Affirming an order to pull a mentally disabled octogenarian off life support, an appeals court ruled Thursday that the patient’s prior capacity to make health care decisions had little bearing on the case.
Read morePresident Donald Trump on Monday dared New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo to challenge him in 2020 — and warned the Democrat, “Anybody that runs against Trump suffers.”
Read moreJust in time for the piping plovers to fledge this fall, New York and American Bird Conservancy have resolved a 2016 federal lawsuit over what to do with a community of feral cats at Jones Beach.
Read moreA Trump supporter seeks to invalidate portions of New York state’s election law barring political advertisements at polling places, claiming they violate his First Amendment rights.
Read moreThe Second Circuit upheld the convictions Monday of John Sampson, the former Democratic leader of the New York Senate, and revived two embezzlement charges to boot.
Read moreBelonging to an endangered species with fewer than 10,000 left in the wild, newborn red panda twins Loofah and Doofah made their debut Tuesday at an upstate New York zoo.
Read moreThe special counsel in the Russia probe has referred investigations into possible unlawful foreign lobbying to federal prosecutors in New York, according to two people familiar with the inquiry.
Read moreMidway through a New York corruption trial that ended in conviction, Republican leaders asked the state’s ethics watchdog to begin an investigation of Governor Andrew Cuomo. Met only with silence for nearly six months now, they want a judge to intervene.
Read moreA former business director is celebrating after an appeals court advanced his defamation suit over a Bloomberg article that includes criticism of him from a father he says suffers from dementia.
Read moreMoved by the 74-year-old’s fears of dying behind bars, a federal judge slammed former New York Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver as “deeply corrupt” before dealing him a 7-year prison sentence – five years fewer than his original punishment.
Read moreTwo days after reaching a $27 million settlement with the Securities and Exchange Commission, the 26-year-old creator of last year’s failed “once-in-a-lifetime” Fyre music festival in the Bahamas pleaded guilty to new fraud charges that could land him in prison for over a decade.
Read moreMixed martial arts star Conor McGregor pleaded guilty Thursday to disorderly conduct in exchange for community service to resolve charges stemming from a backstage melee at a New York City arena.
Read moreThe Second Circuit on Wednesday slammed an immigration judge who ruled that two Mexican migrant workers living in New York were not entitled to a hearing to suppress evidence about their immigration status from a late-night raid on their home.
Read moreSeagram’s liquor heiress Clare Bronfman was arraigned in Brooklyn federal court on racketeering charges Tuesday in connection with a group that prosecutors say operated like a secretive cult and recruited women as sex slaves.
Read moreA federal judge in Manhattan pressed a prosecutor Tuesday to explain why a New York pizza deliveryman from Ecuador married to a U.S. citizen is being detained and facing deportation.
Read moreA 92-year-old Long Island veteran filed a federal lawsuit claiming a production crew trashed his house while filming a new Netflix series starring Emma Stone and Jonah Hill.
Read moreCompleting an anti-corruption crusade that swept New York’s government, a federal jury found the state’s former Republican Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos and his son guilty on all counts at a retrial on Tuesday.
Read moreA coalition of East Coast states led by New York Attorney General Barbara Underwood filed a federal lawsuit Tuesday challenging the constitutionality of a $10,000 cap on state and local tax deductions to shoulder corporate tax cuts under the Trump administration’s new code.
Read moreThe national network for organ sharing imposes arbitrary and illegal geographical boundaries for donations, according to a federal lawsuit filed by a group of patients waiting for liver transplants.
Read moreA 1967 abstract painting by Robert Motherwell, stolen by a moving company employee in the 1970s, was returned to the artist’s foundation Thursday following an FBI investigation.
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