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A federal appeals court says investors who profited from Bernard Madoff’s massive Ponzi scheme must pay back their profits even if they knew nothing of it.

The man who killed John Lennon in 1980 says he was seeking glory and deserved the death penalty for a “despicable” act.

A one-time Manhattan doctor has been indicted by a federal grand jury on allegations that he sexually abused dozens of female patients over a period of decades. Federal prosecutors say Robert Hadden, formerly affiliated with Columbia University, allegedly abused both minors and adults from the early 1990s through 2012. Among his victims, they say, was a young woman he delivered…

Police released a disturbing video of a “random attack” committed by an alleged attempted rapist they say occurred in broad daylight on a Manhattan subway platform. The attack happened around 11 a.m. Saturday at the Lexington Av-63 Street Subway Station, according to the NYPD. By Sunday afternoon, Chief of Detectives Rodney Harrison announced the suspect’s arrest in East Harlem....

The victim said in the lawsuit that she agreed to accompany Gooding to a bar at a SoHo hotel, but he convinced her to go upstairs so he could change clothes, where he allegedly raped her twice as he pinned her down.

Detectives are looking for the person who beheaded and dismembered a tech entrepreneur in his luxury New York City apartment, law enforcement sources tell News 4 New York. According to sources, Fahim Saleh’s body was discovered by his sister, who dropped by his Lower East Side apartment to check on him Tuesday afternoon. Police sources familiar with the investigation say…

As they were eating, the officers found that a substance, believed to be some sort of cleaning solution or disinfectant, was in their beverages, the police union said in a message to officers.

A 64-year-old woman who was ambushed by a man in a blue surgical mask, put in a chokehold and raped on the ground in East Harlem last month, has died from her injuries, police said Friday. The woman was attacked as she walked along 111th Street shortly before midnight on May 18. Jarring surveillance footage released by police shows a…

In hard-hit New York City, the coronavirus outbreak has taken a particularly heavy toll on Hispanic communities

All of the pizza getting made at Manhattan’s Sauce Pizzeria — as many as 400 per day — are going straight to hospitals to feed health care workers pulling long shifts as they remain on the front lines of the COVID-19 fight

UPDATE: 2 New COVID-19 Cases in NY Bring Total to 13: Community Spread Eyed in Possible NJ Case as State Awaits Tests The wife, son, daughter and neighbor of a midtown Manhattan lawyer who has been hospitalized in severe condition since being diagnosed with the novel coronavirus have now also tested positive, Gov. Andrew Cuomo said Wednesday. In addition, a…

UPDATE: Family and Neighbor of NYC Attorney Also Test Positive for COVID-19, Taking State to 6 Cases; Dad Hospitalized in ICU An attorney who lives in Westchester County and works in midtown Manhattan is New York state’s second confirmed coronavirus case — and the first apparent instance of community spread, the governor said Tuesday. Gov. Andrew Cuomo said an initial…

The search of the Times Square offices comes after women filed a lawsuit claiming Nygard enticed them, some as young teenagers, to his estate in the Bahamas where he gave them drugs or alcohol and then raped them.

Former Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein has been convicted in New York of rape and sexual assault against two women and has been led off to prison in handcuffs

The woman who allegedly went on a carjacking spree in Manhattan, stealing three cars, flipping one over and crashing into more than a dozen other vehicles before being taken into custody last week, told police she had “four to five margaritas and did two bags of coke” before the fiasco, according to a criminal complaint.

Witnesses said they heard a crash on the sidewalk and came out to find the woman on the ground after falling more than 50 feet out the seventh-floor window

The defense said the “carnival-like atmosphere” surrounding jury selection, coupled with prospective jurors’ social media comments showed Weinstein won’t get a fair shake in his hometown

Federal prosecutors on Tuesday charged a major donor to President Donald Trump’s inaugural committee with obstructing a federal investigation into whether foreign nationals unlawfully contributed to the inaugural celebrations.

A woman was struck and killed by falling debris in midtown Manhattan Tuesday shortly after 11 a.m., police said. She was pronounced dead at the scene in front of 152 West 49th Street, police say. The victim was 60 and had serious head trauma, police said. Police officials have identified the victim as Erica Tishman, who served on the board…