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He's a mayor whose candidacy was championed by Governor Chris Christie for being clean and straightfoward, but Mayor Felix Roque of West New York, New Jersey was in federal court Thursday, charged with felony computer crimes and one computer misuse...

GUANTANAMO BAY U.S. NAVAL BASE, Cuba (Reuters) - The arraignment of five Guantanamo prisoners accused of plotting the September 11 attacks got off to a rocky start on Saturday when the defendants removed their earphones and refused to listen to a...

Jerry Sandusky will appear in court Tuesday for the first major hearing in the case. Pre-trial hearings are a matter of formality in many states, but in Pennsylvania they hold far greater importance where prosecutors lay out much of their case against the...

A teen who played a role in an anti-gay attack at a landmark gay bar in New York City was sentenced Tuesday to two months in jail. Christopher Orlando was reportedly silent at his sentencing as a judge handed down punishment. In September, Orlando...

After staying mum and uncooperative about the death of aspiring dancer Laura Garza, 25, prime suspect Michael Mele made a surprise guilty plea in Garza's killing in exchange for a lesser sentence, a development that Garza's family describes as an...

Federal prosecutors in New York announced Tuesday the results of a globe undercover sting operation that took down suspected money men for Hezbollah and the Taliban busted in a narco-terror takedown. Four men are now accused of plotting to sell heroin on...

Teen pop star Justin Bieber will appear in a public service announcement for Nassau County public schools in exchange for criminal charges to be dropped against his manager who authorities claim perpetuated a dangerous environment during a mall appearance...

A former juvenile justice worker was convicted Friday of molesting two girls under his care in a courthouse, but was acquitted of charges of raping a third girl. The trial of Tony Simmons was closely watched by women's advocates. His accusers...

Prosecutors took an unusual step Thursday by deciding to put off the indictment of a suspect involved in a Harlem shootout -- involving the cops -- in which one man was killed in a hail of 50 police bullets. Manhattan's district attorney, Cyrus R....

A man pleaded guilty Tuesday to the slayings of three friends in a New Jersey schoolyard. The Star-Ledger of Newark reports Melvin Jovel told a judge he opened fire on the three and wounded a fourth in the 2007 attack in Newark. All the victims...

The last of seven Long Island teenagers involved in the 2008 stabbing death of an Ecuadorean immigrant has been sentenced to five years in prison. Marcelo Lucero was stabbed in a confrontation near the Patchogue, N.Y., train station. The killing...

A convicted cop killer and his accomplice pleaded not guilty Wednesday on charges of attempted murder for allegedly shooting a Queens man one day before fatally shooting Officer Russel Timoshenko during a routine traffic stop in Brooklyn. Dexter Bostic,...