A Rockland County funeral home director faces more than a hundred criminal counts after investigators found that he was embezzling his clients’ money for almost a decade. He pleaded not guilty to all the felony charges. A grand jury charged Leonard Scarr, 53, with 105 criminal counts in addition to a prior nine-count indictment. He…

Three teenagers were arrested in the fatal stabbing of a 20-year-old woman in the stairwell of a New York City apartment building. Law enforcement believed the incident occurred in connection with explicit photos that were posted online. Nyla Bond suffered stab wounds to her chest in her father’s apartment building in the Bronx. She was…

A man from Canastota, New York, pleaded guilty in federal court to one count of sexual exploitation of a child. He admitted to taking sexually explicit photos of a 6-year-old child on three different occasions, according to federal officials. John T. Flinn, 26, faces between 15 to 30 years in prison along with a maximum…

The U.S. Second Circuit Court of Appeals in New York has put a temporary hold on the repeal of a policy that prevents police disciplinary records from being disclosed. The court made the decision after hearing arguments from police unions that claimed making the records public would be dangerous. A section of the state civil…