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PORTLAND, ORE. -- On a cold, rainy morning in January of last year, Matthew Medlin hopped a refrigerated freight car in downtown Portland, Ore., and headed north. Mr. Medlin is [...]

In Thomas Dunikowski's telling, the evening of July 11, 2011, sounded like a scene out of ''Lord of the Flies.'' There is little dispute that Mr. Dunikowski, 32, fired 27 [...]

A taxi driver was fatally stabbed in the eye by a passenger while driving in Brooklyn on Thursday, causing the cab to crash into two parked cars during the evening [...]

At the edge of a quiet residential street in Brooklyn, Moses Gates stood atop a large pile of rocks, surrounded by nearly two dozen people. Some took pictures with their [...]

KINGSTON, N.Y. -- In the decade that Michael Piazza has been a landlord in this small Hudson Valley city, he has dealt with only a handful of nonpaying tenants. On [...]

The man accused of causing a car accident that killed a young couple who were expecting their first child was indicted on Wednesday on a charge of leaving the scene [...]

Two plainclothes police officers shot and killed a teenage boy late Saturday night on a Brooklyn street, after he pointed a handgun at the officers, the police said. The police [...]

The old police cruiser sat at the corner of 107th Avenue and Inwood Street in Queens, just as it did 25 years ago. On Tuesday afternoon, this throwback -- a [...]

A caller to the police reported that a boy needed an ambulance. When the police arrived on Wednesday afternoon at the address the caller gave, an apartment in a house [...]

Calling the crime one of the most brutal he had seen in his judicial career, a judge in State Supreme Court in Brooklyn on Friday sentenced a man who burned [...]

Tyshene Mungo lost her son on a warm night in September 2008. A longstanding dispute between two rival gangs -- the Lenox Boys and 2 Mafia Family, or 2MF -- [...]

A former New York City police officer was sentenced on Wednesday to 25 years in prison for robbing drug dealers with a gang. Despite a last-minute effort by the former [...]

A federal jury on Wednesday acquitted a man accused of being a boss of the Colombo crime family and another defendant of six gangland killings, including the shooting of a [...]

When Nicole Nettleford had not seen her next-door neighbor for about a year, she assumed that the woman had left Rockaway Beach, Queens, for Pennsylvania with the rest of her [...]

There were some dark twists in the plot line, inevitable, perhaps, when friends fight over $38.5 million in lottery winnings. The friends, construction workers from New Jersey, said they had [...]

Detectives are investigating the death of a 23-month-old boy in Brooklyn whose bruised body was discovered after his mother called 911 early Saturday morning to say that he was unconscious [...]

HICKSVILLE, N.Y. -- Cardinal Timothy M. Dolan told Roman Catholics on Saturday that in an era when the church was fighting the government on several fronts, they needed to make [...]

Three former high-ranking officials of the Nassau County Police Department were indicted Thursday on charges that they failed to arrest a student suspected of stealing more than $10,000 in electronic [...]

There are, perhaps, worse corners to live on in the Bronx. But try telling that to Steven Campbell: Monday was the second time in two years that his two-story home, [...]

More than two weeks after an unarmed teenager was fatally shot by a police officer in the Bronx, hundreds of friends, relatives, activists and elected officials packed a church for [...]

NEWARK -- Authorities swept in shortly after midnight Wednesday and ended what appeared to be a relatively harmonious co-existence between the city of Newark and its occupiers.At Military Park, the [...]

Two men dressed as women strutted in and out of the shadows cast by the moon, past the locked doors of residences, just off one of Brooklyn's nondescript commercial strips.One [...]

Jeremy Lin's sudden emergence as an N.B.A. star has thrilled fans at Madison Square Garden and on the road, generated a torrent of comments on social media around the world [...]

A day after a teacher's aide at a prestigious Upper West Side elementary school was arrested on charges that he sexually abused an 8-year-old student, anxious parents were readying to [...]

