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Earlier this week, a jury found former state Senator Pedro Espada Jr. guilty on four counts of theft from the health clinics he founded and ran. Now, the state is moving to close his Soundview Health Care Network for good.

The average homicide victim is a young black man with a prior arrest who was likely shot dead in a revenge killing during the overnight hours in Brooklyn, according to an NYPD report released Friday.

Drown your sorrows while your can: The LIRR is banning alcohol on overnight weekend trains leaving from Penn Station beginning this weekend.

Mayor Michael Bloomberg defended stop and frisk practices and said the NYPD will continue the practice that has faced increasing scrutiny.

FreshDirect is planning to accept delivery orders from every ZIP code in the Bronx — a reversal from what WNYC reported earlier this year when the company announced its planned relocation to the South Bronx.

After all the hype, Facebook's first day as a public company ended where it began. Its stock closed at $38.23, up 23 cents, after pricing Thursday night at $38 per share.

Track its first day on the market!

The prosecution's star witness underwent a withering cross-examination on Thursday at Roger Clemens' perjury trial. Brian McNamee is the only person with firsthand evidence that contradicts the baseball-pitching ace, but is he a believable witness?

Documents released by federal investigators show the bus driver involved in a deadly Bronx crash when returning with passengers from a Connecticut casino last year was hired in 2007 to drive a city bus.

Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly sent a letter to City Council Speaker Christine Quinn detailing the changes, as WNYC first reported last week. Quinn has been a vocal critic of the policy. Last year, more than 600,000 people were stopped, mostly black and Hispanic men.

A man accused of stabbing a New York City police officer in the head and nearly killing him may pursue an insanity defense.

A federal judge has granted class action status to a 2008 lawsuit accusing the NYPD of discriminating against blacks and Hispanics with its stop-and-frisk policies aimed at reducing crime. In the event a jury finds the NYPD is unlawfully making stops and racially profiling blacks and Latinos, class members will likely request oversight of the NYPD by a federal court monitor.

The NJ Devils rallied past the NY Rangers, 3-2, to tie the Eastern Conference finals at one game a piece.

Law enforcers say luxury car owners in New York City were "stalked" by thieves who were filling orders for buyers in Africa.

A judge says he expects to let prosecutors use at trial a recording of a phone call between a former Goldman Sachs board member accused of insider trading and a hedge fund founder.

U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor is back in the Bronx for New York University's commencement ceremony at Yankee Stadium.

Finding the city's attitude "deeply troubling," a judge granted class action status Wednesday to a 2008 lawsuit accusing the New York Police Department of discriminating against blacks and Hispanics with its stop-and-frisk policies aimed at reducing crime.

WNYC's morning news producers bring you a rundown of today's must-read stories.

New York is a city of specialists from foodies to academics, laborers to shopkeepers. Every Wednesday, Niche Market will take a peek inside a different specialty store and showcase the city's purists who have made an art out of selling one commodity. Slideshow below.

With a high-five to Mr. Met, Mayor Michael Bloomberg announced that the New York Mets will host the 2013 All-Star game at Citi Field – the first time the Amazin’s will be home to the Midsummer Classic since 1964 when the game was played at Shea Stadium.