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Reports on the identification of the man who died in a fire in New York City as William Tutay.

Reports on the robbery and homicide committed against New York City-based actress Nicole duFresne in January 2005. Description of DuFresne's confrontation with her assailants; Cause of death; Leads on the suspects.

Reports on the death of Conrad Walton, a 79-year-old ailing man, when a fire broke out in his apartment in Brooklyn, New York City on December 11, 2004.

Reports that New York City policemen have shot and killed Carleton Lockhart, who was running from plainclothes officers in the night of December 11, 2004 on a crowded Bronx street.

Reports on the removal of debris from the New York Harbor by the Army Corps of Engineers. Debris accumulated because of the aftereffects of the season's tropical storms and extraordinary high tides; Difficulties experienced by the eight-man crew of Gelberman, charged with keeping New York Harbor clear of debris.

Reports that Sparkle Griffith's old boyfriend has stabbed Akinyilo Gaskin in her appartment in Brooklyn, New York City. Griffith's relationship with her old boyfriend; Claim that how the two men wound up in the apartment at the same time was not clear.

Reports that some twenty people have been injured after a bus carrying mentally disabled adults ran amok a lane of traffic, sideswiped two parked cars and eventually hit a shelter for city passengers in Brooklyn, New York. Incident report from the responding traffic police; Witnesses' account on the accident.

Reports on the death of two-year-old infant Daniel Campos when a van struck him as his baby sitter tried to cross a highway service road in Queens, New York City. Driver's failure to yield to the pedestrian; Personality of Campos; Parents of the boy.

Reports that two people were killed and two others were seriously injured four unrelated stabbings around the city of New York on the night of October 8, 2004 and early October 9, 2004. Incident in which Sheila Freeman stabbed her boyfriend, Michael Youngblood, resulting in his death; Stabbing to death of Arthur Bogins in the Bronx by a group of men; Stabbing of a man near the Grand Concourse; Stabbing of a woman on a sidewalk by the Harlem River Drive.

Reports on the police investigation of an off-duty officer who ran dow a Brooklyn street in his underwear shouting for help in New York city. Details about the incident; Investigation of whether the police officer made up his story that he was robbed and abducted; Proceedings of the investigation; Testimonies by witnesses.

Reports that an autopsy to determine the cause of death of a three-year-old boy whose father had buried and later exhumed his body remains inconclusive.

Reports on the shooting incident during the championship game between basketball teams, Eastchester Gardens and Parkside Houses at a housing project in Bronx, New York City. Objectives of the basketball tournament, Eastchester Unlimited Classic; Background of the tournament; Details of the incident.

Reports on the arrest of transit officer Joseph Rodriguez for the charge of placing a bomb in a Times Square subway station. Results of the police investigation of the incident and of Rodriguez; Importance of the psychiatric evaluation of the suspect; Other criminal charges facing Rodriguez.

Reports that the New York Police Department opened in July 2004 a trial against Officer Eduardo Delacruz, who is accused of refusing to comply with a lawful order to arrest a homeless man whom his superiors had pointed out as trespassing, asleep, in a garage near Union Square. Details of the case; Legal precedents; Implications on law enforcement.

Reports that Harold Daggett and Arthur Coffey, officials of the International Longshoremen's Association, have been indicted on charges of extortion and conspiracy to control business on the docks of New York, New Jersey and southern Florida for the Genovese organized crime family.

Reports that twin infant boys who were identified as Zion and Zarie Lazarus were pronounced dead on July 10, 2004 in Brooklyn, New York after their mother them unconscious. Investigations on the death of the twins.

Reports that armed robbers TnTintouch Wireless, a cellphone store in Brooklyn, New York City.

Reports that a hit-and-run driver has killed Philip Chin, a 56-year-old single Chinese immigrant in New York City who took care of his mother.

Presents the photograph of Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg at Friendship Baptist Church in Bedford-Stuyvesant attending the funeral of Timothy Stansbury Jr. who was shot dead by a police officer in New York City.

The article focuses on the workshop of Montserrat Garibay, an official with the local teacher's union in Austin, Texas, on addressing the educational achievement gap tests and low graduation rates particularly in children of immigrants. It mentions that Garibay centers her seminar on helping families and children to understand the bureaucracy of the immigration system. Moreover, Garibay will take an at-large position at the Democratic National Committee.

The article reports on a shift in government policy towards the trade in illegal performance-enhancing drugs such as anabolic steroids. Instead of focusing on drug dealers, prosecutors are offering those they arrest deals to inform on athletes and other celebrities who purchase the drugs. Arrests so far have been limited to the bodybuilding commuity

The article reports on the failure of a New York City detective, Dwayne L. Chandler, to appear at a court hearing after being called in five times to testify for a case in which the defendant has accused Chandler of police brutality. The author that explains during the time since the first scheduled hearing, Chandler has returned and, therefore, the case has changed because the state is no longer responsible for him.

