A Manhattan judge has denied a motion to vacate the murder convictions of two best friends who said they were wrongfully accused of killing a French tourist in Times Square on New Year’s Day in 1987

Fotis Dulos, accused of murdering his long-missing wife, a suburban Connecticut mother of five, attempted to take his own life ahead of an emergency bond-related hearing Tuesday

The U.S. attorney in New Jersey and the head of the local FBI said Monday that the bomb found in the van of alleged domestic terrorists Francine Graham and David Anderson could have killed or maimed people up to five football fields away. They also said there was enough material in the van to make a second bomb. Four...

Fake accounts, which claim to be of U.S. rabbis, have been posting messages seemingly geared at pitting Jews against African Americans — but why aren’t social media sites stepping in sooner to stop them?

Fotis Dulos, the estranged husband of a missing mother of five whom he stands accused of kidnapping and murdering, posted his $6 million bond Thursday, a day after he was held in jail because of a paperwork issue, his attorney said. He was also given his phone back, which had been seized days earlier. He will be placed under house…

Families who laid their loved ones to rest at Lake Nelson Memorial Park in Piscataway, New Jersey, are demanding answers. “It just looks like a garbage dump,” said Judy Beekman, who has relatives buried there. Visiting them can be challenging, she says.

It was by chance that two brothers who own a smoke shop in Queens found video footage in a smashed video recorder when they returned to their store after spending more than a month in jail. At the brothers’ arraignment in late August, prosecutors said in court NYPD cops had recovered 40 pounds of cocaine during a raid and search…

After an I-Team investigation revealed a loophole in New York’s rape statute, an outraged lawmaker says she wants to amend the state’s Penal Code

David Anderson and Francine Graham were found dead inside JC Kosher Supermarket last week after a hate-driven domestic terror attack that killed four innocent people, authorities have said.

An extraordinary promise behind prison walls has led to freedom for an innocent man after 26 years wrongfully locked up

Claude Dary hasn’t held his own child since February 2018 — after his ex-girlfriend took their son to her native Kenya, and hasn’t returned

NYC food carts have been issued letter grades for nearly a year, but where they are cleaned, kept and often stocked is a mystery to hungry New Yorkers

Fotis Dulos, accused of murdering his long-missing wife, a suburban Connecticut mother of five, attempted to take his own life ahead of an emergency bond-related hearing Tuesday

Fotis Dulos, the estranged husband of a missing mother of five whom he is now charged with murdering, will not be out on bail Wednesday because of a paperwork issue, his attorney said. Dulos is charged with capital murder, murder and kidnapping in the apparent death of Jennifer Dulos of New Canaan, who has not been seen since she dropped...

NBC 4’s new podcast Question Authority is a 6-part series on New York City’s public housing crisis, told by the people who live in NYCHA apartments. Hosted by investigative reporter Chris Glorioso, it is the first podcast series to delve into how the county’s largest housing authority got so broken down and what can be done to fix...

Araceli Quintero says she was trying to be a peacemaker in her New York high school last year when trouble erupted.

A judge set an April trial date Monday for two jail guards accused of failing to make required checks on Jeffrey Epstein the morning he died

Nassau County’s top prosecutor is sounding the alarm on immigrants who are afraid to report crimes and she thinks it’s connected to the crackdown on illegal immigration.

If you want to get an idea of how the vaping crisis is shaping our schools, look no further than East Hampton High School in Long Island.

A former inmate, now cleared of murder, is accusing New York State prison employees of cruelty and abuse by locking him in a cell with no access to a working toilet for more than 2 months.

The owner of the doomed limo that crashed Saturday, killing 20 people in upstate New York, has a history with the FBI.

A Brooklyn man who spent more than 23 years in prison has been freed on bail after a judge threw out his murder conviction, pointing partly to the role of a detective whose tactics have come under scrutiny

Two correctional officers responsible for guarding Jeffrey Epstein when he took his own life have been charged in connection with the federal investigation into the financier’s death, a senior law enforcement official tells News 4.

Suffolk County Police continue their search by digging up a back yard in Brentwood for a missing Long Island woman that disappeared in 1983

A growing number of accounts on social media are posting memes geared toward teens featuring subtly racist, misogynistic and anti-Semitic content

The State AG says Northern Leasing is “hijacking” the limited resources of the NY State court system to scam small businesses

A mother is seeking justice for her son after a staff member at a New York school for students with autism took photos of her son in the bath

Federal agents raided a Long Island tech firm early Thursday and arrested its top executives amid concerns the company was selling Chinese-made equipment to the U.S. military while claiming it had been manufactured in the United States.

