Crime and Public Safety

Damian Sollas has been found unharmed in Huntington Station, according to police on Long Island, and was set to be released into the custody of Child Protective Services.

Attorney General William Barr met with a group of Jewish community leaders in Brooklyn. He said he was "extremely distressed" by an uptick in violence in Jewish communities.

Suffolk County Executive Steve Bellone says a committee will examine how the department dealt with abuse allegations against Michael Valva and his fiancée.

A Connecticut man charged with murdering his estranged and missing wife was rushed to the hospital and is in critical condition Tuesday after being found in his garage in distress.

A Florida man who repeatedly harassed parents of shooting victims at Sandy Hook Elementary School has been arrested for possessing the identification of one of the parents, authorities said.

Police in New Jersey used the geolocation feature on Snapchat to arrest a man on drug, weapon and harassment charges.

A 9-year-old boy was taken into custody after he stabbed his 5-year-old sister with a kitchen knife because he said he wanted her to die, authorities in Florida said.

Autopsy results indicate that a woman shot and killed her 17-month-old son in Rocky Mountain National Park before killing herself.

A Tennessee inmate is accused of smoking a joint during his court appearance on a drug possession charge on Monday morning.

Funeral services have been scheduled for a woman whose remains were found months after she disappeared from her home.

A psychiatrist has found Grafton Thomas incompetent to stand trial on federal hate crime charges stemming from a machete attack at a Hanukkah party that wounded five Hasidic Jews, Thomas's attorney said Monday.

The brother of rapper Nicki Minaj was sentenced Monday to 25 years to life in prison for sexually assaulting an 11-year-old girl at his Long Island home.

An autopsy Monday confirmed that a body found in Old Bridge near the area where authorities had been searching for a missing woman is that of Stephanie Parze.

The MTA has launched an aggressive campaign to combat hate on mass transit. 

Britain's Prince Andrew has provided “zero cooperation” to the American investigators who want to interview him as part of their sex trafficking probe into Jeffrey Epstein, a U.S. prosecutor said Monday.

A California man has been arrested in the decades-old killings of five of his infant children.