The article reports on the Justice Gustin L. Reichbach's dismissal of charges against U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation supervisor, Roy Lindley DeVecchio, who was accused of quadruple-murder. The prosecution's key witness, Linda Schiro, could face perjury charges. Schiro told a prosecutor and a detective investigator in the winter of 2005 that DeVecchio and a Mafia assassin conspired to commit murder.

The article reports that prosecutors in Brooklyn, New York City will drop a murder case against former U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) supervisor Roy Lindley DeVecchio, who was charged with aiding a former organized crime informant in four murders in the 1980s and 1990s. The decision came after Tom Robbins, a reporter for the "Village Voice" produced audio recordings of the state's key witness changing her account of events to which she had testified.

The article reports that Roy Lindley DeVecchio, a U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation supervisor, was in State Supreme Court in Brooklyn, New York for a trial on murder charges. According to the article, DeVecchio traded information from the years 1980 through 1993 with a Colombo crime family capo Gregory Scarpa Sr., causing four Mafia killings and failing to stop several others. Prosecutors claim he also kept $66,000 from the U.S. federal government, which was payment for Scarpa.

The article reports on the conviction of Allan Cameron, 29, of first-degree murder for fatally shooting 35-year-old New York City police officer Dillon Stewart, during a car chase through Flatbush Avenue on November 28, 2005. Cameron faces a maximum penalty of life in prison with no chance of parole when he is sentenced in November of the year 2007. Stewart's widow Leslyn, told reporters that the jury sent out the message of justice loud and clear.

The article reports on Denise and Zeke Sandy, parents of son Michael J. who was killed in a robbery attempt, who both believe that "God will turn his death around for good." In October of the year 2006, Sandy was chased from a beach near Sheepshead Bay, which is a meeting place for gay sex, into traffic on the Belt Parkway and struck by a car. Prosecutors charged four men who include Gary Timmins, John Fox, Anthony Fortunato and Ilya Shurov, with hate crimes.

This article presents information about the conviction of John Fox for the hate crime murder of Michael J. Sandy, a gay man. The victim was chosen as a robbery target and was chased through the streets of Brooklyn, New York where he died in the traffic on the Belt Parkway when he was struck by a vehicle. Sandy was lured to a secluded spot through a Web site for gay men. When Sandy tried to escape, he was chased by Fox and another onto the highway.

The article reports that Gerald J. DiChiara, lawyer for defendant Anthony Fortunato, who is fighting alleged hate crime charges, stated that his client is gay in Brooklyn Supreme Court. Fortunato is on trial for allegedly chasing Michael J. Sandy, who was also gay, to his death on the Belt Parkway in New York City during a robbery on October 8, 2006. The difference between the legal charges, larceny by trick and felony murder, is discussed.

This article reports on the arrest of an 18-year-old Brooklyn, New York mother for endangering the welfare of a child and reckless endangerment. Jovanna Shiriver was bathing her 11-month-old daughter and her boyfriend's two-year-old sister when she left for a few minutes to check on some cooking rice. When she returned, she found her daughter unresponsive under the water. Shiriver has been held in a women's jail since her arrest and her daughter continues to be hospitalized.

The article focuses on the search for two suspects in a police shooting which injured two police officers in Brooklyn, New York on Monday, July 9, 2007. Dexter Bostic and Robert Ellis, both 34-years-old, are being sought in a shooting in which two police officers, Russel Timoshenko and Herman Yan, were wounded. The car was stopped after the officers' computer showed the license plate did not match.. Information is given for the men's lengthy criminal histories.

This article presents information about a murder trial in which the victim was murdered in 1992 in South Brooklyn, New York. The area was populated by immigrants from Eastern Europe and Russia. Boris Roitman, a member of a small group of Ukrainian gangsters, was found murdered, but no one was ever charged with the crime. Pyotr Sarkisov, who has admitted killing Roitman, is now scheduled to testify against other defendants in the trial.

This article discusses hate crimes. The author examines the killing of New York City gay man Michael J. Sandy, noting that his accused killers have been charged both with murder and with a violation of the Hate Crimes Act of 2000. A conviction under the hate crime law would result in a longer jail sentence, and the legal definition of hate crimes are also highlighted.

This article presents information about the sentencing hearings for former Brooklyn, New York Assemblyman Clarence Norman Jr. and former New York State Supreme Court Justice Gerald P. Garson. Norman was convicted of extortion, soliciting illegal contributions from a lobbyist, and larceny from his re-election committee. Garson was convicted of accepting bribes and official misconduct. Women who believed that Garson had mishandled their divorce cases held a demonstration at the hearings.

This article reports that New York City has agreed to pay $2 million to the parents of a Brooklyn man killed by police gunfire. A police officer's bullet killed 19-year-old Timothy Stansbury during January of 2004, and a court awarded the $2 million settlement to Stansbury's family more than three years later.

The article reports on the outcome of a trial in the Federal District Court in Brooklyn, New York involving a conspiracy to murder and the murder of a couple from Queens, New York. Thomas and Rosemarie Uva were murdered after robbing Mafia social clubs. A jury found that there was a conspiracy to murder the couple, but couldn't convict either Dominick Pizzonia or a co-defendant of the murders. Pizzonia was found guilty of conspiracy to murder, but his lawyer plans to appeal the decision.