After a Long Island attorney was found dead, having been strangled and her body left in bushes, those closest to her are still looking for answers

Governor Andrew Cuomo’s program to help more prisoners apply for clemency in New York State appears to be stalled and the governor’s office is declining to explain why

A retired NY cop believes that his personal guns were seized as retaliation for his whistleblower complaint against the county police academy

Mayor Bill de Blasio’s security detail was used on multiple occasions to ferry his son Dante to college at Yale, even in cases where his parents were not present, a law enforcement source familiar with the matter told News 4.

According to records obtained by the I-Team, HUD has paid rental benefits for more than 700 dead tenants — dozens of them in the New York City region.

New Jersey’s State Attorney General said his office was too slow in stepping up corruption fighting efforts, but is now pressing full steam ahead to work with whistleblowers on allegations brought to his office.

Results from new DNA testing show a mystery person’s genetic material inside the getaway van that was used in a violent 1997 armored car robbery.

A local mayor is calling for a federal criminal investigation into New Jersey’s Deputy Senate Majority Leader amid allegations he repeatedly failed to show up for work as Linden’s prosecutor.

The former NYPD sergeant who shot a man he claimed to be a robber while off-duty last summer — then was caught on camera planting a knife at the scene and then retrieving it — pleaded guilty to evidence tampering

A New York state judge has been arrested on obstruction of justice and conspiracy charges in connection with a multi-million dollar fraud scheme at the Municipal Credit Union, law enforcement officials said.

Multiple sources in North Bergen tell NBC 4 public workers may be committing voter fraud by registering to vote in Hudson County, in order to vote in North Bergen elections

After the I-Team reported on questions of voter fraud in North Bergen, officials from two offices declined to say if their offices were investigating the allegation

A Delta Airlines employee has been arrested in connection with the case of $250,000 in cash that apparently vanished from John F. Kennedy Airport as it was being transferred onto one of the airline’s flights en route to Florida, a law enforcement source close to the investigation tells News 4.

One month into his job, NYCHA Chair Gregory Russ said he will seek to change the rules that restrict how unionized workers at the beleaguered public housing agency operate. He stopped short of saying he’ll request contract “concessions.”

A convicted killer’s battle to clear his name has taken a new turn after a judge ordered a hearing to assess the impact of newly discovered DNA evidence that appears to exonerate the former NYC correction officer

An Upper East Side medical office is scrambling for answers after the NBC New York I-Team found hundreds of their medical files thrown out with the trash

Six years after a former boxing champion suffered catastrophic brain damage in a Madison Square Garden bout, his family is one step closer to new reforms that might protect future fighters

Al Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri put out a video Wednesday to again cheer the slaughter of thousands of Americans on 9/11 18 years ago

A law that was designed to protect immigrant women from domestic violence, is being assailed by critics as a fast track to getting citizenship

Blood stains. Missing seats. A mystery trip to an auto detailer. License plates dumped down a storm drain. The 38-page affidavit filed by Connecticut State Police in the arrest of Fotis Dulos reads like a crime novel.

A Hempstead town official was arrested Thursday in connection with an ongoing probe out of the Nassau County district attorney’s office, the I-Team has learned.

Sealed court records contain the names of hundreds of third parties who were mentioned in a civil case involving sexual abuse allegations against the late financier Jeffrey Epstein, a federal judge said Wednesday.

A couple was granted $93,000 after Superstorm Sandy to help rebuild their home — now the program that gave them the money is asking for it back

A 19-year-old New York City man has been arrested after telling undercover agents his aspirations to conduct a violent attack in the name of ISIS, senior law enforcement officials said.

After an I-Team investigation revealed a loophole in New York’s rape statute, an outraged lawmaker says she wants to amend the state’s Penal Code

The top prosecutor in Manhattan is warning women that if they drink to the point of intoxication, New York’s sex crime statutes may not protect them from rapists.

Doctors around New York City are concerned about a delay in shipments of flu vaccines — right ahead of the start of a new school year.

The NYPD is sending a clear message to its 36,000 rank-and-file officers following a tumultuous week: We’ve got your back.

