A down-on-his luck ex-con stabbed a Long Island CVS worker to death during a botched Christmas Day robbery because he was $25,000 in debt and desperate for cash, prosecutors said Wednesday. John ...

Mayor Zohran Mamdani is turning to an ex-con to run NYC’s embattled jail system. The socialist pol announced five key appointments to his administration during a Bronx press conference Saturday, most ...

The accused killer who dumped the body of a 31-year-old Manhattan woman in a sidewalk trash pile threatened to “shoot” his victim just days before the murder, prosecutors revealed at his arraignment ...

Twelve years after the senseless shooting death of her Navy-bound Bronx teenage son, Luz DeJesus was finally starting to come to terms with her grief — until the ex-con who killed him was freed from ...

In 2015, I was in Memphis, Tennessee. I had been invited to speak to a group of young people about making positive life choices. That morning, while getting dressed in my hotel room around 7 a.m., I ...

Few directors have had greater success exposing the harsh realities of American life than Debra Granik. But after a drug abuse-themed first feature, “Down to the Bone,” the Jennifer Lawrence-led ...

You're currently following this author! Want to unfollow? Unsubscribe via the link in your email. Ex-convicts who fought for Russia in Ukraine are heading home with newfound wealth and swagger, The ...

A high-profile ex-con-turned-anti-violence activist who was recently a guest on Joe Rogan’s hit podcast was charged with murder Thursday after he was caught with a headless, dismembered torso in a ...

The amount of effort it takes to be a law-abiding citizen in America—and anywhere else, for that matter—is the subject of Ricky, Rashad Frett’s thoughtful feature debut, starring Stephan James in the ...