The torso of 65-year-old Edwin Echevarria was found in a sleeping bag in a suitcase floating in the river. Police have ...

President Donald Trump’s newly installed attorney general, Pam Bondi, is going after New York leaders over the state’s ...

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.

Six months after a DEC officer shot a mother bear and her two cubs in Old Forge, community members try to make sense of the ...

Demetrius Frazier became the fourth inmate in the US to be put to death by the method as he served his sentence for the 1991 ...

Robert Brooks, 43, was brutally beaten with his hands tied behind his back by corrections officers while in custody at Marcy Correction Facility on Dec. 9. At the time of the attack, he was serving a ...

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

New York Gov. Kathy Hochul said authorities should now move quickly and pursue criminal charges against those responsible for ...

A press release issued last week by the union representing corrections officers statewide asserted there were more than 2,000 ...

Lawyers say the death of a handcuffed man who was pummeled by New York prison guards was ruled a homicide in an autopsy report.

The autopsy reported that Brooks died from “compression of the neck and multiple blunt-impact injuries,” a family lawyer said ...