Crime and Public Safety

Erik Menendez has been hospitalized, and his attorney wants him released from prison ahead of an upcoming parole hearing.

A Colombian porn actor was convicted last July of murdering two men in West London.

The teenager accused of hijacking an N train in Queens on July 17 is now in police custody following a similar incident in the Bronx.

Charles Byrd, 49, allegedly lived with his wife's corpse for weeks before being apprehended by authorities.

The Justice Department wants to interview Ghislaine Maxwell, who is serving 20 years for aiding Epstein’s abuse of underage girls.

A Florida man’s attempt to get buff ended up with him behind bars when deputies say he ran through a gym in the buff and tried to hide in a tanning bed at closing time.

Police stopped a driver at gunpoint in Midtown after they sideswiped and crashed into multiple vehicles on Tuesday morning, the NYPD said.

Etan Patz disappeared while walking to his Manhattan school bus stop alone for the first time on May 25, 1979. Pedro Hernandez was arrested in 2012. He was convicted of murder and kidnapping in 2017 and sentenced to 25 years to life in prison.

Ex-Kentucky officer Brett Hankison was sentenced to 33 months in prison on Monday.

A 39-year-old man has been taken into custody after throwing a 1-year-old girl down a garbage chute.

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio Cortez's campaign office was vandalized in red paint with a sign that accuses her of funding the genocide in Gaza.

An appeals court has overturned the guilty verdict of the man convicted of killing 6-year-old Etan Patz.

Over a dozen people were arrested after Suffolk County police busted an unauthorized "fight club."