Ailsa Chang

Well-known business leaders in New York sent a letter Thursday night to Governor Andrew Cuomo and legislative leaders in support of gay marriage. The plea arrived just as the governor and gay rights advocates prepare a strong push for legislation this spring.

The City Council has voted to give New Yorkers a tiny break from alternate side parking rules.

WNYC reporter Ailsa Chang joins us to discuss part two of her report on the way NYPD's stop-and-frisk policy results in high numbers of low-level marijuana arrests.

Illegal searches are more common than people realize, but few end up getting challenged in court, law enforcement officials and defense attorneys say.

One hundred and forty people are arrested for minor drug offenses every day in New York City. WNYC reporter Ailsa Chang reports on a WNYC investigation into whether the high rate of marijuana arrests could be connected to the City's stop-and-frisk policy - and to illegal searches by the police. 

See a map below of Stop and Frisk arrests.

Police arrest 140 people every day in New York City for possessing small amounts of marijuana. It's now by far the most common misdemeanor charge in the city, and thousands of the...

Defense lawyers for two New York City cops charged with rape quizzed the alleged victim about the night she said she was raped on Friday in an attempt to show the jury that her memory of the evening was unreliable. The woman, who was drunk and slipped in and out of consciousness, has testified that there are parts of the night that she does not recall.

The woman at the center of a rape case against two New York City cops took the stand Thursday to give a tearful account of what she said happened after Officers Kenneth Moreno and Fra...

Jurors heard recordings of what prosecutors claim are one of two New York City police officers accused of raping an intoxicated woman making a false call to 911 so they could be sent back to her East Village block.

The woman accusing two New York City police officers of rape is expected to take the stand Monday as the prosecution's central witness.  It will be her first public appearance since the alleged December 2008 assault.

One of the largest construction companies in the country will cough up nearly $20 million to settle criminal allegations that it defrauded the government — but legal experts say the settlement may strengthen the ability of Skanska USA Civil Northeast, Incorporated to win more public contracts in the future.

Former Comptroller Alan Hevesi, who is awaiting sentencing for trading access to the state's public pension system for money and other perks, has been hospitalized for unspecified reasons. 

The first New York City police officer killed in the line of duty this year was honored by the city during a memorial service Friday in East Islip, Long Island.

Brooklyn State Senator Carl Kruger and Assemblyman William Boyland, Jr. are among eight people facing public corruption charges for what federal prosecutors in Manhattan call a wide-ranging bribery scheme based on "an unholy alliance of politicians, lobbyists and businessmen."

Spring is just around the corner, but the fallout from the city's sluggish response to last December's blizzard may be just beginning.

Public employee unions in New York City are mobilizing their members to travel to Wisconsin in a show of solidarity with the labor protests swelling in the state capital.

Five officers who helped rescue two West Point cadets from a 500-foot cliff in upstate New York over the weekend were honored by New York City Commissioner Ray Kelly on Tuesday, who called the mission a "daring rescue."

The problem-plagued crime lab in Nassau County was abruptly shuttered Friday after authorities uncovered a series of drug-testing mistakes.

Women's right advocates say the stabbing rampage that left four people dead this weekend is a chilling reminder of how dangerous it can be when stalking goes unreported.

A wave of hundreds of Egyptians flooded on to the streets of Little Egypt in Astoria, Queens, on Friday following news that President Hosni Mubarak stepped down. Listen to Live Co...