The Bronx DA’s office has dropped the charges against a Queens public defender arrested on Rikers Island for possession of alleged drug-soaked papers after lab tests showed there were no narcotics on ...

Weinstein’s retrial is scheduled to start April 15 in state court in Manhattan — nearly a year after New York’s highest court overturned his 2020 conviction on rape and sexual assault charges ...

The City Council’s lawsuit, which calls the executive order “the poisoned fruit of Mayor Adams’ deal with the Trump administration,” claims ICE will use its office on Rikers “to fuel the ...

Mayor Eric Adams waved off concerns about President Trump’s false insinuation that Zohran Mamdani is an illegal immigrant and his threat to arrest the Democratic mayoral nominee ...

What You Need To Know A federal judge has ordered the city to hand over the operations of its troubled jails on Rikers Island to an outside manager This past November, the same judge found the ...

NEW YORK — As Rikers Island continues to be in turmoil, lawyers are preparing to ask a federal judge to consider emergency relief to alleviate conditions on the island. Emergency relief could ...