Crime and Courts

The murder trial of Michael Valva, the former NYPD officer charged in the death of his 8-year-old son, began with a bombshell revelation from the defense. Greg Cergol reports.

Police announced today that they have arrested two men for the million dollar heist, but a third suspect is on the run right now. Myles Miller reports.

Elizabeth Gomes was at the Howard Beach/JFK Airport train and subway station station, and said the man first tried talking to her, then followed her for a while — before slamming her into the wall and throwing her to the ground before he started mercilessly punching and kicking her.

The victim said that a homeless man came up to her out of nowhere while she was on her way to work and followed her for a while — before he slammed her into a wall and threw her to the ground, where he started mercilessly beating her

There’s new trouble for a Bronx man who just a few years ago made national headlines as a cause célèbre for bail reform advocates, as he’s now back behind bars and accused of attempted murder in an alleged street shooting near St. Patrick’s Cathedral in Manhattan.

A simple act of kindness became one of the last things a man ever did when he was stabbed to death in Brooklyn after holding a door open for his own killer, according to a witness.

A Yonkers man pled guilty to committing a violent hate crime in connection to an attack in which he punched a 67-year-old Asian woman more than 100 times, repeatedly stomping on her upper body as he hurled racial epithets at the helpless woman on the floor, prosecutors say. Tammel Esco, 42, pled guilty to assault in the first degree as…...

A landlord in Long Island is facing charges after a Monday morning fire that broke out at his property left one of his tenants dead and another two injured, police said. According to Nassau County Police, officers responded to a house fire on Front Street in Hempstead at 6:30 a.m. and found the building completely engulfed in flames. The intense&#8...

Prosecutors allege that a New Jersey deli that somehow became a $100 million stock was just a long-running fraud.

A man with a gun was seen on security video robbing an East Harlem deli, and then just moments later shot a man outside the store who he also tried to stick up, police said.

A suspect has been arrested and charged with murder in the deadly shooting at a Brooklyn nightclub that took the life of a mother in late August, police announced.

A Brooklyn man was sentenced to 30 years in prison after he plead guilty to several crimes related to a violent, unprovoked confrontation that culminated with the neck-stabbing of a police officer, and the shooting two others in 2020, prosecutors said. Dzenan Camovic, 23, of Flatbush, was sentenced Wednesday by Brooklyn Supreme Court Justice Danny ...

Two Brooklyn men are charged with stealing more than a half-million dollars in three armed robberies of New Jersey check cashing locations that saw female employees bound with zip ties, federal prosecutors announced Thursday. The men, 40-year-old Ramel Harris and 38-year-old Neville Brown, are also accused of canvassing check cashing locations in o...