A dog that was ordered to be euthanized despite a pardon issued by Maine’s governor could get a second chance at life as a sled dog.

A man has been sentenced to 75 years in prison in the hatchet murder of his aunt inside her New Jersey apartment two years ago. Camden County prosecutors said Friday that 29-year-old Shane Whipple will be required to serve 63 3/4 years in prison before he will be eligible for parole. Prosecutors say he had been staying with 44-year-old Jennifer…

A New York judge has struck down a law that would have created a state commission tasked with investigating prosecutorial misconduct. Justice David Weinstein declared the law unconstitutional in a decision issued Tuesday, marking a win for a prosecutors’ association that sued over the statute. The law would have set up an 11-member commission to probe misconduct claims against New…

Nassau County’s top prosecutor is sounding the alarm on immigrants who are afraid to report crimes and she thinks it’s connected to the crackdown on illegal immigration.

Federal and local authorities arrested a drug dealer in Queens and seized 12 pounds of cocaine, much of it disguised as fruit-flavored candy, prosecutors said.

A New Zealand jury on Friday found a man guilty of murder in the death of 22-year-old British backpacker Grace Millane. Millane died last December on her birthday after meeting the man through the dating app Tinder, going out for drinks with him, and then returning to his hotel apartment in central Auckland. Prosecutors said the man strangled Millane to...

A 27-year-old New Jersey woman has pleaded guilty to stabbing her identical twin sister, a mother of three, to death during a drunken fight on the second day of summer, according to a published report.

A scandal over alleged sexual molestation and abuse at the Vatican’s youth seminary is growing, with more former papal altar boys alleging inappropriate behavior by priests inside the Vatican walls. Le Iene, an Italian investigative television program, plans to air the new allegations Sunday; the show provided the broadcast to The Associated Press ahead of time. The Vatican announced in...

A man who allegedly used baseball bats and a knife to kill his parents in their home has been extradited to New Jersey to face murder charges

Two associates of Rudy Giuliani pleaded not guilty on charges they used straw donors to make illegal campaign contributions to politicians and committees to advance their business interests.

An Astros fan is facing an assault charge after being accused by authorities of slapping a New York Yankees fan after the two got into an argument

Judge Tammy Kemp, who hugged Amber Guyger and gave her a Bible after the conclusion of Guyger’s murder trial, is coming under scrutiny over whether she crossed an ethical line.

Officials now believe that Jacquline Terrulli’s remains were moved from the burned-down home, but haven’t been able to locate them yet as the search has gone on for weeks. NBC New York’s Brian Thompson reports.

As fans eagerly awaited the opening of the new “Joker” movie outside theaters across the city, NYPD officers were right alongside with them, for different reasons

A man accused of fatally shooting of a teenage girl at an Atlantic City home has been indicted on aggravated manslaughter charges

Car lovers from around the world splashed out more than $27 million at an auction Sunday for dozens of luxury cars seized from the son of Equatorial Guinea’s president in a Swiss money-laundering probe. The 25 lots sold by auction house Bonhams included a white-and-cream 2014 Lamborghini Veneno roadster that cost the buyer 8.28 million Swiss francs ($8.4 million), comprising...

An active search is underway on the Jersey shore for what the Monmouth County prosecutor believes is the body of a 65-year-old woman who has been missing since her 6,000-square-foot mansion burned down more than two weeks ago.

A former state attorney general from Mexico has been sentenced to 20 years in prison in a U.S. drug-trafficking case.