Police call fatal NYC shooting a hate crime
A gunman used homophobic slurs before firing a fatal shot point-blank into a man's face on a Manhattan street alive with a weekend midnight crowd, a ...
New efforts to curb cellphone theft
Disturbed by the nationwide epidemic of cellphone robberies and thefts, law enforcement officials across the country are looking to the wireless ...

Part found near WTC from type of jet hijacked 9/11
A rusted piece of airplane landing gear discovered wedged between a mosque and an apartment building and believed to be from one of the hijacked ...

Investigators push ahead in Boston bombing probe
With the Boston marathon bombing suspect in a prison hospital, investigators are pushing forward in the U.S. and abroad to piece together the myriad ...

Possible 9/11 plane landing gear part found in NYC
A rusted 5-foot-tall piece of landing gear believed to be from one of the hijacked planes destroyed in the Sept. 11 attacks has been discovered near ...

Police: Boston suspects planned to attack New York
The Boston Marathon bombers were headed for New York's Times Square to blow up the rest of their explosives, authorities said Thursday, in what they ...

NYC Mayor: Boston suspect said NY was next target
New York City officials say the Boston Marathon bombing suspects intended to blow up their remaining explosives in Times Square. Mayor Michael ...

Celebs address security concerns at annual NY gala
The Tribeca Film Festival was born out of the 9/11 terror attacks and celebs attending an annual Vanity Fair gala in New York City Tuesday to kick off ...
Feds in NY: Russian mob ran celebrity poker games
Nearly three dozen people were charged on Tuesday in what investigators said was a Russian organized crime operation that included illegal, ...

Veterans fight changes to disability payments
Veterans groups are rallying to fight any proposal to change disability payments as the federal government attempts to address its long-term debt ...

Federal trial provides window into NYPD practices
The right people at the right time in the right location. That phrase — repeated over and over in a secret recording of a police supervisor — is at ...
Trial opens for NYC stop-and-frisk challenge
Many of the tens of thousands of New Yorkers stopped, questioned and sometimes frisked by police in the past decade were wrongly targeted because of ...
Man sentenced for NYC synagogue bomb plot
An Algerian New Yorker was sentenced to 10 years in prison Friday for plotting an attack on New York City synagogues, even as his lawyers continued ...

Mom of NYC teen shot by police: Why was he killed?
Carol Gray, her head wrapped in a black scarf and her tearful eyes concealed by sunglasses, held up a photograph of her 16-year-old son, who was shot ...

NYPD program patrols inside private buildings
Jay Victorino was standing outside his mother's apartment when he was grabbed by police, and he says if she hadn't come downstairs to identify him he ...

NY marks 20th anniversary of World Trade bombing
The two terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center, eight years apart, converged Tuesday in the form of a piece of granite — part of a memorial to ...
Man charged with taking Dali work from NYC gallery
A Greek man proved inept at the art of thievery by swiping a Salvador Dali painting from a New York City gallery as security cameras rolled and, in ...
NAACP head: Even some in NYPD oppose street stops
The head of the NAACP said Sunday that even some members of the New York Police Department oppose the city's policy of street stops, with mostly ...

NYC plans to stop many marijuana arraignments
Many people arrested on low-level marijuana-possession charges in the nation's largest city will no longer be booked and held hours for arraignment, ...

Katie Couric bedeviled by strange 911 calls
Katie Couric is losing sleep over some odd 911 calls. New York City police said Thursday they had been called to Couric's Manhattan home several times ...
Conviction on lesser murder charge in NY cop death
A man accused of firing the shot that killed a police officer during a robbery gone wrong was acquitted Monday of intentionally murdering the officer ...

Lawyers: NYPD's Muslim spying violates 1985 pact
Civil rights lawyers urged a judge Monday to stop the New York Police Department from routinely observing Muslims in restaurants, bookstores and ...

Leading Democrat: Gun control faces uphill climb
Sen. Dianne Feinstein, who's leading the push to restore an assault weapon ban, acknowledged on Sunday that the effort faces tough odds to pass ...

Experts back NYC's link of gun laws, lower crime
In his nationwide effort for tighter gun control, Mayor Michael Bloomberg attributes historic crime lows in New York to strict gun laws that are ...