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NEW YORK — Convicted drug lord Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman was denied a new trial Wednesday by the U.S. District Court Judge Brian M. Cogan. Defense attorneys sought a new trial back in February, saying jurors improperly followed media coverage. They cited a Vice News report alleging jurors were aware of potentially prejudicial claims that were excluded from the trial. → Read More
BROWNSVILLE, Brooklyn -- Three people were shot in Brooklyn Friday evening. The shooting happened just before 6 p.m. near 421 Chester St., in the Brownsville section of Brooklyn. Their conditions are not known. It is not clear what led to the shooting. This is a developing story. → Read More
MONTAUK, N.Y. -- A Medford mother was taken into police custody after the deaths of her 2-year-old twin daughters, who were found in cardiac arrest inside her car in Montauk Thursday afternoon. Police received a 911 call of a possible suicidal woman and her two children. → Read More
NEW YORK — E. Jean Carroll, a writer and advice columnist, claims Donald Trump sexually assaulted her in a dressing room of Bergdorf Goodman department store in Manhattan more than two decades ago. Carroll reveals shocking details of the alleged assault in Friday's New York Magazine. → Read More
CONCOURSE, The Bronx -- Assistant District Attorney Morgan Dolan announced in court Monday that the District Attorney's Office is willing to offer pleas to lesser charges to the eight remaining defendants in the Junior murder case. → Read More
CONCOURSE, the Bronx — Jury deliberations began in the "Junior" murder trial Thursday afternoon. After weeks of testimony, the jury must now determine the fate of five men accused of killing an innocent 15-year-old boy outside a Bronx bodega on June 20, 2018. . → Read More
THR BRONX -- They were just trying to rough "Junior" up — not kill him, so they don't deserve the most severe punishment. That's the pitch defense attorneys for four of the five murder defendant made to jurors on Monday in a last-ditch effort to convince them that only one suspect actually killed the teen. → Read More
Warning: Details of Friday's testimony are graphic in nature and may be disturbing to some. THE BRONX -- As they rested their case in the “Junior” murder trial Friday, prosecutors turned to the medical examiner who performed teen's autopsy, who offered graphic detail of the wound that killed the 15-year-old almost a year ago. → Read More
THE BRONX — The mother of slain teen Lesandro “Junior” Guzman-Feliz and officials with the Bronx District Attorney's Office came to a joint decision Thursday that she will watch the remainder of the murder trial from a separate "overflow" room. → Read More
NEW YORK -- A helicopter is in the Hudson River Wednesday afternoon, according to the FDNY. FDNY officials said it's unclear if the chopper crashed or had a hard landing. Crews are responding to the area near 34th Street and 12th Avenue. There is no word on injuries. → Read More
MANHATTAN -- Six female corrections officers have been charged with illegally strip searching women who visited the Manhattan Detention Center, the Manhattan District Attorney's office announced Monday. → Read More
LITTLE FERRY, N.J. -- A woman has been charged with murder after police say she stabbed her baby to death in New Jersey Thursday night. Bergen County prosecutors say 29-year-old Hiralbahen Bhavsar called 911 around 8:30 p.m. to say she was having a medical emergency at her Little Ferry apartment. → Read More
BATH BEACH, Brooklyn -- A child is in "bad shape" after being struck by a vehicle in Brooklyn Thursday afternoon, police say. It happened just before 1 p.m. in the area of Bay 25th Street and Benson Avenue in Bath Beach. Police say the child was transported to Coney Island Hospital. → Read More
BAY RIDGE, Brooklyn -- Human remains were found under the Brooklyn side of the Verrazzano-Narrows bridge in Bay Ridge Saturday morning. Police responded to Fort Hill Place and Dahlgren Place around 8 a.m. after being informed that possible human remains were located in the wooded area. → Read More
NEW YORK — Seagram's heiress Clare Bronfman, and another group member Kathy Russell, are expected to plead guilty to charges Friday in federal court in the NXIVM sex cult case, according to the office of the U.S. Attorney in the Eastern District of New York. → Read More
MANHATTAN — A New Jersey man who was arrested after he tried to enter St. Patrick’s Cathedral with several gallons of gasoline and lighters on Wednesday night, was also arrested at a church in New Jersey Monday night, and had booked a one-way ticket to Rome, police said. → Read More
WASHINGTON -- After years of investigating, the Department of Justice released a 400-page redacted copy of special counsel Robert Mueller's report Thursday. → Read More
NEW YORK -- Another NYPD officer has died of a 9/11-related illness, NYPD Chief of Detectives Dermot Shea tweeted Tuesday. Detective Lisa Rosado, who was recently retired from the NYPD's Real Time Crime Center, died nearly 18 years after the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center that claimed thousands of lives. → Read More
PARIS -- The spire atop the iconic Notre Dame cathedral collapsed amid a devastating fire at the Paris cathedral on Monday, just days before Easter Sunday. Images and video showed flames and thick plumes of smoke billowing up and around the spire, which is surrounded by scaffolding. → Read More
YONKERS, N.Y. -- A 12-year-old Yonkers boy is in grave condition and not expected to survive after he accidentally shot himself in the head with an illegal gun while he was home alone, police said Monday. → Read More