Crime and Courts

Newborn twins have finally been laid to rest following a funeral service organized by the New York City police officers who are still working to find the person who killed the boys nearly a year ago

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

A grand jury indictment has come down almost exactly nine months to the day Queens officials say a reckless driver crashed into an Uber, killing a female passenger blocks from her home. Jason Liriano, 23, was allegedly driving a luxury vehicle through Ozone Park on Christmas Eve last year when he plowed into the Uber, causing his own car to…

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

A prosecutor in closing arguments at the sex-trafficking trial of R. Kelly has asked jurors to make the R&B superstar “pay” for his alleged sex crimes

A federal judge has imposed a 30-year prison sentence on a man who tied up his ex-girlfriend in her New York apartment and stuffed her in a suitcase where she suffocated and was found dead in Connecticut a week later

A federal judge has imposed a 30-year prison sentence on a man who tied up his ex-girlfriend in her New York apartment and stuffed her in a suitcase where she suffocated and was found dead in Connecticut a week later.

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

A 23-year-old Brooklyn man has been arrested in the Christmas Eve hit-and-run crash that left a 54-year-old Uber rider dead and others hospitalized, cops said. Jason Liriano was taken into custody on charges of criminally negligent homicide and leaving the scene of an accident resulting in death on Thursday, nearly nine months to the day that Ritawantee Persaud lost her…

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

A 22-year-old man is accused of killing his father and 12-year-old sister at home with his younger brother, 9, witnessing it.

A California judge said Scott Peterson must be re-sentenced in the 2002 death of his pregnant wife.

R. Kelly told a judge on Wednesday that he won’t take the witness stand at his sex trafficking trial, meaning he’ll avoid the risk of a potentially brutal cross-examination. “You don’t want to testify, correct?” U.S. District Judge Ann Connelly asked the R&B singer. He responded: “Yes, ma’am.” Lawyers had already said Kelly was unlikely to testify on his own behalf....

A man charged with second-degree murder in the death of his infant child in 2019 is now a fugitive alongside his husband after they both missed scheduled court dates.

What was once a missing persons case is now a homicide investigation. Pei-Sze Cheng reports from Florida and Sarah Wallace has the latest from Wyoming in the Gabby Petito case.

A 16-year-old pleads guilty to murdering 18-year-old Barnard College student, Tessa Majors. Marc Santia reports.

A mysterious stone cross has appeared near the area where the body of Gabby Petito was found over the weekend.

Police in North Port, Florida, resumed their search Tuesday for Brian Laundrie in the Carlton Reserve, while an autopsy is expected to be conducted to confirm the body found in a Wyoming park over the weekend is Gabby Petito as suspected.

A trio of crafty burglars swiped nearly $400,000 in handbags and clothing from a chic Manhattan boutique after breaking through two walls to gain access to the store, police said.

Protesters stood outside Carmine’s, the restaurant in the Upper West Side where a hostess say she was attacked over the vaccine mandate, on Monday after a group of women say the hostess used racist remarks. Later, the restaurant released video that they say proves the women attacked her without provocation. NBC New York’s Tracie Strahan reports.