Jessica Perez

A Bronx man who made national headlines after he chose to stay on Rikers Island rather than plead guilty to a crime he said he didn’t commit is now suspected of throwing a glass bottle at a van occupied by four girls, the NYPD says.

A Bronx man who made national headlines after he chose to stay on Rikers Island rather than plead guilty to a crime he said he didn’t commit has been arrested and charged with robbery and assault, the NYPD says — but a family spokesman maintains the teen is the one who was attacked.

A convicted killer’s clue to the I-Team has prompted law enforcement to renew a search in Suffolk County for the body of a long missing Long Island woman whose head was found in the Florida Everglades more than a decade ago.

The Bronx teen who made national headlines for deciding to stay on Rikers Island rather than pleading guilty to a crime he was adamant he didn’t commit is now headed to college — with a clean slate.

The Bronx district attorney’s office will move to dismiss a July 2016 indictment against a 17-year-old boy who stayed behind bars at Rikers for about a year rather than plead guilty to a shooting he has said he did not commit.

A 20-year-old Bronx man claims he was a secret witness who was pressured by police officers to lie against multiple suspects, including 17-year-old Pedro Hernandez, whose case has generated national attention.

A Bronx teenager who decided to stay behind bars on Rikers Island rather than admit to a shooting he says he didn’t do got out on bail Thursday night.

A Bronx teenager who has been behind bars for more than a year for a crime he insists he didn’t commit is getting out after an I-Team investigation.

The wife of disgraced former Los Angeles Clippers owner Donald Sterling is looking for a way to lift his lifetime ban from the NBA and clear his name, NBC News reported. Sterling was banned for life from the league, and even prohibited from attending games, after tapes of him making racist comments surfaced in 2014. Sterling, who assailed the NBA...

Former Los Angeles Clippers owner Donald Sterling has dropped a lawsuit that claimed the NBA, his wife and others conspired to illegally sell the team for $2 billion.Sterling’s lawyer, Bobby Samini, says he filed a request Friday to have the federal appeals case dismissed. Samini says a settlement was reached. He won’t reveal details but says Sterling’s “very happy with...

A 19-year-old UC Berkeley student has been identified as one of the 20 hostages killed in an attack at a cafe in Bangladesh’s capital of Dhaka, officials said.

A vast and voracious wildfire in Kern County has scorched 57 square miles, destroyed at least 100 homes and killed an elderly couple as they tried to flee, authorities said Saturday.

The number of trees in California’s Sierra Nevada forests killed by drought, a bark beetle epidemic and warmer temperatures has dramatically increased since last year, raising fears they will fuel catastrophic wildfires and endanger people’s lives, officials said Wednesday.

A firefight continues against a massive wildfire that has charred 7,648 acres in Santa Barbara County amid the start of a hot and windy weekend.

The father of a Cal State Long Beach student who was gunned down during the November terrorist attacks in Paris filed a lawsuit against Twitter, Facebook and Google, alleging the social media sites have allowed terror groups to use their technology to spread propaganda and recruit members.

A car matching the description of a vehicle a man drove from Minnesota to Los Angeles to gun down his former professor at UCLA has been been found a few miles from the school, two days after the murder-suicide, police said.

A convicted felon on the FBI’s 10 Most Wanted Fugitives list accused of killing his pregnant girlfriend and her unborn baby in Los Angeles last month has been captured, according to FBI officials.

A pit bull named Pirate was out of the shelter Tuesday after the story went viral of a 6-year-old boy with autism reading to him.

More than two dozen people were taken to the hospital Sunday after a church bus traveling from a women’s retreat in Big Bear crashed in the San Bernardino Mountains, officials said.