Guards were caught on video repeatedly punching and kicking the inmate as other workers watched. He died hours later at a hospital.

State Police have upgraded a death investigation of seven-year-old Hunter Degroat on Thursday after an autopsy report deemed ...

The death certificate, issued by Dr. Michael Sikirica, lists the cause of Degroat's death as a skull fracture, subdural hemorrhage, subarachnoid hemorrhage, cerebral cortical contusions, and cerebral ...

Dorothy Chin Brandt, the first Asian American female judge in New York state, has died at 78. According to The New York Times ...

Governor Kathy Hochul of New York vetoed, for a third time, the Grieving Families Act (“Act”), a significant bipartisan legislative proposal in New York aimed at reforming the state’s wrongful death ...

A new Colorado bill provides that those who "knowingly" use the wrong "gender identity" on a person's death certificate could ...

New York State Police have charged five people with murder in the killing of a missing man who authorities said died ...

Ferrer, 25, who went by her stage name Lorena Xtravaganza was found dead in her bed after her apartment in Brooklyn burned ...

The death of Robert Brooks at Marcy Correctional Facility has prompted legislative efforts to reform New York’s prison ...

A proposed revamp of how the Department of Health logs and provides birth and death certificates has roiled researchers.

An autopsy ruled Robert Brooks' death a homicide after New York prison guards brutally assaulted him while ... as well as the head of the upstate facility at that time and the commissioner of the ...

New York Gov. Kathy Hochul has called for criminal charges to be filed and arrests to be made after an autopsy report ...