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A legal letter sent on behalf of Mark Thompson, the former director general of the BBC, raises questions about his assertions that he learned of accusations of sexual abuse against [...]

LONDON -- In the growing storm surrounding the BBC's handling of an investigation of child sexual abuse accusations against one of its longtime television hosts, the network's current director general [...]

The journey into the heart of Al Qaeda began here, in the frayed Yemeni-American neighborhood of this former steel town just south of Buffalo. For Sahim Alwan, a 28-year-old youth […]

The last of a group of six men accused of attending an Al Qaeda training camp months before 9/11 pleaded guilty today, marking a victory for federal prosecutors who argued […]

FIRST it was the veal spareribs. State kosher food inspectors said there was not enough salt on them. Then inspectors hit the side steaks. Then the lamb tongues. 'The story […]

The raid last July on the offices of All Services Plus here was a lot less than advertised. The owner of the company that sold official-looking documents to illegal immigrants, […]

Melinda Williams's sons always seemed to end up in the basement. When Ms. Williams's twins were 3 years old, a friend, Gloria Anderson, went to visit them on 18th Street […]

Nathaniel Osbourne, an aspiring reggae singer who goes by the nickname Thriller, seemed forever to be looking for an audience. Now he is the subject of an intensive search by […]

MICHAEL J. NEWHARD has the easygoing personality and heavy, dark-framed eyeglasses of the TriBeCa artist that he once was. His father's illness in 1986 brought him home to this Orange […]

The immigration clerk was standing behind thick glass, but she sounded as if she were speaking from the other side of the Looking Glass: 'If I did know, I couldn't […]

YOU have to wonder whether the Catholic Church deserves Peggy Fry. Mrs. Fry, 51, was sexually abused as a teenager by a clergyman in the Bridgeport Diocese who last week […]

A SENSE of serenity has settled over New Jersey because at this very moment, right this second, there is no one running for the United States Senate who is under […]

As Pentagon officials begin designing military tribunals for suspected terrorists, they are considering the possibility of trials on ships at sea or on United States installations, like the naval base […]

Nearly a month after the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, investigators are only beginning to understand the conspiracy that led to the largest act of terrorism […]

PETE SEEGER reached down with both hands to hoist his left leg so he could climb onto the bed of his red pickup. He is 82, but the years evaporated […]

IT'S making people crazy,' Hemang Patel said from behind the counter of his family's convenience store, wearing a slightly amused smile. 'I had a call from someone in Philadelphia this […]

THE Verniero affair ended not with a bang, but a bellow. Jack Collins, the Assembly speaker who rules his corner of power like the Dominator, scoffed at critics Thursday who […]

A MONTH of marathon hearings about racial profiling by the state police meandered to its close here last evening with uncertainty about everything, including whether the hearings were actually over. […]

IT'S a minor miracle that Peter G. Verniero remembered to show up yesterday to testify about all that he had forgotten about his role in New Jersey's racial profiling debacle. […]

FOR the last week, state senators have been sharpening the blade for Peter G. Verniero. Mr. Verniero was Gov. Christie Whitman's attorney general when New Jersey made its final, fumbling […]

FOR Paul Doyle, there was something hollow in the caring words that church officials offered last week in settling sex abuse claims they had long fought. 'We want the victims […]

AS cover-ups go, this one was about as effective as a wash rag on a sumo wrestler. The ugly stuff was sticking out everywhere. A black woman apparently driving too […]

In a secure warren of the Los Alamos weapons laboratory, investigators mined the office of Wen Ho Lee. Books, reports, notes written in Chinese -- everything was handled with latex […]

The crime sounded alarming: China had stolen the design of America's most advanced nuclear weapon. The suspect seemed suspicious enough: Wen Ho Lee, a Taiwanese-born scientist at Los Alamos nuclear […]

MUSCULAR dystrophy slowly makes its way through Terrence Stevens's body, shutting down muscle after muscle. But his continued imprisonment is equally contorting. Mr. Stevens is in the eighth year of […]

THERE is no question that Rob Pace did something reckless. A college-bound honor society student with an arrest for marijuana possession in his recent past, Mr. Pace, 18, went on […]

AL!' Jeanine Pirro scolded her naughty husband. 'Al!' There he went again, stepping just a wee bit over the line. Defying instructions not to talk about his tax fraud trial, […]

BACK when life was good, Robert E. Brennan had racehorses, waterfront homes, helicopters, a plane and the tanned good looks and hint of mystery that make for star quality. Financing […]

IT might not come as a surprise to residents of Greenwich that Brenden P. Leydon was in his Stamford law office yesterday morning preparing to do battle in another lawsuit […]

THE murder, as described by the Bridgeport police, was pure evil. Leroy Brown Jr., 8, was executed for an act of innocence. He told the truth. B. J., as he […]

WHEN the Diallo case was moved here from the Bronx, many black leaders and residents of Albany were hurt that their city was seen as Simi Valley East -- a […]

THE bar where the triple murder in the Hurricane Carter case took place 34 years ago is now called Len's Place. The neighborhood has gone from white to black and […]

The crash could not have been more horrific: a 170-ton airplane with 230 people aboard exploding, splitting in two and plunging into the Atlantic Ocean within sight of Long Island […]

For a brief moment in 1988, Richard Hartman seemed like a broken man. The fortune he had earned as a lawyer for city police unions and his reputation for shrewd […]

Nearly 10 months after the crash of Trans World Airlines Flight 800 off Long Island unleashed strong suspicions of terrorism, law enforcement officials are now in the last stages of […]

With the most promising explanations for the mid-air explosion of Trans World Airlines Flight 800 becoming increasingly difficult to prove, the eight-month investigation has turned into a nationwide scientific exploration […]

The Federal investigation into the New York City Patrolmen's Benevolent Association is focusing on a variety of union accounts, which hold more than $100 million in assets, including tens of […]

A Federal grand jury has subpoenaed 10 years of financial records from New York City's 29,000-member police union as part of a widening investigation into allegations of corruption. The subpoena, […]

Federal prosecutors in Manhattan have subpoenaed documents related to a police insurance contract held by the wives of two police union lawyers who were indicted last week on racketeering charges, […]

Safety investigators searching for the cause of the explosion on Trans World Airlines Flight 800 have tentatively ruled out two recently recovered fuel tank probes after finding that they showed […]

The Federal Government filed suit against the New York City Police Department yesterday, charging that a female police officer assigned to a Queens precinct was subjected to 'constant and pervasive' […]

The Rev. Rufus Jackson claimed that the Lord was his investment adviser and had directed him to gather $1,000 each from 1,000 people, invest the money in real estate and […]

A 13-year-old boy has been charged with murder in the firebombing of a Bronx grocery store last week that killed four people, the police said yesterday. The police said they […]

After a 22-year-old sales worker, Lisa Steinberg, was murdered two years ago in the Manhattan clothing store where she worked, the culprit who repeatedly stabbed her with a screwdriver and […]