Ailsa Chang

As prosecutors attempt to persuade the court that a confidential informant only facilitated a plot designed and pursued by four hate-filled anti-Semites, defense lawyers will argue th...

FBI Special Agent Robert Fuller told the court how he instructed a confidential informant to visit a Newburgh mosque to find radical Muslims. The agent testified he supplied the four ...

The trial has opened for four Newburgh men charged with planning to blow up Bronx synagogues and shoot down military planes at Stewart International Airport last year. In opening arguments in Manhattan federal court, prosecutors said that hours of videotape will show the men plotting details and praying for success.

The NYPD is reviewing how they responded to the domestic violence call all from the ex-girlfriend of Gov. David Pateron's aide. The purpose of the review is to determine if "the response was adequate," according to NYPD spokesman Paul Browne.

The Manhattan District Attorney's office bought itself more time to investigate its case against the man who survived an August 8 police shootout in Harlem that left one man dead. Prosecutors now have 45 more days to bring a grand jury indictment against Angel Alvarez, who is currently facing three felony charges for weapons possession.

In a preliminary hearing, Manhattan Supreme Court Judge Bonnie Wittner found reasonable cause to believe Alvarez committed a felony, but she didn't specify exactly what felony he may have committed. Her decision moved back the deadline for a grand jury indictment.

The man who survived a Harlem police shoot-out with more than 20 bullet wounds is expected in court again Thursday. But Angel Alvarez's lawyer says any attempt to charge his client wi...

Disabled riders and advocates have filed a lawsuit against the MTA, saying its June 27 transit cuts hit disabled riders harder than other commuters.  

Two wheelchair users and a commuter who relies on a walker joined with disability rights organizations to say the MTA has violated federal law. They say because so few subways have elevators, disabled riders don't have the same alternatives as riders without disabilities.

Gov. David Paterson has signed into law a bill that makes intentional strangulation a crime.

Prosecutors continue to investigate the Harlem gunfight that left one man dead and another with more than 20 bullet wounds. But in the wake of the shootout, Harlem residents say the New York Police Department needs to do a better job policing street gatherings.

The man police say opened fire in a shoot-out with NYPD officers in Harlem this month has been charged with three felony counts of criminally possessing a weapon. Manhattan District Attorney Cy Vance declined to bring attempted assault or attempted murder charges against Angel Alvarez, 24, whom police say shot at officers first before they responded by firing 46 shots.

As a top aide to Gov. David Paterson faces charges for domestic violence, WNYC has learned from New York state court sources that the incident touched off an internal inquiry about ...

David Johnson faces misdemeanor charges for assault, menacing, and criminal mischief and one charge for harassment.

A top aide to Gov. David Paterson has been charged with assault for a domestic violence dispute that kicked off an evidence-tampering investigation against the governor and forced Pat...

Gov. David Paterson’s aide, David Johnson is expected to appear in New York Criminal Court in the Bronx Thursday to hear misdemeanor assault charges against him for an alleged attack on his ex-girlfriend Sherr-una Booker last Halloween. Hordes of reporters have been camped outside the Bronx County District Attorney's Office and inside the courthouse waiting for the latest developments.

Harlem residents, clergy and elected officials gathered at Reverend Al Sharpton's National Action Network headquarters on Tuesday night to discuss the recent wave of violence that cul...

The Associated Press is now reporting that a New York City police gun probably killed 23-year-old Luis Soto in a Harlem shootout Sunday morning. Only one of the six bullets that hit Soto was retrieved from his body, and officers say that bullet was consistent with bullets from NYPD guns.

The Associated Press is now reporting that a New York City police gun probably killed 23-year-old Luis Soto in a Harlem shootout Sunday morning. Only one of the six bullets that hit Soto was retrieved from his body, and officers say that bullet was consistent with bullets from NYPD guns.

It’s been more than a month since the New York City MTA cut 38 bus lines and reduced service on another 76. Now, disability rights activists say they’re preparing several lawsuits because, they say, disabled New Yorkers have been hit particularly hard by the cuts.

A federal judge is blocking the city from hiring new firefighters, based on a 2007 hiring test, which he says was unfair to black and Hispanic applicants. The New York City Fire Department says it needs to hire 300 new members before the end of August. But Judge Nicholas Garaufis says the city can only do this if it can prove its hiring needs are so urgent that they justify using a test that Garuafis describes as "invalid."

A federal judge is blocking the city from hiring new firefighters, based on a 2007 hiring test, which he says was unfair to black and Hispanic applicants. The New York City Fire Department says it needs to hire 300 new members before the end of August. But Judge Nicholas Garaufis says the city can only do this if it can prove its hiring needs are so urgent that they justify using a test that Garuafis describes as "invalid."