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Jury deliberations are underway in Brooklyn for the R. Kelly sexual harassment trial. NBC New York’s Erica Byfield reports.

Character actor Michael K. Williams — famous for his role as Omar Little in the HBO series “The Wire” — was found dead in his Brooklyn apartment earlier this month.

The jury of seven men and five women started to deliberate the 54-year-old singer’s case on Friday.

The New York Renaissance Faire is back for its 44th year! From the food, fun and all the festivities – you’ll definitely have a medieval time. Paul Costabile caught up with some of our favorite characters to see all the fun things you can do at the Renaissance Faire this year.

R. Kelly’s lawyers defend him in court for a second day. Erica Byfield reports.

Among the injuries the medical examiner found on little Jayce Eubanks: a healing skull fracture, bite marks on both ears, multiple healing and recent fractures to his ribs — and an injury so bad to his stomach it put holes in it, leading to internal bleeding

R. Kelly got away with sexually abusing underage victims for more than two decades by ruling his inner circle enablers with an iron fist, a prosecutor told jurors on Wednesday at the R&B singer’s sex-trafficking trial. “The defendant set rules, lots of them, and he demanded complete obedience,” Assistant U.S. Attorney Elizabeth Geddes said during closing arguments in federal court in...

Closing statements have begun in the sex abuse and trafficking trial fro R&B star R. Kelly. Erica Byfield reports.

Police are investigating a grisly discovery under a Coney Island boardwalk — a decomposed body with duct tape around the mouth and rope tied around the hands, authorities said Tuesday. The body was found around 11:30 p.m. the previous night, when cops responded to a 911 call about a dead person under the boardwalk at Surf Avenue and West Fifth…

Adams reportedly filed improper tax returns on the Bed-Stuy brownstone he owns on Lafayette Avenue, with an article stating that Adams’ taxes show him “reporting zero days living at the property.”

Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams is prohibitive favorite to be the city’s next mayor. But there are new questions over whether he even lives in the city. Andrew Siff reports.

In a corruption crackdown, prosecutors claim nine contractors offered bribes to fix up NYCHA buildings since 2018. a NBC New York’s Jonathan Dienst shows how investigators caught the alleged acts s part of a sting operation.

The Brooklyn district attorney and the city’s Department of Investigation announced charges Monday against more than a half-dozen contractors they say allegedly tried to bribe NYCHA supervisors to win contracts in Brooklyn public housing developments. Nine contractors surrendered Monday morning to face charges of bribery in the third degree. If convicted, they face up to seven years in jail....

The man police believe to be responsible for violently kicking a woman in the chest, sending her falling down an escalator at a Brooklyn subway station, has been arrested.

Mack is best known for her role as a young Superman’s close friend on the series “Smallville.”

A 30-year-old Brooklyn woman faces murder and attempted murder charges for allegedly driving up on a sidewalk and hitting two pedestrians, one of them a 70-year-old woman who died of her injuries, police said Wednesday. Layla Adredini was driving a 2003 White Ford Explorer near Thomas Boyland and Pacific streets around 8:30 p.m. on Aug. 24 when she suddenly mounted…

A 4-year-old boy who was found unconscious in his bed and later pronounced dead over the weekend had blunt force trauma to his torso, according to the Medical Examiner. Aisyn Gonzalez of Brooklyn was taken to Woodhull hospital on Saturday, Sept. 11, after he was found unresponsive, the NYPD said over the weekend. It’s unclear who found him or what…

Twenty-one tons of sand are transforming the Brooklyn Academy of Music into a day at a beach for the staging of the global warming opera Sun and Sea.”

R. Kelly’s longtime assistant testified Monday that the R&B superstar was so paranoid, he once asked her to change into a robe to demonstrate she was not wearing a wire

The NYPD is searching for an individual they say entered a drive-thru window in the Bronx and stole money — a crime that was caught on surveillance video.

Police say a man kicked a 32-year-old woman down the escalator at a Brooklyn subway station last week following an argument. Authorities are now searching for the suspect who was seen on surveillance video going up the escalator at Barclays Center on Sept. 9. The video shows him turning around to kick the victim in her chest, sending her tumbling…