NEW YORK (WPIX) – Newark Mayor Cory Booker is firing back at late night funny man Conan O’Brien after the comedian took a cheap shot at his city on “The Tonight Show” last week.
The fabulous …

HEMPSTEAD, N.Y. (WPIX) – A 20-year-old murder case on Long Island has been solved thanks to DNA evidence.
The body of Dorothy LeConte, a Haitian woman from North Bergen, N.J, was found dumped near Hempstead High …

PORT ORANGE, Fla. — The father of a 14-year-old boy who died of a prescription drug overdose was arrested on Wednesday afternoon in connection with the incident.
Michael Reese was taken into custody on a charge …

STILLWATER, Oklahoma – A professor at OSU received $1.1 million in stimulus funds to study Alaskan grandparents.
The National Science Foundation made the grant possible through their stimulus funding. Now some Oklahomans are speaking out calling the project another example …

LOS ANGELES — A hospital security guard is under arrest for looting during the June 14, 2009 melee that followed the Lakers championship game. It’s twentieth arrest related to the violence, police said.
L.A.P.D. Lt. Paul …

According to the TimesOnline, Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi has called President Obama “tanned” again — but this time he did not miss the opportunity to joke about the First Lady’s skin color as well.
After …

OSLO, Norway — Actor Will Smith and his wife Jada Pinkett Smith, will co-host this year’s Nobel Peace Prize Concert in Oslo, organizers said Wednesday.
The Dec. 11 show — a day after the award ceremony …

LONGWOOD, Fla. — A mother was arrested Tuesday evening and charged with strangling and killing her 2-year-old daughter using her hands and bra.
Nioshka Bello was charged with first-degree murder as she was being released …

Cleveland Dealer – East Cleveland voters must of not have liked what they saw from their Mayor late last week as Eric Brewer lost the primary by a margin of 2-1 to challenger Gary Norton. …

SHEBOYGAN, Wis. — The attorney for the former human resources director for the city of Sheboygan has released her client’s side of the story about her firing in August.
Angela Payne was terminated on Aug. 6 …

CHICAGO — Prosecutors say an 18-year-old delivered the “knock out” punch of a Chicago Honors Roll student that was beat to death on his way home from school, MyFOXChicago.com reported.
Eugene Bailey is one of …

CHICAGO — A former handyman was convicted Tuesday in the slayings of seven people whose bodies were found in a walk-in freezer and cooler at a suburban Chicago fast food restaurant 16 years ago.
James Degorski, …

LAS VEGAS — When ACORN took to Las Vegas and started playing “Blackjack” and “21,” the activist group was making a far bigger gamble than it ever guessed, according to Nevada prosecutors.
There’s nothing wrong …

PHILADELPHIA — A former Ivy League professor will serve 25 years for making child pornography and lying to authorities to get a teen victim into the United States.
Prosecutors say former University of Pennsylvania professor …

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (SUBMITTED) — A Statewide Tennessee Endangered Child Alert has been issued by the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation for 12 year old pregnant Keara Hess and 11 year old Sierra Hess.

Keara and Sierra are …

OKLAHOMA CITY — A woman accused of beating her 14-year-old son frequently tied him up to prevent him from escaping and had a lock installed on a bedroom closet where he often was kept for …

(CNN) — The social networking site Facebook on Monday pulled a third-party application that allows users to create polls after a site member built a poll asking if President Obama should be killed.
There are more …

SOMERVILLE, N.J. — A New Jersey prosecutor who heads the office that tried Jayson Williams for manslaughter says he reacted with “anger and disappointment” when he found out that an investigator had used a racial …

SEATTLE — A King County sheriff’s deputy accused of beating a teenage girl in a jail cell was fired earlier this month, the sheriff’s office said Monday.
A jail cell surveillance camera showed the incident last …

CINCINNATI — A Hamilton County man could be put to death if he is convicted of killing his toddler son.
The Hamilton County prosecutor said Monday that James Lyons has been indicted on an aggravated murder …