NEW YORK — Contract negotiations between New York City and NYPD sergeants — many of whom are now getting paid less than some police officers they oversee — have completely broken down, forcing the union to declare an impasse with city negotiators and ask for the assistance of an outside mediator, the Daily News has learned.

Vincent ...Read more

SAN DIEGO — Seizures at the California-Mexico border accounted for nearly half of all illegal drugs encountered by U.S. border authorities along the Southwest border in the last fiscal year, according to U.S. Customs and Border Enforcement data released this week.

In all, CBP seized more than 275,000 pounds of illegal drugs along the ...Read more

LAS VEGAS — Earlier this month, a jury sentenced a 54-year-old man to death for a 2012 murder — the first death penalty sentence a jury in Nevada has handed down in more than five years.

The jury found Robert Brown guilty of murdering his girlfriend, 29-year-old Nichole Nick, after breaking into her apartment, attacking her, shooting and ...Read more

BOISE, Idaho — Bryan Kohberger’s defense beat back at prosecutors’ plan to give an Ada County jury the option to hand the University of Idaho homicide suspect a death sentence in the latest court filings of the closely watched case.

Kohberger’s attorneys this week filed more than a dozen briefs to support their ongoing effort to strike ...Read more

The list of recalled foods and foodborne illness outbreaks has lately been a long one: Listeria in Boar’s Head deli meats, smoked salmon from Costco and frozen waffles from Aldi, Target and Walmart. E. coli in McDonald’s Quarter Pounders. Salmonella at Downtown Baltimore’s Fogo de Chao.

And, this week, a contaminated meal that sent dozens...Read more

ORLANDO, Fla. — Jurors expected to begin deliberating the fate of accused suitcase killer Sarah Boone on Friday evening will have additional options for convicting her besides the second-degree murder charge that put her on trial.

Boone, 47, charged in the February 2020 suffocation death of boyfriend Jorge Torres Jr., 42, inside a suitcase, ...Read more

John ‘J’ Vasquez went into prison at 16 years old and spent a decade becoming “worse inside” before he began to put in the work toward rehabilitation.

Sentenced to 15 years to life for a gang-related murder he committed as a teen, Vasquez spent more than 25 years bouncing around various California prisons before he was released on ...Read more

NEW YORK — Disgraced ex-Abercrombie CEO Mike Jeffries and one of his codefendants pleaded not guilty Friday to charges of sex trafficking and interstate prostitution at their arraignment in Central Islip’s federal court.

Jeffries and James Jacobson were released on bond — $10 million for the former fashion CEO and $500,000 for Jacobson, ...Read more

BALTIMORE — President Joe Biden plans to return to Baltimore next week to highlight his administration’s investments in infrastructure and his “pro-union” record, The Baltimore Sun has learned.

He plans to tout the effects of the 2021 Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, according to an administration release provided in advance of the ...Read more

It may not feel like it when the worst stomach flu of your life has you in its grip, but often, the best thing to do when you have E. coli is to rest and keep drinking beverages with electrolytes.

At least 26 people in Colorado and 49 others nationwide got sick from E. coli in an outbreak linked to McDonald’s Quarter Pounder hamburgers ...Read more

ORLANDO, Fla. — A NASA astronaut suffered a medical issue and remains hospitalized in Florida on Friday after returning to Earth from a nearly eight-month stay in space.

NASA did not reveal which of the three NASA astronauts of the four-person crew of the SpaceX Crew-8 mission suffered the issue, but said in a statement the person was in “...Read more

A decade ago, a few days before Halloween, a team of sociologists at Chapman University published the first “Survey of American Fears,” a poll of more than 1,000 Americans about the things that give them the willies.

The “American Fears” survey quickly became an annual media event, a social science version of Groundhog Day. Most years, ...Read more

SEATTLE — Because of his age and nearly two decades of legal precedent that requires courts to treat children differently from adults, the 15-year-old boy accused in a mass shooting near Fall City will have a far more complicated court case than if he were even a year older.

On Thursday, King County prosecutors charged the teenager in ...Read more

Royal Caribbean’s Allure of the Seas returned to Port Miami early Friday, concluding a Taylor Swift-themed cruise during which a woman fell from the ship’s 14th floor and into the water.

The 66-year-old passenger, who has not been identified, went overboard on Tuesday night around 9:30 p.m., a day after the cruise ship departed from Port ...Read more

NABATIEH, Lebanon — The Ottoman-era arches of this city's Old Market had stood witness to the many conflicts that have plagued Lebanon's south.

They tumbled, along with rest of the market, in an Israeli airstrike in Nabatieh. A few days later, another airstrike hit the city's municipal building, killing 16 people, including the mayor. Then a...Read more

A New Mexico judge has refused to revive Alec Baldwin's manslaughter case in the "Rust" movie shooting, denying a motion from the prosecutor who had asked the judge to reconsider her decision to clear Baldwin of criminal liability.

First Judicial Circuit Court Judge Mary Marlowe Sommer on Friday denied special prosecutor Kari T. Morrissey's ...Read more

CHICAGO — Rapper and Englewood native Lil Durk, born Durk Banks, was scheduled to take a private jet to Italy when he was arrested Thursday in Florida in connection with an alleged murder-for-hire plot, according to a federal criminal complaint unsealed in California on Friday.

Banks, 32, was charged in the complaint with contracting five ...Read more

Bird flu cases have more than doubled in the country within a few weeks, but researchers can’t determine why the spike is happening because surveillance for human infections has been patchy for seven months.

Just this week, California reported its 15th infection in dairy workers and Washington state reported seven probable cases in poultry ...Read more

California’s mental health commission on Thursday announced its executive director would resign amid revelations that he traveled to the U.K. courtesy of a state vendor while he sought to prevent a budget cut that would have defunded the company’s contract.

Toby Ewing, executive director of the Mental Health Services Oversight and ...Read more