

Investigators believe the men charged in the death of Davell Gardner, the city's youngest gun violence victim last year, were part of a deadly feud between gangs in Brooklyn. It [...]

The police commissioner said there will be a review to determine if correct procedures were followed in the case of 10-year-old Ayden Wolfe. The day before a 10-year-old boy named [...]

Rigoberto Lopez, 21, was arrested on murder and attempted murder charges. The police said he ambushed homeless people who were sleeping in the subway. A homeless man with a history [...]

The police say Kevin Gavin has killed three women since 2015 at the Carter G. Woodson Houses in Brooklyn. First, a funeral director found a stab wound in the neck [...]

Bertha Arriaga heard a noise and went to the window. A stray bullet hit her, making her the 343rd person murdered in New York this year. Bertha Arriaga was resting [...]

The two men had long been suspects in the 2002 killing of the D.J., a member of the group Run-DMC. When Jam Master Jay, the D.J. for the pioneering rap [...]

A 20-year-old is charged in a shooting that left a rival dead and 11 wounded at a neighborhood reunion in Brooklyn, the police say. The crowd of thousands that had [...]

[What you need to know to start the day: Get New York Today in your inbox .] On Independence Day in 2012, a 31-year-old woman who had moved to New [...]

Online, Jerry Brown adopted the persona of a killer, baptizing himself the ''Grim Creepa'' on Facebook. His former girlfriend referred to him affectionately on the site as ''Mr. 187'' -- [...]

In the nearly 30 years that Ernest J. Broadnax has lived in New York City, he has always been known for getting into trouble, with 14 arrests on charges like [...]

[What you need to know to start the day: Get New York Today in your inbox. ]As Democrats in New York last month celebrated Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo's signing of [...]

The police arrested two suspects Wednesday night in connection with the killing of a woman whose body parts were found stuffed in trash bags at two Bronx parks over the [...]

It was a simple clerical error, a missing bit of paperwork. But it had tragic consequences. Danueal Drayton was arrested earlier this year on charges that he choked an ex-girlfriend [...]

A Brooklyn man who was recorded on video carrying a gun shortly after an aide to Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo was fatally shot at a Caribbean festival in 2015 was [...]

Sunday marked two days since the police first asked for help finding the men shown on video last week dragging a 15-year-old boy out of a Bronx bodega and stabbing [...]

An ex-convict was arrested on Tuesday and charged with killing the 3-year-old daughter of his girlfriend in their Far Rockaway apartment, the authorities said. Medics and police officers found the [...]

Marina Krim leaned forward on the witness stand of a Manhattan courtroom on Friday and placed her forehead in the palm of her right hand, the pain of the proceedings [...]

As she approached the witness stand in a 13th-floor courtroom, Marina Krim stopped midstride and turned to confront Yoselyn Ortega, who sat several feet away at the defense table. ''Oh, [...]

A New York City police officer was acquitted on Monday of murder and manslaughter charges in the off-duty killing of an unarmed man who the officer said attacked him last [...]

To prosecutors, the shooting by an off-duty New York City police officer last year in Brooklyn was murder, a killing of an unarmed motorist in a fit of road rage. [...]

Opening arguments are scheduled to begin on Monday in the trial of a New York City police officer who shot and killed a motorist in a traffic dispute as he [...]

A white Army veteran from Baltimore, who the police said traveled to New York to kill black men, was indicted on Monday on rare state charges of murder as terrorism. [...]

Two men were charged with murder in Manhattan on Thursday, a day after the body of a Connecticut man they had partied with over the weekend was found in a [...]

A Queens woman admitted pushing another woman to her death in front of a subway train in Times Square, prosecutors said in court on Tuesday, but the woman denied that [...]

The girl named Heaven lay curled up asleep next to her grandmother on the mattress they shared on the living room floor. The woman, Carmen Irizarry, had been the 9-year-old's [...]

The abuse that 4-year-old Myls Dobson suffered -- the beatings, burnings and deprivation -- lasted for three weeks and ended with his death in January 2014. The prison term his [...]

A 23-year-old man has been charged with murder in the death of a top aide in the Cuomo administration who was fatally shot last year in the crossfire between dueling [...]

A babysitter has been charged with murder in the death of a 16-month-old boy she had been caring for on Staten Island over the weekend, the police said on Tuesday. [...]

The suspect wanted in the stabbing at a Staten Island motel that left a homeless woman and two of her daughters dead was arrested and charged with murder on Saturday, [...]

The family of Hae Min Lee, whose former boyfriend is seeking a retrial 16 years after he was convicted of killing her, broke its silence on Sunday. A State Circuit [...]

Adnan Syed, whose conviction for the murder of his former high school girlfriend was the initial subject of the popular ''Serial'' podcast, appeared in a Maryland court on Wednesday as [...]

Eighteen members of a street gang responsible for a ''wave of terror'' in Brooklyn have been charged with violent crimes in a 76-count indictment, law enforcement officials said on Wednesday. [...]

A Brooklyn teenager who opened fire on a crowded New York City bus during a gang turf war two years ago, killing a 39-year-old immigrant who was an unintended target, [...]

Two Virginia Tech students were arrested over the weekend in connection with the abduction and death of a 13-year-old girl whose remains were found on Saturday, school and law enforcement [...]

The police in Italy have arrested a man in the death of an American woman whose body was found in her apartment in Florence last weekend, according to Italian news [...]

More than a month after an 82-year-old woman was found dead on the kitchen floor of her Brooklyn apartment, the police said on Monday that she had been murdered. The [...]

A federal appeals court ruled on Monday that Louisiana could keep an inmate locked up for the 1972 murder of a prison guard and said prosecutors may try him a [...]

A prisoner awaiting trial on accusations that he killed a Georgia sheriff spent nearly 12 hours on the run on Tuesday after he escaped custody by slipping out of his [...]

A 3-year-old girl who was thrown into a pond at an apartment complex by her father late Sunday died on Wednesday, the police in Durham, N.C., said. The girl and [...]

A Bronx man was arrested on Wednesday and charged with killing a borough taxi driver during a dispute over the fare, the police said. The driver, Mamadou Barry, 39, an [...]

CORRECTION APPENDEDFive fraternity members from Baruch College in Manhattan will face murder charges in Pennsylvania for their involvement in the death of a freshman who was hazed during a rural [...]

HOUSTON -- Details emerged on Sunday of an arrest history for Shannon Jaruay Miles, the 30-year-old man the authorities have accused of fatally shooting a sheriff's deputy at a suburban [...]

An ex-convict wanted in Tennessee for the murder of a Memphis police officer turned himself in to the authorities on Monday, law enforcement officials said. Tremaine Wilbourn, 29, was taken [...]

CORRECTION APPENDEDA suspect was being sought Sunday night in the killing of a Memphis police officer who was shot after he interrupted a drug deal the night before, the police [...]