Richard Khavkine

June 2, 2023, was unusually hot for a late spring day. Temperatures hit a high of nearly 90 degrees early that afternoon. It was even hotter underground, within the subway stations where Sirui Ma spent nearly that entire Friday. Ma, a...

The former longtime president of the United Probation Officers Association must repay the union nearly $685,000 and also forfeit $750,000 following his guilty plea earlier this year to defrauding the union of funds he used to pay for jewelry,...

Dozens of city retirees crowded into the lobby of the city’s largest municipal union Monday afternoon to try and crash a meeting called by the executive director of District Council 37, Henry Garrido, who had invited City Council members to the...

Thousands of models, content creators, stylists and others working in New York State’s fashion industry will get paid on time, copied on contracts and agreements and notified of royalties they are owed, according to legislation signed into law by Governor Kathy Hochul Saturday.

The union representing state correction officers said that video footage of an incident implicating several officers in the death of an inmate earlier this month is of such a brutal nature that it could spark violence inside jails and prisons...

In what could prove to be damning evidence, body camera footage released by the state attorney general’s office Friday shows several state correction officers engaging in a brutal and, according to some officials, ultimately fatal beating of a...

Citing the possible appearance of a conflict, the state attorney general’s office has recused itself from the investigation into the death of Robert Brooks, the prisoner who died after enduring a severe beating by state correctional officers last...

The fatal stabbing of three persons in broad daylight. The immolation of a woman in a subway car. The execution-style shooting death of a CEO outside a Midtown hotel. Those high profile murders and other violent crimes had residents on edge in...

City Council legislation that would preserve municipal retirees’ health benefits has so far found little traction, but advocates have vowed to persist in their effort to defeat the Adams administration’s plan to switch the former city workers into...

Hundreds of NYPD sergeants and their allies converged on West 125th Street, across the boulevard from the Apollo Theater and just ahead of Mayor Eric Adams’ State of the City address at the storied venue last Thursday, to decry the city’s stance...