Jessy Edwards

A Brooklyn-based architect says he has become a host for microscopic mites that usually feast off of feral rats.

On a recent Monday afternoon, the vice chancellor of Austria, Andreas Babler, peered up at a hole in the sagging ceiling of a dark, unrented South Williamsburg apartment crowded with abandoned furniture and dusty suitcases. Los Sures tenant advocate Lina Renique-Poole was telling Babler about the landlord's warehousing of more...

A doctor shot seven people inside a New York City hospital, one of them fatally, before turning the gun on himself in what appears to be a case of workplace violence Friday afternoon, officials say.

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Ernastiaze Moore knew the name of the state prison guard who he alleges sexually assaulted him on two separate occasions at Sullivan Correctional Facility, where he was incarcerated. He remembered the dates of the abuse and the rooms where the attacks took place. His lawyers obtained video of one of the assaults and internal prison reports of both incidents. His case seemed like exactly the ...

UPDATE: Story of NYC Lawyer Gets Even More Bizarre as Community Plans Latin Party Outside His Apartment