Crime and Public Safety

NYC high school student freed from ICE custody endured abysmal conditions

A 20-year-old New York City high school student from Ecuador released from a federal detention facility endured a frightening saga of summarily being whisked ...

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Queens mom was ‘shielding’ daughter when husband gunned her down: DA

The 45-year-old Queens woman gunned down by her estranged husband during a brazen, broad-daylight shooting was trying to protect her daughter when she bravely ...

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Former NYPD head Thomas Donlon says shoddy evidence storage jeopardizes criminal cases

Soon after he was named police commissioner by Mayor Adams, Thomas Donlon made it a priority to examine the evidence storage practices in NYPD ...

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Conn. man gets 65 years for killing girlfriend; baby daughter still missing

The search for a baby missing since 2019 continued on in Connecticut, the day after her father was sentenced to 65 years behind bars ...

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Ex-Army sergeant sentenced to 12 years for scalding 2-month-old son

A former U.S. Army sergeant has been sentenced to 12 years in prison, followed by four years of supervised release, after scalding his 2-month-old ...

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Man busted for random subway stabbing slashed own mom days before: prosecutors

The man busted for knifing a dozing 56-year-old Manhattan subway rider in the head during an unprovoked, blood-soaked attack had just been arrested for ...

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Gunman whose stray bullets killed Brooklyn mom and her pit bull gets 25 years

A gunman whose stray bullets killed a Brooklyn mother of four and her pet pit bull will spend 25 years behind bars after pleading ...

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Ex-MLB pitcher Dan Serafini convicted of murdering father-in-law

Former MLB pitcher Dan Serafini was convicted Monday of murdering his father-in-law and attempting to murder his mother-in-law in 2021. Serafini, 51, fatally shot ...

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‘Scandal’ star Columbus Short’s wife claims he choked her, abused her for years

Actor Columbus Short and his wife, Aida Abramyan , are embroiled in a nasty he-said, she-said domestic violence legal battle. After the former “ ...

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UC Berkeley professor shot dead in broad daylight in Greece

A professor at the University of California, Berkeley was killed after being shot multiple times in broad daylight in the outskirts of Athens, Greece, ...

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