Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg and New York City prosecutors have asked the United States Supreme Court to reinstate the conviction of Pedro Hernandez, the man who was found guilty in 2017 of murdering and kidnapping six-year-old Etan Patz in 1979.

Patz vanished on May 25, 1979 while walking two blocks from his SoHo apartment to the bus. Police interviewed Hernandez, then an 18-year-old bodega clerk, as part of their investigation but didn’t identify him as a suspect at the time.

The U.S. Supreme Court has revived a lawsuit filed by a group of Amish parents against a New York state law that removes a religious exemption to school immunizations.

At least four Brooklyn judges have bizarrely recused themselves from a legal case involving more than $2 million in allegedly missing investor money and a longtime local Democratic power broker.

The anti-immigration organization has pushed back against subpoenas from the New York attorney general’s probe into the far-right group’s financial affairs and self-dealing.

Fifth Judicial District voters elected three Democrats to the four available seats on the state Supreme Court, reversing a trend of 17 Republicans elected for the previous 23 seats. A New York State Supreme Court district that has historically voted for ...