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The doctor in charge of medical care for 12,000 New York City jail inmates abruptly resigned last week after questions arose about his professional certification, forcing city officials and executives [...]

A witness to a murder of a young man on a Greenwich Village street corner in 1991 told a state court on Tuesday that the man serving a 23-year prison […]

After 11 legal attempts to overturn a 1992 Manhattan murder conviction that was based on testimony since recanted or found to be false, Fernando Bermudez will have a day in […]

The part-time Correction Department rabbi who arranged for a prisoner convicted on a $1.7 million fraud charge to hold a lavish six-hour bar mitzvah party for his son in a […]

The city's Department of Investigation has opened an inquiry into how a well-connected inmate was able to schedule, cater and host a bar mitzvah for his son -- with 60 […]

For years, two brothers, former officials of a school bus drivers' union that was under the sway of organized crime figures, pressured bus companies that had contracts with the city […]

Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg and city labor officials announced a tentative agreement Tuesday to amend health benefits for more than 550,000 current and retired city employees, guaranteeing the city $400 […]

They came to the clinic at the base in Iraq for reasons as different as their ranks. Maj. Matthew P. Houseal, a 54-year-old psychiatrist and father of seven in the […]

As job actions go, it was neither long nor loud. Just three and a half hours and no chanting. But hotel workers at the Jumeirah Essex House on Central Park […]

The union representing New York City carpenters, one of the area's largest construction trades, continues to be roiled by turmoil after years of investigations into corruption and organized-crime influence and, […]

A senior enlisted Army soldier was convicted on Wednesday of killing four handcuffed and blindfolded Iraqi men with pistol shots to the backs of their heads shortly after arresting them […]

A prominent city electrical contractor with close ties to an indicted former assemblyman and labor union executive from Queens was himself indicted Friday on federal conspiracy and bribery charges. The […]

The City Education Department, working to avoid a possible strike by unionized workers, wants to require companies that win preschool busing contracts this year to hire the drivers and other […]

For years, the labor union representing most New York City school bus drivers and escorts did more to benefit organized crime than it did for all but a handful of […]

On Dec. 4, Staff Sgt. Alberto B. Martinez was found not guilty of killing two New York Army National Guard officers in Iraq -- a rare case of soldier-on-soldier violence […]

Two former City Education Department inspectors pleaded guilty on Friday to taking bribes from school bus companies in exchange for favorable treatment, including overlooking safety violations and falsifying records that […]

The city's Education Department plans to review whether nine school bus companies that transport a fifth of the New York City's public school students are fit to do business with […]

A federal jury on Monday convicted five men of conspiring to kill American soldiers at Fort Dix in New Jersey last year, but acquitted them of attempted murder. The jury […]

A federal jury on Monday convicted five men of conspiracy to kill American soldiers at the Fort Dix military base in New Jersey last year, but acquitted them of attempted […]

WHEN Garry F. McCarthy was picked to lead the Newark Police Department two years ago, he found himself talking and thinking more about what was going wrong, in the department […]

In March or April 2007, three noncommissioned United States Army officers, including a first sergeant, a platoon sergeant and a senior medic, killed four Iraqi prisoners with pistol shots to […]

More than two decades after the infamous garbage barge of 1987 moored in Brooklyn after haplessly floating to six states and three foreign countries in search of a dump, barges […]

Capt. Phillip Esposito and Staff Sgt. Alberto Martinez went to war together, two very different soldiers from the same New York National Guard unit. After five months in Iraq, a [...]

Hours before his court-martial was set to begin, all charges were dismissed Friday against one of two remaining enlisted marines involved in a combat action that killed 24 Iraqis in […]

Marines from an elite combat unit who American military commanders said killed 19 Afghan civilians last year after a suicide bomb attack withstood hostile gunfire immediately after the explosion, witnesses […]

A former member of an elite Marine combat unit that operated last year in eastern Afghanistan testified Tuesday that his comrades appeared to have needlessly killed civilians after their convoy […]

A Marine infantryman accused of killing 17 Iraqi civilians during a combat maneuver in Haditha in late 2005 will be tried by court-martial on charges of voluntary manslaughter but will […]

A suicide bomber detonated an explosives-packed vest amid a group of civilians and American soldiers northeast of Baghdad on Thursday, killing several people. The Iraqi police said that 14 people, […]

-- British forces handed over control of Basra Province to Iraq's government on Sunday, giving up military control of the final region under their supervision after four and a half […]

Homemade bombs hit two Baghdad liquor stores early Thursday, and attacks in several other parts of the city killed two people and wounded at least seven others. Eleven more deaths […]

Prime Minister Gordon Brown of Britain made an unannounced visit to southern Iraq on Sunday to address his nation's troops as they prepared to hand over the region to Iraqi […]

Car bombs in Baghdad and three northern Iraqi cities killed at least 22 people and wounded more than 60 others on Wednesday, as Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates arrived for […]

Gen. David H. Petraeus, the top United States commander in Iraq, and Ryan C. Crocker, the American ambassador to Baghdad, have agreed on the details governing the operations of Blackwater […]

Deputy Secretary of State John D. Negroponte, in Baghdad after a week of meetings with Iraqi provincial leaders, said Sunday that lawmakers must take advantage of the decline in daily […]

The leader of an Army sniper unit was acquitted yesterday of premeditated murder charges in connection with the killings of three Iraqi men in a region south of Baghdad last […]

An Army sniper team leader charged with murdering three men south of Baghdad will go on trial today in Baghdad in a court-martial that is likely to highlight a classified […]

The Blackwater USA compound here is a fortress within a fortress. Surrounded by a 25-foot-high wall of concrete topped by a chain-link fence and razor wire, the compound sits deep […]

An Iraqi journalist working in Baghdad for Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty was reported missing on Monday morning after police officers found the body of her driver, who had been shot […]

In the private security business that has made Blackwater USA virtually a household name, being tough is part of the game. Not just for its rifle-carrying contractors but also for […]

A Marine Corps court of inquiry, scheduled to convene in November in the killings of at least a dozen Afghan civilians last March by a special operations platoon after its […]

A Marine Corps general on Friday ordered criminal charges to proceed to separate courts-martial for a former battalion commander and an enlisted man involved in a battle in Haditha in […]

A journalist for The Washington Post was shot and killed while reporting from a volatile neighborhood in southern Baghdad on Sunday, the newspaper said. The killing, an isolated act that […]

The American military said on Friday that it was vigorously investigating a Thursday evening airstrike on a stronghold of insurgent leaders northwest of Baghdad that also killed nine children and […]

The Marine Corps announced yesterday that it would convene a court of inquiry to examine the circumstances surrounding the killings of several Afghan civilians by members of a Special Operations […]

If a private in the United States military fires on civilians, a clear body of law and a set of procedures exist for the military to use in investigating each […]