Crime and Courts

A Long Island man was stabbed and killed by his son while he was participating in a live video chat from his home, police said

A woman found dead in her southern New Jersey apartment last weekend was fatally beaten by her wife with a wine chiller, authorities said

Two people were killed and another seriously injured after a home invasion led to a police-involved shooting in Harlem, according to police and fire officials

Though his conviction was overturned, Robert Majors is still behind bar; his family is now pressuring the Queens DA to support his bid for parole, which could be granted as early as next month

The Bronx man arrived in Honolulu on Monday, and authorities became aware of his social media posts showing him sunbathing, with a surfboard, and walking around the area at night

An off-duty New York City police officer fired his weapon during a dispute on Long Island with a longtime friend, who was shot in the head and killed, authorities said. The 25-year-old man was shot in front of a house in Farmingdale around 8 p.m. Tuesday, Nassau County police said. The name of the victim and the name and age…

A man was taken into custody, but a motive for the shooting was not immediately clear

A man was taken into custody, but a motive for the shooting was not immediately clear

The woman does not believe she did anything wrong, denying that chalk can be graffiti, saying instead, “I think chalk is free speech”

Videos posted after an officer was recorded using a stun gun on a man stand in sharp contrast to tweets by the NYPD showing friendly officers handing out face masks and gently reminding people to stay 6 feet apart

Police on Long Island say they arrested a man who allegedly attacked a 67-year-old bus driver after he was told to wear a face mask or he would need to leave. Carre Handhel, 32, on Thursday got on a NICE bus at the Nassau Road and East Clinton Avenue stop in Roosevelt without wearing a protective face covering, according to…

The Supreme Court has sidestepped a major decision on gun rights in a dispute over New York City’s former ban on transporting guns

A lawyer for a college instructor who was accused last year of carrying gasoline and lighters into New York’s St. Patrick’s Cathedral says his client has died

The man accused of a stabbing spree at a rabbi’s home last Hanukkah is mentally unfit to stand federal trial on hate-crime charges, a judge ruled Monday.

Police are investigating a fatal stabbing at a Brooklyn home on Wednesday. They say a 26-year-old man walked into a bagel shop in Dyker Heights and told them that he had stabbed his father to death.

The man was arrested twice in the same day after going on violent rampages when he was told to wear a face mask while inside two different Wawa stores, police said

The NYC man sent a text to several people threatening to blow up the Central Park statue of Alice, the Mad Hatter and other guests at her famous tea party

The NYPD says a transgender woman was stabbed in the neck in Harlem early Saturday morning. Police say the 33-year-old victim was stabbed at the corner of E 128th Street and 3rd Avenue around 1:30 a.m. When officers arrived they found the woman with a stab wound in the neck and transported her to a nearby hospital in Harlem where…

Harvey Weinstein was transferred to a state prison in New York on Wednesday as he begins to serve a 23-year sentence for rape and sexual assault in his landmark #MeToo case

Officials say the body of a New York woman was found underneath a truck in a parking lot

Michael Avenatti wants out of a New York federal lockup

Federal prosecutors in New York City have hit R Kelly with more criminal charges

The man who allegedly wore a burqa and stole nearly $1 million in jewelry from a high-end Hudson Yards boutique is under arrest. The NYPD’s Major Case Squad arrested the man, who was said to have entered the Piaget store at 20 Hudson Yards with a woman, and then made off with hundreds of thousands of dollars in watches and…

A 22-year-old New York City man was charged and indicted on Tuesday, months after he allegedly drove his car over a curb and fatally struck a 1-year-old girl who was sitting inside a stroller next to her mother.

Police say two men in surgical masks stole nearly $260,000 at gunpoint from three racetrack employees in New York

Police on Wednesday released a sketch photo of the man suspected of shooting a pregnant woman inside her car in January. The 31-year-old woman was shot twice her in her hands but she and her baby were expected to be OK. The victim had just gotten back to her home on 181st Street in Springfield Gardens when a man in…

The prank involves a person being tricked into jumping in the air as two people on either side kick their feet out from under them

Robert Williams was arrested Feb. 9 after police say he ran out of bullets, laid down on the floor of a Bronx stationhouse and threw his pistol aside

A nurse accused of fatally stabbing her intoxicated husband in her New York apartments says she acted in self-defense

A federal appeals court has upheld a $21.7 million verdict against a Connecticut rabbi accused of repeatedly sexually abusing a teenage boy in the early 2000s

The convict was charged in the death of a woman whose body was found in a vacant home, but her head, feet and hands were removed and not inside the home

Jeff Flake has a direct message for the Republicans of New Hampshire: Someone needs to stop Donald Trump. And Flake, a Republican senator from Arizona, may stand up against the Republican president in 2020 — either as a Republican or an independent — if no one else does. “It has not been in my plans to run for president, but...

The Metropolitan Correctional Center was put on lockdown after officials received information that a gun could have been smuggled inside, two officials familiar with the matter tell NBC New York

The Metropolitan Correctional Center was put on lockdown after officials received information that a gun could have been smuggled inside, two officials familiar with the matter tell NBC New York