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The number of children in New York City’s homeless shelters was nearly 5,000 higher on Sept. 2022 than the daily average in Sept. 2021, according to city data.

When police officers in Philadelphia made a typo or were unable to record the precise location for a crime committed in the city, the department would mark the incident with Disney World’s coordinates. After analyzing crime data from Philadelphia police, NBC10 Investigators found that more than 5,000 crimes were plotted at the vacation destination, including one that killed Shineka Crawford’s...

The rap star has to stay away from the two sisters at the heart of the 2018 case out of Queens and complete 15 days of community service.

Police are looking for a man they say threatened subway riders as their train approached the Museum of Natural History station in Manhattan and kept riding, leaving passengers on edge and cops warning people to look out for him. He also allegedly sexually attacked a woman on the B train, grabbing her and saying he could “touch anyone he wants”…

Face masks are still required in adult care facilities and other DOH-regulated health facilities across New York state, Gov. Kathy Hochul says — but the mask mandate for mass transit is over.

Police are warning subway riders to be on the lookout for a man they say groped a woman and made threats. Marc Santia reports.

Looted artifacts hiding in plain sight at the Met Museum will be returned to their original homes. Melissa Colorado reports.

Twenty-one artifacts that were once on display at the Met will soon be heading back to Italy — this after authorities traced back how these artifacts got into the United States in the first place. Investigators say it’s a story that involves looters, smugglers and organized crime. The Roman Empire might be long gone – but these 58 antiquities  –…

A 74-year-old woman is recovering after being sucker punched on the street when walking to Grand Central Terminal on Wednesday, Marc Santia reports.

New Mexico officials say a drunk man barreled an SUV through a parade that celebrates Native American culture and that least 15 people were injured, including two Gallup police officers. The state police agency said Friday they have no reason to suspect the crime was motivated by hate. The incident stoked fear in the crowd of thousands who lined the...

New York City accounts for more than a quarter of all monkeypox cases in what has become the largest-ever outbreak of the disease in America.

Treason, sedition, insurrection and coups are terms used to describe crimes and rebellions against the government. These are how they are defined according to The Marshall Project and the Center for Strategic and International Studies.

Researchers who have studied the patterns and typologies of serial killers are now turning their attention to identifying mass shooters before they act. One common trait among modern mass shooters is their familiarity with the “dark web,” a less-accessible corner of the internet not indexed by search engines, with several hidden communities that promote and display violent behavior and imagery....

New York this week became the second state to enact a law intended to force firearms manufacturers to adopt microstamping, a technology in which guns imprint tiny codes on ammunition cartridges as they are fired — creating a unique signature police could use to help solve crimes. Big questions remain, though, about whether the new law will actually result in…

With three mass shootings in as many weeks, many Americans are joining the call to end gun violence across the nation. News Four’s Adam Harding has the latest.

A California man has admitted plotting to firebomb the state Democratic Party’s headquarters.

Gun violence, which is at a 25-year high, and skyrocketing rents — NYC incomes would have to double to afford vacant units’ rent, a recent study found — drove down the most important index for New York City.

San Jose police have arrested two more family members of a young girl killed during an apparent exorcism inside a small San Jose church.

Investigators say a 60-year-old man who strangled his girlfriend died of a heart attack while burying her body in their South Carolina backyard.

A woman speaking in a video posted to YouTube is the mother of the girl who died inside a back-room San Jose church in September, NBC Bay Area sources confirmed Tuesday.