A contractor hired by New York City to overhaul its 911 system may have received as much as $163 million in unjustified payments, city Comptroller John Liu announced Wednesday, saying he had asked

The man who has confessed to killing the 6-year-old boy at the heart of one of the nation's most prominent missing-child cases remained in a psychiatric hospital as court-appointed doctors

Pedro Hernandez has confessed to killing the 6-year-old boy at the heart of one of the nation's most prominent missing-child cases, police say. And he has schizophrenia and a history of

The sister of a man who confessed last week to the 1979 killing of 6-year-old Etan Patz in New York City says she went to police in Camden, N.J., years ago to report a rumor he had confessed at a

For prosecutors, the work is just beginning after the astonishing arrest last week of a man who police say confessed to strangling a 6-year-old New York City boy 33 years ago in one of the