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An 18-year-old tourist from Michigan visiting Times Square with her family died in the rampage, while nearly two dozen people were hurt.

After Richard Rojas was kicked out of the Navy, he began sharing disturbing thoughts that were coursing through his head — that cars were following him, that aircraft were dusting him with chemicals, that his meals were poisoned. An uncle, Ramon Reyes, said Rojas offered a self-diagnosis: “You know that I’m crazy. And they’re not giving me the help...

The 62-year-old man accused of shooting 10 people and injuring more than a dozen others committed a “premeditated” rush-hour transit attack last month is expected to be arraigned Friday on federal terrorism charges.

Celebrity chef Mario Batali was found not guilty Tuesday by a judge in his Boston sexual misconduct trial. Batali is charged with indecent assault and battery over a 2017 incident at a Back Bay restaurant. Boston Municipal Court Judge James Stanton found Batali not guilty, saying the complaining witness had “credibility issues” and found there was not enough evidence to...

Prosecutors say Richard Rojas, a U.S. Navy veteran, used his car as a weapon in Times Square and injured over 20 people, killing one young tourist. NBC New York’s Chris Glorioso reports.

The celebrity chef is accused of forcibly kissing and groping a woman at a Boston restaurant in 2017 after inviting her to take a selfie together.

A New York City police sergeant who pleaded guilty to beating two handcuffed men in separate incidents was sentenced to probation Wednesday. Sgt. Phillip Wong, a transit bureau supervisor who was placed on modified duty after his arrest last July, pleaded guilty in a Manhattan court to charges of assault and attempted assault, both misdemeanors. Prosecutors asked that Wong be…

A New Jersey political consultant and one of the two men he paid to kill a longtime associate nearly eight years ago have admitted to the plot in court. Bomani Africa, 61, pleaded guilty to helping carry out the the murder-for-hire scheme Wednesday before a judge in federal court in Newark during a video conference. A day earlier, Sean Caddle,…

A federal appeals court has upheld the conviction and nine-year prison sentence of a former Newark police officer in alleged kickbacks to the former head of the city’s scandal-ridden water corporation. Janell Robinson, 46, was sentenced a year ago on mail fraud and conspiracy convictions and was ordered to pay restitution of about $289,000. She was accused of paying about…

A Los Angeles County sheriff’s deputy accidentally fired a gun inside a courtroom last month, potentially injuring a colleague and prompting an internal investigation.

A federal judge temporarily blocked the state of New York on Tuesday from forcing medical workers to be vaccinated after a group of health care workers sued, saying their Constitutional rights were violated because the state’s mandate disallowed religious exemptions. Judge David Hurd in Utica issued the order after 17 health professionals, including doctors and nurses, claimed in a lawsuit…

Hundreds are gathered in front of the City Hall on Wednesday to protest vaccination mandate in New York City. NBC New York’s Ida Siegal reports.

“Love and Hip Hop: Miami” star Prince, whose real name is Christopher Harty, was arrested after allegedly punching his girlfriend in the mouth. Harty was visibly emotional during his appearance before a judge in Miami-Dade County.

Joe Exotic, the subject of the Netflix docuseries ’Tiger King’, will be resentenced in his murder-for-hire case after an appeals court vacated his original sentence.

A federal appeals court has upheld a $25 million award against agribusiness giant Monsanto in a lawsuit that alleged a California man developed cancer from exposure to its Roundup weed killer

The 31-year-old man suspected of opening fire in Times Square on Saturday, wounding a 4-year-old girl and two other bystanders, made his initial virtual court appearance Thursday following his capture at a Florida McDonald’s.

A man charged with threatening to kill members of Congress testified on Tuesday that his disturbing social media rants were the work of a stoned and wasted provocateur — not someone actually out for blood. Brendan Hunt did not deny creating the posts. But he told jurors at his trial in federal court in Brooklyn he believed what he called “rhetoric”...

Just over a year after he was found guilty of rape and sentenced to 23 years in jail, disgraced movie mogul Harvey Weinstein filed an appeal Monday seeking to overturn the verdict, NBC News reports. Weinstein attorney Arthur Aidala says Weinstein did not receive a fair trial and the trial judge disregarded well accepted principles of New York law violating his constitutional...

Authorities have made an arrest in connection with a series of homicides of elderly women in Brooklyn, including a 78-year-old woman found strangled in her home last week, NYPD officials said Thursday. He’s expected in court Friday. Katherine Creag reports.

The Queens man was arrested after threatening to murder, or calling for others to murder, some of the top Democratic members of Congress and urging violence on Inauguration Day. NBC New York’s Erica Byfield reports.