It was a dramatic conclusion to a day of protest: Leona Virgo, whose younger brother was shot to death by a police officer in the bathroom of their family's home [...]

After a police officer fatally shot an 18-year-old man in his Bronx apartment on Thursday, the man's grandmother, a witness to the shooting, was taken into custody and held against [...]

2:54 p.m. Updated The man charged with trying to kill a plainclothes New York police officer was ordered held without bail on Thursday at Brooklyn Criminal Court, where a prosecutor [...]

In sections of New York City where such creations would have been unthinkable a decade or so ago, huge retail centers have blossomed. But as welcome as these symbols of [...]

For the family of a woman burned to death inside an elevator in Brooklyn, the apparent act of generosity could not have come at a better time. The killing of [...]

Updated, 6:09 p.m. A 50-year-old man who may have been experimenting with fireworks died in an explosion at his home in South Ozone Park, Queens, on Monday morning, the police [...]

While their children slept, the group of friends played Uno late into the night. Sometime after 1 a.m. on Sunday, the first-floor apartment on Decatur Street in Bushwick, Brooklyn, began [...]

Updated, 10:07 p.m. Two police officers shined a searchlight behind the single-family home in East New York, Brooklyn, on Thursday night, authorities said, and found a ''highly anxious'' woman flailing [...]

The two-story houseboat had been docked on a quiet creek in a hidden corner of the Bronx for a decade. It had withstood the strong winds of Tropical Storm Irene, [...]

10:21 p.m. Updated Officers responding early Friday to a call of a jumper on the roof of a four-story building inBrooklynfound a blood trail leading down to Apartment 4A. The [...]

On Sunday morning, James J. Capano stopped in front of the pharmacy where his son, an off-duty federal agent, had lost his life less than 24 hours earlier. The son, [...]

An off-duty special agent for the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives was fatally shot on Saturday afternoon when he, along with at least one other law enforcement officer [...]

Joshua Rubin once started an Internet campaign to raise money for his dream Brooklyn coffee shop, which he hoped would be a nexus for the area's creative minds. He borrowed [...]

She has come to be known for the brutal way in which she was killed: set ablaze inside an elevator, burned alive just feet from her apartment door. But in [...]

CORRECTION APPENDED Jerome Isaac entered the courtroom in handcuffs and a white Tyvek suit, bearing what appeared to be the aftereffects of a horrific crime. Red, glistening blotches dotted his [...]

By the time Deloris Gillespie saw him, waiting on the other side of an elevator door, it was too late to escape. With her shopping bags in hand, she pushed [...]

A state tax agent who specialized in investigating the trafficking of illegal cigarettes was shot to death by her husband, a former New York police officer, the authorities said on [...]

For the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, an A train in the Rockaways, stranded for hours during the blizzard last December, became an enduring example of the agency's bungled response to the [...]

RIVERHEAD, N.Y. -- Amid the swirl of raw emotions in a Suffolk County courtroom on Thursday, one sentiment was clearly shared: David Laffer, who killed four people inside a Long [...]

The first shot went straight up in the air. The second one struck Bobby Baltazar's 4-year-old son, Cincere, in the chest as the father was returning the boy to his [...]

Updated, 4:58 p.m. Five construction workers were rescued from a five-story apartment building under construction in Brighton Beach, Brooklyn, that collapsed on Tuesday afternoon. One worker was in critical condition, [...]

The New York Police Department, already saddled with corruption scandals, saw its image further tainted on Tuesday with the conviction of a detective for planting drugs on a woman and [...]

As the corruption trial of a New York police detective wound down on Thursday afternoon, the detective's lawyer portrayed him as anything but a dirty cop: the only blemishes on [...]

ELLENVILLE, N.Y. -- The flier was bright red with a photograph and a few lines of text: ''Candlelight Vigil For Joe Helt,'' it read. ''24 Years Is Too Long!'' A [...]