A subway commuter who helped an ex-Marine restrain an agitated man aboard a Manhattan subway last year testified that he tried to convince the veteran to loosen his grip around the man’s neck.

Former President Donald Trump invited two rappers on stage at his recent rally who have been charged in a sweeping gang case.

Prosecutors in Brooklyn are for the first time retrying a long-ago case they won with the help of a former homicide detective whose work has been questioned.

Three men who spent decades in prison have been cleared in the killing of a clerk who was set on fire in a subway toll booth in New York's violent 1990s.

The district attorney said the case resulted in New York passing a law prohibiting police officers from having sex with people in custody, closing a loophole that allowed police to claim the sex was consensual. "The injustice was the DA's office positioning this as a rape case," he said. The detectives' DNA was recovered from the woman, prosecutor saysThe former detectives voluntarily resigned from the NYPD in November 2017. They were on-duty in a Dodge Caravan as part of a team of plainclothes detectives conducting a buy and bust operation, according to the district attorney. The district attorney said the woman had sexual intercourse with Martins and performed a sex act on Hall.

Alex Goodlett/Getty ImagesNEW YORK - Former NBA player Sebastian Telfair has been sentenced to three and a half years in prison for gun possession, Brooklyn District Attorney Eric Gonzalez announced Monday. Telfair was convicted of criminal possession of a weapon in April after officers found a gun in his car during a 2017 traffic stop. The officers who pulled Telfair over reported smelling the odor of marijuana and observed a lit marijuana cigarette in the car's console, the release from the district attorney's office said. After Telfair and a male passenger were arrested, officers searched the vehicle and recovered a loaded .45 caliber gun in the console, the district attorney's office said. "This defendant exercised his right to a jury trial and was found guilty of possessing an illegal firearm," Gonzalez said in a statement.

Columbine High School shooting survivor Samuel Granillo said not much is different today than it was 20 years ago. Searching for solutionsThe conversation ranged between obstacles to alleviating gun violence and solutions in light of two recent events. Eric Gonzalez, the Brooklyn district attorney whose brother was killed in gun violence in 1996, said he believes the NRA is to blame for not having "reasonable" gun control laws. He also disputed claims that video games or mental illness are the root causes of gun violence. He pointed to countries like Japan, which have violent video games but low levels of gun violence.