Jelani Maraj, brother of rapper Nicki Minaj, was sentenced Monday morning to 25 years to life in prison for repeatedly raping an 11-year-old girl at his Long Island home, a spokesperson for the Nassau County District Attorney’s Office told NBC News. Maraj was convicted in November 2017 of predatory sexual assault against a child and endangering the welfare of a…

Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus first wowed audiences in the 19th century. For the iconic American spectacle’s final act, it will broadcast the final performance on a 21st century medium: Facebook Live.

Eight teenagers have been arrested in connection with a fatal attack on a Long Island high school student during an after-school fight.

A car smashed into the lobby of a Trump building in New Rochelle, police said.

A Florida couple arrested on DUI and other charges are accused of having sex in the back of a patrol car after they were taken into custody.

Gary Ray Bowles, 57, drew the death sentence for his conviction in the November 1994 murder of Walter Hinton in Jacksonville Beach — one of the six known killings in 1994 that terrorized the Interstate 95 corridor.

Police in the New York City suburbs say they’ve arrested a fake cop who tried to pull over real detectives. Nassau County police said Valiery Portlock sounded a horn and flashed emergency lights Friday morning as he an attempt to pull over a van in Hicksville, Long Island. The unmarked van turned out to be occupied by detectives from the...

The three passengers of a small plane made a lucky escape late Sunday night after they ran out of fuel, clipped power lines and came down nose first in the yard of a Long Island home.

Police say a 36-year-old Florida man is accused of stabbing a woman with a fork over an undercooked potato.

A 15-year-old driver has been charged in an SUV that crashed on Meadowbrook State Parkway, killing three teens and injuring herself and seven others.

Nassau County Sheriff Bill Leeper told reporters that the death was “totally preventable” and is a “sad reminder that when your child is in or near the water, you need to keep your eyes on them at all times.”

Police in New Jersey say a man suspected of driving while intoxicated told them he fled the scene of a crash because he felt scared in “redneck country.”

Under a bill passed by the Florida Legislature this year, any district resident — regardless of whether they have a child in school — can now challenge material.

The brother of rapper Nicki Minaj has been convicted of predatory sexual assault after being charged with repeatedly raping an 11-year-old girl at his Long Island home.

A jury on Wednesday began deliberating child rape allegations against the brother of superstar rapper Nicki Minaj. Jelani Maraj, 38, faces up to life in prison if jurors convict him of charges that he repeatedly raped an 11-year-old girl at his home in Baldwin, a Long Island suburb.

Georgia police shot and killed a Bengal tiger on Wednesday after it escaped from a truck and wandered along a major interstate near Atlanta, frightening residents of a nearby subdivision. Feld Entertainment spokesman Stephen Payne said Suzy, a 6-year-old Bengal tiger that had once performed in the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus, somehow got loose when the truck...

For some, it was The Art of the Steal. Hundreds of people swarmed the lobby of Atlantic City’s Trump Taj Mahal casino on Thursday, hoping to score big. But they weren’t gamblers. They were bargain hunters searching for rock-bottom deals at a liquidation sale of the contents of the ostentatious casino that Donald Trump built in 1990 as a monument...

Longtime friends of Robert Durst are fighting in a New York court to avoid being sent to testify in California in pretrial hearing in the millionaire’s murder case.