Ailsa Chang

Jury selection in the trial of the rap artist Ja Rule is scheduled to begin Monday in Manhattan State Supreme Court. There have been several delays in the three-year-old illegal gun case and the trial could be postponed yet again. People watching the rapper's fading career say it's in his best interest for the case to keep getting dragged out.

Two teenagers once thought to be the perpetrators of a brutal anti-gay attack in the Bronx in October now appear to be named as victims.

A grand jury has brought more charges against the father of the man who plotted to blow up New York's subway system last September with homemade bombs. Federal prosecutors have adde...

Merchants on 161st Street in the Bronx are expecting this year's holiday shopping season to be dismal, after seeing sales sag ever since the new Yankee Stadium opened more than a year and a half ago. 

WNYC reporter Ailsa Chang talks about ProPublica's Dollars for Docs investigation and what some New York City doctors earn from the pharmaceutical industry.

Thousands of physicians all over the country get paid by pharmaceutical companies to speak about brand-name medications. Some have made more than $300,000 in speaking fees in the last...

This list is based on data released by ProPublica on Oct. 19, 2010. They identified 384 health providers who earned more than $100,000 total from one or more of the following seven companies that have disclosed payments in 2009 and early 2010: Pfizer, Merck, Johnson & Johnson, Eli Lilly, AstraZeneca, Cephalon and GlaxoSmithKline. ProPublica says it matched the payee records with licensed doctors and registered nurses. When a match could not be found, for example when a recipient was a pharmacist, ProPublica used other sources to confirm their identities. Read more about how ProPublica compiled this information here.

Former Queens state senator Hiram Monserrate is once again in trouble with the law.  Federal prosecutors say he took taxpayer money meant for a non-profit to fund his personal senate campaign in 2006.

Former State Sen. Hiram Monserrate is facing federal charges that he funded his 2006 campaign with money that was supposed to go to a charity. The indictment unsealed Tuesday charge...

A federal jury has convicted four Newburgh men of trying to blow up Bronx synagogues and shoot down military planes at Stewart International Airport last May.

Four Newburgh men have been convicted of trying to blow up Bronx synagogues and shoot down military planes after arguing they were illegally entrapped by a confidential FBI informant posing as a Pakistani terrorist.

An eleventh man is being charged in three anti-gay assaults and a robbery that occurred in the Bronx earlier this month. Advocates say that while they are grateful for the raised public awareness of hate crimes targeting LGBT individuals the incident has generated, attacks on lesbian and gay residents in New York City appear to be increasing.

The Bronx District Attorney has been granted extra time by the court to continue investigating before they indict ten defendants accused of carrying out anti-gay attacks on four men more than a week ago.

Federal prosecutors are touting it as the largest single Medicare fraud ever charged. More than 40 people have been indicted in New York as part of a nationwide investigation that s...

During opening arguments for the first civilian trial of a Guantanamo detainee, federal prosecutors say the man accused of helping bomb two embassies in Africa in 1998 was a member ...

The first civilian trial for a Guantanamo Bay detainee was delayed Wednesday after a Manhattan federal judge barred prosecutors from calling one of their most important witnesses.

The first civilian trial for a Guantanamo Bay detainee was delayed Wednesday after a Manhattan federal judge barred prosecutors from calling one of their most important witnesses. T...

The Pakistani immigrant who tried to kill Americans by driving a homemade car bomb into Times Square in May and leaving it to explode has been sentenced to life in prison. The judge gave Faisal Shahzad a mandatory life prison term at his sentencing Tuesday in Manhattan federal court.

The Pakistani immigrant who tried to kill Americans by driving a homemade car bomb into Times Square in May and leaving it to explode has been sentenced to life in prison. The judge gave Faisal Shahzad a mandatory life prison term at his sentencing Tuesday in Manhattan federal court.

The six-week trial of the four Newburgh men accused of planning to bomb Bronx synagogues and shoot down military planes last May has largely focused on a single question: were the ...