WNYC Newsroom

A former chairman of one of Egypt's top banks was awaiting arraignment Tuesday after he was arrested on charges of sexually abusing a maid at a posh Upper East Side hotel, cops said.

Wall Street Journal reporter Kelly Evans says that this week's monthly jobs report will reveal data on unemployment rates, the housing market and other key points that could lead to...

The project manager who developed the CityTime payroll system has been arrested on charges that he received at least $5 million in kickbacks.

Coast Guard officers reenlist at the World Trade Center work site, part of the various Fleet Week activities around the city.

Two NYPD officers have been acquitted of rape but were convicted of official misconduct in trail of a woman who accused them of raping her as they helped her into her East Village a...

Dominique Strauss-Kahn, the former IMF chief, moved from a temporary apartment in the Financial District to a brick townhouse in Tribeca late Wednesday where he will remain under ho...

Jurors in the trial of two NYPD officers accused of rape requested a read back of the accuser's testimony during the fourth day of deliberations.

The New Jersey Supreme Court has ordered the Christie Administration to restore $500 million in state education aid to the state's poorest districts.

Grammy Award-winning songwriter Joseph Brooks was found dead in his Manhattan apartment Sunday of an apparent suicide as he awaited trial on charges of sexually assaulting more than a dozen women, police said.

Mayor Michael Bloomberg stood behind his plan to close 20 fire companies saying firefighting has advanced over the years, and that modern technology in building construction and the proliferation of sprinklers means the city will survive with fewer firefighters.

The embattled former IMF head Dominique Strauss-Kahn has posted bail and is now in the custody of a security company.

Mayor Michael Bloomberg joked that if the doomsday predictions are correct about the apocalypse coming on Saturday, the city would suspend alternate side parking.

Mayor Michael Bloomberg on Thursday praised the decision to take more than 30 U.S. cities off the list of urban centers receiving anti-terror funding.

Embattled former International Monetary Fund chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn, who was indicted by a grand jury for his alleged attack on a hotel maid, was granted $1 million bail and home detention by a judge Thursday.

The state legislature has unanimously approved a bill that supporters say could prevent a 12 percent rate hike in energy prices.

The Bloomberg Administration on Wednesday released the names of 20 fire companies the mayor is considering closing to help close the city's budget gap. The document given to the City Council lists eight closings in Brooklyn, four in Queens, three each in the Bronx and Manhattan and two in Staten Island.

After seven weeks of emotional and graphic testimony and three days of closing arguments, jury deliberations in the rape trial of two NYPD officers was underway on Wednesday.

The hotel maid who accused IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn of attempted rape told her lawyer she had no idea who the leader was until after the compliant was filed, her attorney said Wednesday.

In response to the alleged ticket-fixing scandal, the NYPD is creating a special unit to deal with the claims.

Elaine's, an Upper East Side institution, is shutting its doors.