Law & Society

Complaining that the NYPD supervise and retain the records of what they overheard at the public areas where Muslims eat, shop and worship, civil rights lawyers wrote in a recent court filing that the NYPD violates Handschu guidelines and has restored the banned political surveillance of 1960s and 1970s.

Chicago authorities re-captured convicted murderer, Steven Robbins, who they say was mistakenly released from police custody.

Sarai Sierra, a 33-year-old mother of two, who went missing while vacationing alone in Istanbul in January, and was last heard from on January 21, the day she was due to fly back to New York, was apparently stabbed to death.