Ailsa Chang

More than a thousand New Yorkers have been whittled down to 60 to 70 prospective jurors for the first civilian trial of a Guantanamo detainee.

The Executive Director of the City Board of Elections says the main reason for voting problems on Primary Day is chronic underfunding. George Gonzalez says if the Board had millions of dollars more, it could have hired more workers and conducted better public education campaigns about the new voting system.

The first civilian trial of a Guantanamo detainee begins Wednesday in Manhattan federal court. But legal experts warn not to draw too many parallels between the trial of Ahmed Khalf...

Public Advocate Bill de Blasio says the city Department of Education and the Police Department share responsibility with the City Board of Elections for the widespread voting problems on Primary Day.

The city will get a lot of rain this week and chances are you'll be caught on a street, desperate to buy the first cheap umbrella you can find. And chances are that umbrella will br...

Jury selection is under way in the trial of the first Guantanamo detainee transferred to the civilian system. But residents around the federal courthouse in Lower Manhattan say they haven't noticed any increase in security in their neighborhood.

People do dumb things on Facebook, and that's why lawyers love it. Now the New York State Bar Association says it's ethical for lawyers to scour Facebook and other social media Web sites to get dirt in lawsuits.

A Pakistani neuroscientist has been sentenced to 86 years in prison for trying to kill FBI agents and military officers while she was in custody in Afghanistan.

New York City will be getting $18.5 million in federal funding to maintain its dirty-bomb detection system, according to U.S. Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand. 

Everybody's ganging up on the New York City Board of Elections -- and it's just not fair.  That's what Executive Director George Gonzalez and Board commissioners say.

At the Board's first public meeting since widespread problems were reported at polling places across the city on Primary Day,  Gonzalez vented about how many of the voting mishaps last Tuesday were simply out of his control.  The commissioners seated around him nodded and murmured, reassuring each other at various points during the hearing that they are not bad people nor political hacks.

Governor Paterson has signed into law a new bill ensuring that all polling sites be uniformly accessible to disabled voters by 2012, as mandated by the Americans with Disabilities Act. The law prevents County Boards of Elections from obtaining temporary waivers for sites that are currently inaccessible.

Mayor Bloomberg said Monday that nearly four hundred people from the city's police, fire, sanitation and parks departments are still working everyday to help the city recover from last week's tornados. The mayor said the city's first priority has been to remove trees blocking streets. He expects all streets to be clear by the end of Tuesday.

For the first time, the city police department now has instant access to almost 500 video cameras installed in New York's busiest subway stations. Cameras located above turnstiles, platforms and entrances at Times Square, Penn Station and Grand Central are now feeding into a police database being monitored 24 hours a day at a location near Wall Street.

Police Commissioner Ray Kelly says the city spends between five to seven million dollars each year protecting dignitaries who attend the United Nations General Assembly.

If you're paid to lie, you have to be a skillful liar to do the job right. A natural.

That's how defense lawyers want to portray Shahed Hussain -- the confidential FBI informant at the center of the trial for four Newburgh men accused of trying to blow up Bronx synagogues and shoot down military planes in May 2009. Hussain is the government's main witness, and defense lawyers say he was a lifelong liar -- someone who could hardly be credible on a witness stand now.

With less than 60 days before the general election, the city must figure out what went so wrong with the new voting system on Primary Day and how to fix those problems. Election watch...

Mayor Bloomberg had harsh words on primary day for the way the election was being run in New York City.

The city's first primary day with the new paper ballot system has been bumpy, to say the least. Problems have been reported throughout the five boroughs, and Mayor Bloomberg himself called it a “royal screw-up.”  A lot of the problems had to do with the new voting machines that use optical scanning instead of levers to count votes. Some listeners told WNYC that their experience went smoothly, but far more said they had trouble reading the small print, there wasn't enough privacy, the ballot design was confusing, scanners were broken, and, the blooper we feel takes the cake: a few polling stations were even missing ballots.

Voting rights advocates are poised with poll watchers, online surveys and phone hotlines to record what they think is going to be a chaotic day as New York City residents try out new ...

A financial advisor to Hollywood stars has pleaded guilty to fraud and money laundering charges in Manhattan federal court.