MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — A judge on Thursday ordered a new trial for three former Memphis police officers who were convicted of federal charges in the fatal beating of Tyre Nichols, after defense lawyers argued that another judge who presided over their trial was biased against the men. U.S. District Judge Sheryl H. Lipman issued… Read More »

Two officers with the Department of Correction’s Emergency Service Unit were badly slashed by a notoriously violent detainee late Wednesday on Rikers Island, city and union officials said. The eruption of violence began just after 4 p.m., when a man held in the North Infirmary Command started a fire in his cell. Heavy smoke poured… Read More »

A Brooklyn man has been convicted of sex trafficking a woman on Long Island, authorities said this week. Michael Howell, 65, was found guilty Tuesday on two counts of sex trafficking, two counts of promoting prostitution and two counts of drug possession, the Suffolk County District Attorney’s office said in a press release Wednesday. Howell… Read More »

Demonstrators in a “March on Wall Street” Thursday called on corporate America to push back against President Trump’s attack on diversity initiatives. Carrying signs that said, “Stop Stealing Our Legacy,” protesters, led by the Rev. Al Sharpton and Martin Luther King III, took their financial fight to the seat of the nation’s economic power base. “We… Read More »

Authorities in New Jersey are searching for a man who busted into a Dunkin store in Newark over the weekend, and then made off with approximately $10,000 in cash. The burglary occurred on Sunday at a Dunkin located in the 100 block of Bergen Street, Newark Public Safety Director Emanuel Miranda Sr. told NJ Advance… Read More »

The Mets just made the last week of August look and feel — and sound — like what they very much hope the first week of October will be like, at Citi Field especially. Now, they have been way too unpredictable since a hot start to make three hot nights turn them into some kind… Read More »

A Texas woman accused of dumping a baby at her father’s doorstep also taunted him by way of text message, urging him to call child protective services on her, police said. Ashley Bailey has been charged with a count of abandoning-endangering a child without intent to return in connection with the incident, which occurred early… Read More »

By MIKE SCHNEIDER and KATE PAYNE, Associated Press ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — A federal judge in Miami has refused to pause her order requiring the winding down of the immigration detention center in the Florida Everglades known as “Alligator Alcatraz” while the federal government appeals her ruling. Attorneys for the U.S. Department of Homeland Security said in their… Read More »

Highlights this weekend include a Las Vegas-meets-Broadway style spectacle starring celebrated escape artist Lord Nil, an M. Night Shyamalan retrospective and Kel Mitchell‘s nostalgia-driven food festival. There’s also free events including a Bob Mackie exhibit in SoHo and Troy Anthony’s music-centered adaptation of Shakespeare’s “Pericles” in Morningside Heights. Theater “Lord Nil: 7 Deadly Sins” (Jeremy… Read More »

By HYUNG-JIN KIM and KEN MORITSUGU, Associated Press BEIJING (AP) — North Korean leader Kim Jong Un will make his first visit to China in six years to attend a military parade next week, the two countries said Thursday, in an event that would bring him together with a large group of world leaders for… Read More »