Crime and Courts

A woman was allegedly stabbed to death in her Santa Monica home today by her 43-year-old son, whom authorities believe has physical and developmental disabilities.

Police say a man was stabbed to death inside his Upper West Side building. News 4’s Gaby Acevedo reports. 

A medical examiner testified that it was Daniel Penny’s chokehold that was the sole cause of Jordan Neely’s death on a subway train. News 4’s Erica Byfield reports from Lower Manhattan. 

The Onion’s winning bid for Alex Jones’ Infowars platform is under review by a federal bankruptcy judge after Jones and his lawyers raised concerns about how an auction was conducted.

A representative for Rudy Giuliani says the former New York City mayor is relinquishing his cherished watches ahead of a Friday deadline to turn over his assets to two former Georgia election workers who won a $148 million defamation judgment against him. A judge last week ordered Giuliani to hand over a trove of prized possessions, including a 1980 Mercedes once owned by movie star...

A chocolate store at Grand Central Terminal was burglarized in the middle of the night, with the vandal leaving tens of thousands of dollars in damages, according to law enforcement.

A Venezuelan man “went hunting for females on the University of Georgia’s campus” earlier this year and ended up killing nursing student Laken Riley after a struggle, a prosecutor said Friday.

Two lawyers say they can no longer represent Rudy Giuliani in a legal fight over property he’s been ordered to give up to satisfy part of a $148 million defamation judgment against him. They asked a judge to remove them from the case, citing disagreements with the former New York City mayor. The request in federal court comes a week…

A New Hampshire woman will spend more than two years in prison, partly because she wanted to see Tom Brady and the Buccaneers play the Patriots.

Prosecutors allege two rival gangs were responsible for about 50% of all violent crimes in Washington Heights and Inwood the last few years. The gangs are linked to seven murders, with four of those killed having been innocent bystanders. NBC New York’s Marc Santia reports

A former Marine combat instructor testified that Daniel Penny misused a combat maneuver when he fatally choked Jordan Neely aboard a Manhattan subway, saying he appeared to have attempted a “blood choke” and should’ve known to let go after Neely lost consciousness.

Four bystanders were shot dead in the last 18 months because of gang rivalries in upper Manhattan, authorities said as they announced the indictments of dozens of people in a yearslong welter of gunfire, robberies, weapons deals, car crashes and more.

The August death of a 4-month-old boy in the Bronx during the summer was ruled a homicide, as the investigation continues, the NYPD announced Thursday. On Aug.10, at around 9:12 p.m., police responded to a 911 call of a child at Eagle Avenue. When officers arrived, according to police, they found an unconscious and unresponsive 4-month-old boy. The child was…

A 24-year-old man was convicted of attempted murder and other crimes in connection to the brazen shooting of a rookie police officer after an altercation in April 2023 in broad daylight in Jamaica, Queens, the local district attorney announced. Devin Spraggins, 24, was convicted of attempted murder in the first degree, assault in the first degree, aggravated assault of a…

A South Florida businessman accused in the February disappearance of his estranged wife in Spain is now facing a murder charge in the case.

California officials say four people were arrested after a person dressed in a bear costume faked attacks on cars for insurance payouts.

Families of Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting victims say the satirical news publication The Onion won the bidding for Alex Jones’ Infowars at a bankruptcy auction.

Federal prosecutors say some evidence that a judge had excluded from the bribery trial of former New Jersey Sen. Bob Menendez was inadvertently put on a computer given to jurors, but they say it should not affect the Democrat’s conviction. Prosecutors told a federal trial judge in a letter Wednesday that they recently discovered the error. They say the laptop...

A California teen accused of making hundreds of swatting calls and offering swatting-for-a-fee services pleaded guilty to making hoax threats to schools, religious institutions and government officials about mass shootings and bombings across the country.

A Miami man has pleaded guilty in a $16 million bribery and money laundering scheme involving his father, a former government official in Ecuador, prosecutors said.