The office for Bernard Madoff’s sole auditor exudes anything but wealth and intrigue: It is next door to a pediatrician in a drab suburban building. The tiny storefront is discreetly labeled “Friehling & Horowitz” on its single glass door.

Prosecutors dropped all charges Thursday against a woman accused of burning her son in an oven, saying that continuing with the case would harm the boy.

A former prosecutor was sentenced Wednesday to two years in prison for having sex with boys, after her 16-year-old daughter told the judge she and her mother had competed for the same 15-year-old boy.Beth Modica, 44, wept as her daughter Danielle told...

A man convicted of firing a rifle inside a courtroom at a woman who had accused him of groping her was sentenced Monday to 25 years in prison.Rockland County Judge Victor Alfieri imposed the maximum sentence on Leo Lewis, 60, for attempted murder and...

A jury on Wednesday convicted a man of firing a sawed-off rifle inside a courtroom in an attempt to kill the woman who had accused him of groping her.Leo Lewis, 60, had been acquitted of a sex-abuse charge brought by the woman and was suing her for legal.

A man who fired a rifle in a courtroom, sending a bullet whizzing past the head of the judge, was not trying to kill a woman who had accused him of groping her, his lawyer said Tuesday.Attorney Barry Weiss asked jurors in Rockland County Court to acquit..

A man who smuggled a sawed-off rifle into a courtroom and tried to kill a woman who had accused him of groping her decided “he was going to be the executioner” even though he had been cleared, a prosecutor said Wednesday as the man’s trial opened.Leo...