This article reports on the conviction of a former New York State Supreme Court judge for accepting bribes to rule in divorce cases in Brooklyn. Gerald P. Garson could be sentenced to 15 years in prison for his crime. The jury found the judge guilty of accepting cash, dinners and cigars from a divorce-court lawyer in exchange for courtroom assignments and favored treatment.

This article discusses the judicial corruption trial of New York judge Gerald P. Garson. The article notes that the lawyers in the trial, Michael S. Washor and Michael F. Vecchione, have carried out an uncharacteristically theatrical trial, complete with personal attacks and sarcasm. New York State Supreme Court Justice Jeffrey G. Berry has served as judge for the trial.

This article reports that Staten Island, New York resident Ronnell Wilson was sentenced to death for the murder of two New York police detectives. After a two month trial, Judge Nicholas G. Garaufis sentenced Wilson to death in March of 2007. The death sentence was the first in New York state since the 1950s.

The article presents information on the death sentence given to Ronell Wilson in the Brooklyn Federal Court in Brooklyn, New York City. The court gave the death sentence to Wilson on February 13, 2007 for killing two detectives in the year 2003 in Staten Island. It is however reported that the prosecutors, who handle the death penalty cases must consider the critical factors and satisfy the members of the jury panel, and appellate judges.

This article discusses death row inmate Ronell Wilson. The article notes that Wilson, the first person sentenced to death in New York since the 1950s, will probably remain on death row for years while various appeals processes take place. Wilson was convicted of ten crimes in December of 2006, including the murder of two police officers.

This article discusses the death sentence verdict given to accused murderer Ronell Wilson, marking the first successful federal capital punishment prosecution in the state of New York in more than 50 years. Wilson was accused of killing two undercover police detectives in 2003. An overview of the case is provided. The article also presents a list of fourteen defendants who have had their death penalty sentences rejected in the past in New York State.

This article describes the testimony given by Rose Nemorin to try to convince the jury to impose the death penalty on Ronell Wilson for murdering undercover New York City detectives James V. Nemorin and Rodney J. Andrews. Nemorin told the court what a wonderful man, husband, father, and policeman her husband was and how devastating his loss has been to her and their three young children. Wilson, who hid his eyes during the testimony, will get a chance to present testimony in his behalf next.

This article presents information about the sentencing trial for Ronell Wilson, the man found guilty of murdering New York City police detectives Rodney J. Andrews and James V. Nemorin in 2003. After testimony from Andrews' wife, relatives, friends, and son, Wilson's lawyer plans to offer testimony about his sad story of a terrible upbringing and life. While Wilson is seeking life imprisonment, prosecutors would like him to be executed by lethal injection.

The article discusses Brooklyn prosecutor Kenneth Mark Taub and two unrelated cases that have appeared in court in January 2007. In one case, the defendant claimed he must be innocent--his alibi is his cell phone which was fifteen miles from the scene of the shooting for which he is being prosecuted. The other case involves an alleged Mafia member who claims he is innocent of a shooting he was convicted of twenty years ago. The two men who can prove his innocence are in the Federal Witness Protection Program.

This article discusses the one-year anniversary of the death of seven-year-old Brooklyn, New York resident Nixzmary Brown. Brown was found beaten and starved to death on January 11, 2006, and her mother and stepfather, Nixzaliz Santiago and Cesar Rodriguez, were charged with Brown's murder, and will be tried during 2007.

This article presents information about the guilty verdict in the criminal trial of street gang member Ronell Wilson who was convicted of murdering New York City police detectives James V. Nemorin and Rodney J. Andrews. The detectives were killed while involved in a weapons sting with Wilson and other gang members. The trial was unique because it featured evidence against Wilson from the written lyrics of a rap song found in his pockets boasting about and describing the killings.

The article discusses the murder trial of Ronell Wilson, who is charged with killing two New York City police detectives. Prosecutors are introducing scraps of paper found in Wilson's pocket after the murders that contained the lyrics to a rap song that police say describe the murders. Violent rap lyrics have been used as evidence in criminal trials more frequently, but defense lawyers argue that they are merely fantasy. A rap song by Tupac Shakur was used in a murder trial to help convict Ronald Ray Howard.

This article presents a profile of New York State Supreme Court Justice James G. Starkey, who has been a judge for more than three decades. Starkey is known as a hard, but fair jurist who runs a very tight court. Starkey efficiently works through his scheduled cases in a no-nonsense manner. Starkey's father was also a judge and he imparted his love for law upon his son who followed in his footsteps. Judge Starkey will be missed as he approaches mandatory retirement.

The article reports that lawyers in Brooklyn Supreme Court in Brooklyn, New York City, are competing with each other to fight a high-publicity murder case. Though Darryl Littlejohn, a bouncer at a bar association, has no money to finance his defense, the lawyers are in intense competition for his case. Littlejohn is charged with first-degree murder. Since Littlejohn was arrested in the case, a half-dozen lawyers have appeared in the primary hearing of the case.