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AUSTIN, Tex. -- The meeting began, as so many in middle-school auditoriums do, uncomfortably. Parents squeezed into chairs fit for 12-year-old knees. The speaker's first question fell flat. ''Estamos listos [...]

DALLAS -- Four and a half hours into her shift, at 11:34 a.m. on Christmas Day, an emergency dispatcher in the suburbs took another call.''Grapevine 911, where is your emergency?'' [...]

When drag racing in sand, to wait for the green light is to lose. A light fixture separates two lanes of sand, each 100 yards long, clumped and stained with […]

The boxer took his nickname, Mandingo, from the story of a slave turned bare-knuckle champion who bedded his master's wife. At 25, he stood 5 feet 8 inches with a […]

From the islands off southern Alaska to the Sonora Desert of Mexico, Rick Duggan had slain 28 big-game species with a custom-made traditional wooden recurve bow. Under a sheath of […]

Is your son into mixed martial arts? Check his ears. Once an outlaw sport derided for its brutality, the prizefighting style known as mixed martial arts or ultimate fighting has […]

That could not have been a wild sow that Nub was barking at down in the scrub brush. Those hogs out behind the golf course were fast, smart and wary […]

Come early May, the darkness and the hurricane-force winds will fade and in the lambent daylight a calm will fall on the highest place in the world. Mountain climbers await […]

When Officer John M. Kelly crashed his police car during a chase on Staten Island in 2000, thousands of officers attended his funeral, where Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani declared: 'John […]

The definitive history of New York night life may one day make note of Stephen Sakai in a short chapter called Downtown Bouncer Violence. Recounting the era of the smoking […]

In a conference room on the 17th floor of the Brooklyn district attorney's office, in the winter of 2005, a prosecutor and a detective investigator sat down with a woman […]

A second defendant was found guilty yesterday of manslaughter as a hate crime for his role in luring a gay Brooklyn man to his death last year. But after delivering […]

A Brooklyn man was convicted of first-degree murder yesterday for fatally shooting a police officer during a wild car chase through Flatbush at the close of the Thanksgiving weekend in […]

The defense lawyer stood alone. A hundred pairs of eyes watched him from the gallery; nearly a hundred police officers waited in the dress blues and golden lapel pins of […]

Prosecutors in State Supreme Court rested their case yesterday against a man accused of killing a police officer in Flatbush. The officer, Dillon Stewart, 35, left, was shot dead in […]

The hallways of the State Supreme Court building in Brooklyn are crosscut passages of venom and condemnation: on one floor, police officers daily stare down a man charged with killing […]

For his role in selecting a gay man as a robbery target and chasing him to his death in traffic, a Brooklyn man was convicted yesterday of manslaughter and attempted […]

She met Allan Cameron seven years ago, when she was a teenager. He was older, already in his 20s. Two years ago, she saw him at a club. He asked […]

A judge cast doubts yesterday on a defense raised by one of the young men accused of chasing a gay man to his death in traffic on the Belt Parkway […]

A police officer who molested women while on duty in uniform was convicted of sexual abuse and official misconduct yesterday in State Supreme Court in Brooklyn. The jury, of 11 […]

Two newspaper reporters described by prosecutors as critical to a murder case against the parents of the 7-year-old victim cannot be compelled to testify, a judge ruled yesterday. The mother, […]

A man was cleared of murder charges yesterday after offering cellular telephone records as alibi evidence. The man, Eric Wright, 36, was set free at a hearing in State Supreme […]

A Ukrainian immigrant who spent his youth in the pool halls of Brighton Beach, carried his shotgun in a tennis racket bag full of weapons and married into a Russian […]

'This was the big fish?' the prosecutor asked, his tenor incredulous, his index finger aimed across the courtroom at Vitaly Ivanitsky. Mr. Ivanitsky, 33, slouched in a chair and idly […]

The 11-month-old girl stood in the tub, playing in shallow water with a 2-year-old girl, both looked after by a teenage mother home alone. The last moments of normal life […]

Talking to the grand jury was a risk, of course. Though the testimony is supposed to be kept secret by law, a defendant's words can be used at trial to […]

In the Eastern European immigrant neighborhoods of South Brooklyn, where the notorious heroin smuggler Boris Nayfeld was running the Brighton Beach waterfront, the collapsing Soviet bloc had opened new routes […]

The end brought no mercy for Paul Siminovsky. It came more than four years after he was arrested in cinematic fashion: pulled over in his car, driven to a secluded […]

The case against John Sinagra was about as serious as they come: Prosecutors charged him with first-degree murder, saying he had acted on orders from a Colombo crime family capo, […]

A woman who represented clients in Family Court without a license to practice law was sentenced yesterday in State Supreme Court to five years' probation. Law enforcement officials said that […]

An unwritten playbook seems to guide jailhouse lawyers: bring a dramatic flair, rant and rave, put the whole system on trial. Point your fingers. Wave your arms around. Grow a […]

'Curiouser and curiouser,' cried the judge, Gustin L. Reichbach, channeling 'Alice's Adventures in Wonderland' as he surveyed the spectacle in State Supreme Court in Brooklyn yesterday. To his right, a […]

A woman accused of killing her newborn daughter was unaware of her pregnancy and has no memory of giving birth, her lawyer said in State Supreme Court yesterday. The woman, […]

Two men were sentenced in State Supreme Court yesterday to 15 years to life in prison for their roles in the murders of two undercover police detectives in 2003. The […]

Four years ago, the Brooklyn district attorney, Charles J. Hynes, turned against the single-party system he had navigated for decades, vowing to prove that seats of power at the courthouse […]

A government witness testified in Federal District Court yesterday that the man charged with the 1992 killing of Thomas and Rose Marie Uva of Queens, a young couple who robbed […]

Clarence Norman Jr., the former leader of the Brooklyn Democratic Party, was sentenced yesterday in State Supreme Court to one to three years in prison for extortion. The sentence, less […]

Certain occupations require people -- or permit them -- to spend the day screaming at somebody. Two men seemingly inclined toward such work, Michael S. Washor and Michael F. Vecchione, […]

In his day, Detective Fred the Cat was lionized from Grand Rapids, Mich., to Japan. There was a law enforcement award; there was an appearance on Broadway. The Sunday Mercury […]

After four days on the stand, the primary witness in a judicial bribery case finished his direct testimony yesterday, describing a series of gifts and cash payments made in exchange […]

The government will seek to execute a reputed crime family boss accused of killing an associate, federal prosecutors said yesterday in pretrial court documents. The defendant, Vincent Basciano, known as […]

An off-duty police lieutenant who shot and killed his unarmed tenant during an argument was found not guilty of criminal charges yesterday evening. 'I feel good,' the lieutenant, Shamik Walton […]

Standing before the Great Seal of the United States of America, under the gaze of hundreds, Ronell Wilson was dispatched from the city of his childhood yesterday and ordered to […]

In the courtroom where Lt. Shamik Walton is on trial, the charge is manslaughter, the stakes are 15 years in prison and the trouble is his alone. But a separate […]

A street gang member who boasted of bloodshed and invincibility in his amateur rap lyrics was found guilty yesterday of capital murder for shooting two undercover detectives in the back […]

After three and a half years of preparation, lawyers for a man who faces the death penalty on charges of killing two undercover detectives presented their entire case in three […]

A man who arranged to sell a gun to two undercover detectives will not be called to testify against a man accused of killing the detectives as they sought to […]

The 911 operator answered and the caller would not give his name. Outside his window, on a dead-end street near the waterfront on Staten Island, two gunshots had sounded. Two […]