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There's a reason we seldom see registered sex offenders running for public office: They lack judgment, they're unpopular, and they have no business going near elected positions of public trust.

The heartless goons approached the pre-teen around 12:30 p.m. on Valentine's Day near the corner of Stratford Avenue and East 172nd Street in Soundview and pushed her into a wall, police said ...

The victim was riding a southbound N train passing through the Atlantic Avenue-Barclays Center station around 10:45 a.m. Monday when the masked stranger punched him repeatedly while hurling the ant ...

Lawyer Anh Phoong filed a claim against the Department Of Corrections and Rehabilitation's parole division in the death of Hanako Abe in San Francisco.

Leo Grillo, 77, who appeared in the 2006 flop "Zyzzyx Rd" alongside Katherine Heigl and Tom Sizemore, is charged with federal attempted kidnapping charges.

Ukrainian tourist Igor Komarov, 28, was attacked and kidnapped on February 15 while riding a scooter.

A California judge who dealt with some of the state's worst criminals -- murderers, child abusers and serial rapists -- has blasted Gov. Gavin Newsom for signing laws that she says have allowed dange ...

Neither pressed charges, with the female staffer telling cops she didn't "want to see a black man in jail."

Shocking video shows a crook using a chainsaw to cut his way into a UK jewelry store for a brazen daylight robbery. Footage shows the robber pulling out the terrifying tool outside Garnier's ...

FBI agents raided Ndiaga Diagne's Del Valle apartment as federal investigators classify the Sixth Street shooting as potential terrorism.