A 15-year-old boy remained in a psychiatric facility Tuesday after Monroe, New York, police arrested him in connection with a plot to attack his former high school on the anniversary of the 1999 Columbine High School shooting, police said.

A second man was arrested Tuesday evening in the anti-gay beating of a man in Queens, New York, police said.

Stressed out about the economy?  Need a hug? How about snuggling with strangers to relax?  That’s what dozens of people are doing at “cuddle parties”.

A 17 year old is being charged with reckless assault because a practical joke ending with a skin graft surgery for his friend.

NY Attorney General Andrew Cuomo is trying to shut down a debt-collection agency he says uses sexual threats and impersonates police.

The U.S. Marshals Service is asking real estate agents to put in bids to be the listing agents for three properties owned by convicted swindler Bernard Madoff.

The case of a puppy that used to have five legs and was saved from a Coney Island animal show is going before a court TV judge in Chicago.

Mentoria Hutchinson, entertains motorists with her funky dance moves as she directs traffic in Manhattan.

Driving a subway is so easy an 8-year-old could do it – and one straphanger claims that’s who he saw behind the controls of his New York City train.

Levy Izhak Rosenbaum, who lives in Brooklyn and is not a licensed physician or medical professional, faces charges of acting as a human organ broker.

A New York state elementary school teacher is charged with posing as a teenager to meet underage girls.

The Naked Cowboy, who plays his guitar in New York’s Times Square wearing nothing but a cowboy hat, boots and white briefs , is hoping to book a new gig….mayor of New York.

New York attorney Marc Dreier, who pleaded guilty to charges of defrauding hedge funds of about $700 million, was sentenced Monday to 20 years in prison.

Some units of the New York Police Department still function more like “Dragnet” than “CSI.“ They rely on typewriters. The 20th-century writing devices are used for filling out forms that officers file when they seize items during investigations. The NYPD’s bill for typewriter maintainance? Nearly $433,000.

Crime scene investigators were still looking for clues this afternoon six days after a cleaning woman vanished while working and two days after a tied up body was discovered.