Investigations

The U.S. Attorney in Brooklyn says his office is going to ramp up prosecutions of gun offenders. Jonathan Dienst reports.

Kevin Goggin has a warning for New York voters: Technicalities can invalidate your vote, just like they did his. In 2018, Goggin was confused about his polling site. He had recently moved and wasn’t sure which of the two addresses matched his voter registration record. The Queens resident showed up to what he thought was his Astoria polling place, ...

Innovative projects are underway to combat the effects of poverty, COVID-19 and apathy and get out the vote. The I-Team’s Pei-Sze Cheng reports.

Robert Majors always insisted he did not rob an armored truck on the streets of Flushing in 1997. It took him more than 22 years, but he finally proved to a judge that he was wrongfully convicted. On Wednesday, Majors walked out of Green Haven Correctional Facility a free man.  He promptly hugged his niece with watery eyes. “I didn’t…...

New Yorkers have until Friday to register, the deadline in New Jersey is Tuesday. In Connecticut, the deadline is based on whether you register online or in person. News 4’s Linda Baquero reports.

A team of researchers at New Jersey Institute of Technology, Princeton University, and New York University has developed artificial intelligence they say can predict when inflammatory social media posts are actually coming from foreign internet trolls. The researchers developed a way of using machine learning to identify patterns that link accounts...

A federal judge ruled the 33-year-old NYPD officer accused of acting as an agent for the Chinese government poses a serious risk of flight and ordered him detained pending trial on Wednesday, according to court documents. In a 16-page detention memo, U.S. District Judge Eric Komitee ruled “no condition or combination of conditions will reason...

New ballots are out to a New Jersey town after a critical mix-up. Lynda Baquero reports.

Lynda Baquero reports.

Mailing your vote in this year? Lynda Baquero reports on how officials are keeping track of ballots – and keeping things secure.

An NYPD officer accused of acting as an agent for China will remain behind bars for now as a judge considers federal prosecutors’ appeal to a previous release order on a $1 million bond, a U.S. attorney spokesman said Friday. Baimadajie Angwang remains in custody at the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn after U.S. District Judge Eric ...

The original bill passed the state assembly with the goal of reducing incarceration rates for non-violent offenders convicted of drug and property crimes, many of whom are Black or Latino — but an added amendment to cut mandatory minimums for public officials left the bill dead in the water

A former student and Boy Scout is suing the Greek Orthodox Church and the Boy Scouts of America after he used a secret wire to record his alleged molester apologizing for inappropriate conduct