NYPD Commissioner James O’Neill has fired the police officer accused of using a banned chokehold on Eric Garner in 2014, siding with the departmental trial judge who recommended termination earlier this month.

A rising football star on Long Island was ruled to have killed himself by the medical examiner after two other people in the room at the time of the shooting said he pulled out the gun and fired

Metropolitan Correctional Center’s warden told a judge that an internal investigation into Jeffrey Epstein’s first presumed suicide attempt has been completed as more questions rise following the accused pedophile’s death in Manhattan federal jail cell.

The number two official at the NYPD has accepted a judge’s ruling that controversial officer Daniel Pantaleo should be fired for his role in Eric Garner’s death in 2014

The New York City medical examiner’s office has determined Jeffrey Epstein died by suicide, unveiling its autopsy findings a day after a person familiar with the case confirmed to NBC News that the wealthy financier had a broken hyoid bone.

An autopsy has found the hyoid bone in Jeffrey Epstein’s neck was broken, a person familiar with the matter told NBC News Thursday. Two other sources familiar with the investigation say there’s still no indication of foul play.

In 2013, offsite airport parking lot owners were told by Port Authority they need to pay for the privilege of transporting passengers to the three NYC airports — but they say they have gotten no privileges so far

Mayor de Blasio is trying to make amends Thursday with a few dozen children who missed out on weeks of summer camp fun because their community center in East Harlem housing was overrun with rats and maggots.

Amid rising concerns about police officer suicides, an unprecedented survey by the News 4 New York I-Team has found there’s a startling need for mental health services that’s not being met.

New York City’s top cop is asking members of the NYPD to seek help if they need it in the wake of the suicides of two officers in less than 24 hours.

A fourth NYPD officer has died by suicide in the last three weeks, escalating a recent crisis that has caused all levels of police leadership to speak out on the need for cops to look after their mental health and that of their colleagues.

Fear of ending one’s career is the main reason officers don’t come forward with issues of mental health, which the NYPD Commissioner has acknowledged

Investigators are looking into whether two guards tasked with checking on Jeffrey Epstein at the Metropolitan Correctional Center the night of his death may have been sleeping when the accused sex trafficker apparently hanged himself in his cell, two officials familiar with the investigation tell NBC New York.

Anthony Sylvester, a high school military standout and Harvard graduate, was found dead in June in a rundown Brooklyn apartment building — but his family has no idea what he was doing so far from his Ozone Park home

A spokesperson for the FDNY tells NBC News it has completed its review of a 4chan message board posting regarding Jeffrey Epstein’s death and determined it did not come from within the department.

Federal agents raided Jeffrey Epstein’s mansion in the U.S. Virgin Islands Monday searching for evidence related to the wealthy financier’s past sex-trafficking crimes, an FBI spokesman told NBC 4.

Amid revelations about the circumstances around Jeffrey Epstein’s death, federal authorities have intensified parallel inquiries into what went wrong at the Manhattan jail where he was behind bars and who now may face charges for assisting or enabling him in what authorities say was his rampant sexual abuse of underage girls.

The frustration and confusion continue for parents whose children have been subjected to disgusting conditions at a summer camp inside a NYCHA community center in East Harlem, as plans to move the camp came to a screeching halt following the latest attempt to relocate it.

Guards on Jeffrey Epstein’s unit were working extreme overtime shifts to make up for staffing shortages the morning of his apparent suicide, a person familiar with the jail’s operations told The Associated Press.

The apparent suicide of Jeffrey Epstein has brought new scrutiny to a federal jail in New York that, despite chronic understaffing, houses some of the highest-security inmates in the country.

Jeffrey Epstein was not on suicide watch when he was found dead in his Manhattan jail cell on Saturday, sources tell NBC 4 New York, and the FBI says it plans to investigate.

Eighty percent of the approximately 2,800 affidavit ballots cast in the 2019 Democratic primary for Queens DA were disqualified — but it’s not clear how many of the voided voters still don’t realize their ballots didn’t count Voided Voters Fume at NYC Elections Board

The I-Team was given a preview of a 106 page report that notes a breakdown from the Executive to local levels for New York housing code enforcement

The lawyers for R. Kelly blasted the accusers in his child sex trafficking case “disgruntled groupies” after their client was denied bail Friday afternoon.

Leonard Miles says he’s tired of trying to prove he’s a real cop after prosecutors in two New Jersey counties have charged him with impersonating a police officer