Mirela Iverac

Thousands of Haitians in New York will mark the second anniversary of the earthquake that devastated their homeland on Thursday.

The officer who chased down and arrested the man who allegedly shot and killed his partner, Peter Figoski, was promoted to detective Friday.

The sputtering economy has effected holiday shopping across the country. WNYC walked around Third Avenue in the Bronx, a commercial strip known as "The Hub," to see how shoppers were ...

The alleged shooter who gunned down officer Peter Figoski last week will face first-degree murder charges, Kings County District Attorney Charles Hynes announced Tuesday.

Mara Salvatrucha, otherwise known as MS-13, is considered one of the nation’s most violent gangs. In recent years, it has a stronghold in Long Island, where is has been considered a s...

Gari-Lynn Smith was instructed not to open the casket that held the remains of her husband, Sergeant First Class Scott Smith, who was killed in 2006 by a roadside bomb in Iraq, so she ordered an autopsy report to get closure.

Senator Kirsten Gillibrand said on Sunday that she will introduce legislation this week to crack down on corrupt gun dealers with the goal of eliminating the flow of illegal guns into New York.

The New York City’s Comptroller Office hired a former executive from MF Global to help manage the city’s pensions a month before the company led by ex-New Jersey  Governor Jon Corzine filed for bankruptcy in October.

After facing blistering criticism over their response to the December 2010 blizzard, the city's sanitation commissioner said on Wednesday that the department has beefed up its snow response ahead of this winter.

Drug task force officers shot two men late Tuesday in Inwood after they refused to drop their guns and pointed the weapons at the officers, police said.

Mayor Michael Bloomberg signed a new bill into law Tuesday that limits the city’s cooperation with federal immigration authorities on Rikers Island.

The Manhattan mother of suspected bomb plotter and al Qaida sympathizer said the allegations against her son have left her devastated.

The design for the Atlantic Yards tower, a 32-story building which would be the world’s tallest prefabricated structure, was unveiled on Thursday.

Mike Krzyzewski became Division I college basketball's all-time winningest coach Tuesday evening, when Duke beat Michigan State 74-69 at Madison Square Garden.

In the wake of the sexual abuse scandal at Penn State, policies and procedures for reporting such incidents on college campuses have come under more intense scrutiny.

The Grand Experiment ended early for Joe Paterno, legendary Penn State football coach, as he was fired on Wednesday evening. The man who holds the record for the largest number of wins in college football came from humble beginnings in Brooklyn’s Flatbush neighborhood.

Three years after the death of Ecuadorian immigrant, Marcelo Lucero, officials and immigration advocates say that Suffolk County has made significant strides in the addressing anti-im...

Nearly five years after Sean Bell was killed on his wedding day, his former fiancée, Nicole Paultre-Bell, said it was a “nightmare” to sit through a police disciplinary trial that rehashed the details of the night he was gunned down by police.

Nearly five years after Sean Bell was gunned down on his wedding day, two police officers who shot the unarmed man faced a police department’s administrative trial that determines the fate of their jobs.

Not only are police officers across the state overusing stun guns, many departments don’t have sound policies, training and guidelines for the use of the weapon, according to a new re...