Colleen Long
The Archive
Prior jurors influenced jury in Etan Patz case: defense attorneys
The murder conviction in a retrial over the 1979 disappearance and death of 6-year-old Etan Patz should be thrown out because the jury knew jurors from the first trial were...
Bus fake gets brake
A man arrested more than two dozen times for posing as a transit worker to steal buses and trains and drive the routes was sentenced yesterday to 2 1/2 to...
DC appeals for ‘Plan B’ delay
The Obama administration yesterday filed a last-minute appeal to delay the sale of the morning-after contraceptive pill to girls of any age without a prescription.It asked the 2nd US Circuit...
Etan suspect near release
While prosecutors weigh what to do about a suspect who surprisingly surfaced this spring in the landmark 1979 disappearance of Etan Patz, the man who was the prime suspect for...
Russell Crowe’s sea scare
Russell Crowe was hardly the master and commander of this ship. The 48-year-old actor was lost for 4 1/2 hours while kayaking with a friend Saturday on Long Island Sound,...
Ray explains ‘shoot down’
In his first remarks about an attention-grabbing claim that police had the means to shoot down a terrorist plane, Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly said yesterday that the department could arm...
Gov't lets BP mind the 'cap'
NEW ORLEANS -- The federal government yesterday allowed BP to keep the cap shut tight on its ruptured Gulf of Mexico oil well for another day, despite news the well...