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Caseworkers Charged in Death of Abused 4-Year-Old NYC Girl

Two former New York City child welfare workers have been charged in the death of a 4-year-old girl who was beaten, drugged and starved in her own home. Prosecutors said that Marchella Brett-Pierce was bound to her mother's bed for months and repeatedly beaten and denied food and water. At her death Sept. 2, she weighed...

Former NYPD Officer Charged With Wife's Murder

While family and friends wiped away tears and mourned the loss of Tina Adovasio at her funeral, her estranged husband was noticeably absent. Adovasio's husband Edwin Coello, a former NYPD cop, was arrested and charged with her murder, a police spokesperson said Tuesday. ï»¿ï»¿ï»¿Coello's attorney Renee Hill did not...

Stonewall Inn Anti-Gay Beating: What Constitutes a Hate Crime?

(Oct. 5) -- In the early hours of Sunday morning, two presumably straight men beat up a gay man in the bathroom of the Stonewall Inn, New York's most iconic gay bar, famed for the 1969 riots against police persecution that many credit with kicking off the modern gay rights movement. As the victim, Benjamin Carver,...

Jack T. Camp's Woes Include Stripper Prostitute, Drug Use, Illegal Guns

(Oct. 4) -- Is he a judge or a gangsta rapper? U.S. District Court Judge Jack T. Camp Jr. finds himself charged with an array of crimes decidedly unbecoming of his profession and more befitting the lifestyle boasted about in hip-hop lyrics. Police arrested Camp, who was appointed to the federal bench by Ronald Reagan,...

Billionaire Brothers Charged With $550 Million Fraud

(July 30) -- Billionaire brothers Samuel Wyly (pictured) and Charles Wyly were charged Thursday by the Securities & Exchange Commission with orchestrating a 13-year-long securities fraud that reaped them $550 million in undisclosed gains that were hidden in a series of transactions in the Isle of Man and the Cayman Islands...