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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.

Court officials across the country say a low turnout of people summoned to jury duty is derailing plans to restart trials for the first time since the coronavirus pandemic began

With scores of disciplinary records already online, a federal judge on Friday said she is lifting a temporary restraining order that had barred New York City’s police watchdog agency, police department and other entities from making such information public. Judge Katherine Polk Failla’s ruling, a blow to public safety unions seeking a way around a new state transparency law,...

I-Team chief investigative reporter Jonathan Dienst reports on what it is like inside a federal court during the pandemic.

A New York City man has been sentenced to life in prison without possibility of parole in the beating death of his girlfriend outside her Pennsylvania home more than three years ago. Edia Lawrence, 21, was convicted in March of second-degree murder, robbery, burglary and related crimes in the March 2017 death of 19-year-old Ahshantianna Johnson in Mount Wolf. During…

Mayor Bill de Blasio announced new measures to hold NYPD accountable and for more transparency. Tracie Strahan reports.

Legal documents, which include the names of domestic violence victims and children caught in custody battles, have been left unmonitored in open boxes for weeks inside the lobby of the San Francisco Superior Courthouse, despite state laws that require the court to keep such information private.

Movie producer Harvey Weinstein was sentenced to 23 years in prison for sexually assaulting a former production assistant and raping an aspiring actress.

A New York jury found former Hollywood studio boss Harvey Weinstein guilty of third-degree rape in the case of Jessica Mann and guilty of first-degree criminal sexual assault in the case of Mimi Haleyi, acquitting him of the two most serious counts of predatory sex assault. Those two counts of predatory sex assault, which carried a max sentence of life…

A New York jury has found Harvey Weinstein guilty of rape and criminal sexual act in his court case; he was acquitted of the most serious charges.

Harvey Weinstein was found guilty Monday on two of the five charges brought against him in federal court. The jury of five women and seven men reached the verdict after five days of deliberations.

The defense team for Harvey Weinstein rested without ever calling the disgraced Hollywood movie mogul to the witness stand, saying it was not necessary despite him wanting to testify. NBC New York’s Erica Byfield reports.

A 21-year-old New Jersey man was arrested Thursday for bribing a U.S. Postal Service employee to steal check books, credit cards and electronics from the mail, federal prosecutors say. Jabre Beauvoir, 21, of Elizabeth, New Jersey, is charged by complaint with one count of bribery and one count of receiving stolen mail, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced. The bribery...

A judge whose ethics were called into question after he jailed a woman he accused of being disrespectful in court will avoid being suspended from the bench. New Jersey’s Supreme Court issued a public censure Thursday of Newark Municipal Court Judge Marvin Adames. A state panel on judicial conduct had recommended last year that Adames be suspended without pay...