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The move to put the self-proclaimed Sept. 11 mastermind on trial just blocks from ground zero raises a host of legal, political and security questions, chief among them: Can a fair-minded jury be found in a city still nursing deep wounds from the attack on the World Trade Center?
A man who made billions of dollars off Bernard Madoff's Ponzi scheme signed a will leaving the bulk of his fortune to charity, but the gift's ultimate size may depend on legal wrangling over how much of the money rightfully belongs to cheated victims.
The legal challenges to Intel Corp.'s sales tactics mounted Wednesday as New York's attorney general accused the world's biggest computer chip maker of using "illegal threats and collusion" to dominate.
It was the most expensive real estate deal in U.S. history. Now it's poised to become one of the biggest flops.
Two former Bear Stearns hedge fund managers went on trial Wednesday in one of the few criminal cases brought against Wall Street executives in connection with the housing market collapse.
A political power broker and an investment executive who advised government officials in several states have pleaded guilty to securities fraud in connection with a "pay-to-play" scandal at New York's public pension fund.
Three years ago, the maker of a surgical clip called the Hem-o-lok issued an urgent recall notice warning doctors to stop using the fasteners on living kidney donors. It said the clips could dislodge in their bodies, with "serious, even life-threatening consequences."
After doing time for possession and an accidental killing, crack dealer Rodney Morrison decided he was finished with drugs. He threw himself a "retirement" party in 1993 and got into a new line of work: tax-free cigarettes.
T-Mobile USA has dropped a plan to begin charging customers $1.50 per month to get a paper copy of their bill in the mail.
A small-time money manager who did business out of a shabby storefront in Brooklyn was charged Tuesday with running a $40 million Ponzi scheme that secretly diverted client money to unauthorized ventures, including a mail-order pornography business.
For most of the thousands of Americans who need a new kidney, there are only two ways to go: persuade a friend or relative to donate, or get on the transplant waiting list.
When a small plane collided with a sightseeing helicopter over the Hudson River last week, it was only the second time in decades that crowded skies near Manhattan led to a midair crash.
Researchers say a small number of young law enforcement officers who participated in the World Trade Center rescue and cleanup operation have developed an immune system cancer.
The collision of a sightseeing helicopter and a small plane over New York's Hudson River has intensified pressure to tighten the rules governing one of the world's most crowded air corridors — a largely unregulated airspace some pilots compare to the Wild West.
A runway at John F. Kennedy International Airport was shut down briefly Wednesday morning after at least 78 turtles emerged from a nearby bay and crawled onto the tarmac.
The Pacific Corporate Group, a company that helps big government pension funds decide how to invest their money, has agreed to pay $2 million to extract itself from a corruption investigation in New York.
State authorities have shut down a collection agency they said terrified people across the country into paying debts by telling them if they didn't send money immediately, they would be thrown in jail.
New York City plans to trap and kill up to 2,000 Canada Geese this summer in an attempt to avoid the type of collision that caused an airliner to ditch in the Hudson River in January.
Steven Rattner had but one assignment when the president brought him to Washington in February. But it was a big one: Save the American auto industry.
State officials have closed two debt collection companies in western New York as part of a new investigation into alleged abuses in the collections industry.
City Comptroller William Thompson says the city's pension funds should adopt state Attorney General Andrew Cuomo's anti-corruption principles.
A California businessman implicated in a corruption scandal at New York's public pension fund secretly pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor securities fraud charge two months ago, authorities revealed Tuesday.
New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo has sent a letter to the Chevron Corp., questioning whether executives have been upfront with shareholders about the company's potential liability for decades of pollution in the jungles of Ecuador.
An influence-peddling scandal that began in New York, but is now expanding to other states, broadened Thursday as authorities brought criminal charges against a Dallas executive whose firm advises some of the country's biggest public pension funds.
The trustee trying to unravel Bernard Madoff's massive Ponzi scheme is threatening legal action to recover $735 million from investors who unwittingly made money off the swindle.
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