Crime and Courts

Disgraced former congressman George Santos has won a few months’ freedom from federal prison in order to come up with more than half a million dollars in court fines.

A 9-year-old girl was punched in the head and slashed on her hands as she tried to break up a fight that escalated into an attempted murder inside a Long Island home, according to police.

The lawyers filed papers in Manhattan federal court asking a judge to find that their clients should be given the rings marking New York Yankees’ victories in 1996, 1999 and 2000.

Federal authorities executed a search warrant Tuesday in St. Louis in connection with an investigation in Puerto Rico of a tourist accused of setting businesses on fire last week.

Prosecutors say the 36-year-old Santos has earned more than $400,000 from appearances on Cameo, the video-sharing website, and another $400,000 from a new documentary.

The former U.S. Marine acquitted of criminal charges in the death of a man on a New York City subway train is seeking to dismiss a lawsuit brought by the victim’s father. Daniel Penny’s lawyer, in a court filing Monday, said his client denies the lawsuit’s claims that he is culpable for civil damages for using a chokehold on Jordan...

A Miramar woman who laundered millions of dollars that were stolen in romance scams was sentenced to two-and-a-half years in prison, authorities said.

An ex-gang leader is filing to dismiss all the charges against him in the killing of rap music icon Tupac Shakur decades ago, citing constitutional violations.

The man accused of being drunk when his car struck and killed NHL star Johnny Gaudreau and brother Matthew as they biked near their South Jersey hometown the night before their sister was to be married pleaded not guilty in court on Tuesday morning. Prosecutors have offered a plea deal.

Two people were slashed after an argument on a platform at Grand Central Station, authorities say. One of the men was treated at the scene for cuts to his right arm after the incident on the northbound platform of the 4/5/6 line at the Manhattan hub around 1 a.m. Tuesday. The other was taken to a hospital with cuts to…

Four San Diego State University fraternity members pleaded not guilty Monday to criminal charges stemming from a skit that allegedly involved intentionally setting one of the defendants on fire, causing him to suffer third-degree burns.

The alleged incident is said to have occurred while the Grammy-nominated artist was on tour in Detroit in April, the lawsuit said.

A man in Queens is facing a litany of charges after allegedly driving under the influence with his three children in the car and hitting a school bus, seriously injuring two of his children, the local district attorney said. Junior Deslances, 42, was arraigned Friday on a 21-count indictment charging him with three counts of aggravated vehicular assault, three counts…

A man who authorities say fled to Trinidad and Tobago after shooting an 18-year-old in Canarsie in 2021 was extradited to New York City to face charges in his death, the Brooklyn District Attorney announced Monday. Anthony Regis-Ash, 24, formerly of Brooklyn, was arraigned Wednesday before Brooklyn Supreme Court Justice Donald Leo on an indictment in which he is charged…

President Joe Biden told mourners in New Orleans that they are not alone as he paid tribute to victims of the deadly New Year’s attack.

A woman who worked as a hairstylist for Fox Sports alleges in a lawsuit that former host Skip Bayless offered her $1.5 million to have sex with him.

President-elect Donald Trump is set to be sentenced in his hush money trial on Jan. 10, after the judge in the case released a surprise written decision Friday. But will Trump face any jail time, or any punishment at all, as a result of the sentencing? Here’s what we know so far.

Rudy Giuliani is testifying in a New York courtroom at a contempt hearing to decide whether he has dodged and deceived lawyers trying to recover a $148 million judgment for two Georgia election workers.

Lawyers for former New Jersey Sen. Bob Menendez are urging a judge to be lenient at his sentencing later this month for his conviction on bribery charges. On Thursday, the lawyers told the judge who will sentence him that the Democrat’s good deeds through an unusual life spent overcoming hardships should weigh in his favor.

The 42-year-old Texas man once impressed an Army commander with his attitude and work ethic, but over the past few years, his life began to deteriorate.