Corey Kilgannon

2 weeks ago | nytimes.com | Corey Kilgannon |Maia Coleman

After Andre Brown's 40-year sentence was overturned, he went free. The Bronx district attorney appealed, and now he is set to return to prison and leave his wife and children. After Andre Brown spent 23 years behind bars, found guilty of shooting and wounding two men on a Bronx street in 1999, his conviction was overturned on the grounds that he had a shoddy trial lawyer.

3 weeks ago | ourcommunitynow.com | Maia Coleman |Corey Kilgannon

Share Police officials on Wednesday named a woman and her 2-year-old child whose bodies were found near the desolate stretch of Long Island seafront that was the scene of the Gilgo Beach serial killings.The woman had long been known as Jane Doe No. 3 — or Peaches, after a fruit tattoo on her torso — and was thought to be the mother of the toddler whose body was also found along the South Shore beach.She was Tanya Denise Jackson and her daughter was Tatiana Marie Dykes, Detective Capt.

3 weeks ago | nytimes.com | Corey Kilgannon |Maia Coleman

Police officials on Wednesday announced the identities of a woman and her 2-year-old child, whose bodies were found near the desolate stretch of Long Island seafront that was the scene of the Gilgo Beach serial killings. The woman had long been known as Jane Doe No. 3 - or "Peaches," after a fruit tattoo - and was thought to be the mother of a toddler whose body was also found along the South Shore's beachfront.

1 month ago | nytimes.com | Corey Kilgannon

"Living the dream."That was how Seankese Johnson, 36, described his new career as a New York City commercial helicopter pilot, flying sightseeing tours around Manhattan. The phrase was the headline atop his LinkedIn page on Friday, even as news spread among loved ones that he was the pilot of the helicopter that crashed into the Hudson River on Thursday afternoon, killing him and a family of five tourists from Spain.

1 month ago | nytimes.com | Corey Kilgannon

"Nobody should be making money off this tragic crime," Mr. Wallace said. "If there are profits, they should go toward the families of victims, not to set up a trust fund for his kids."Mr. Jones was known as Ru-Al growing up in Compton, Calif., as a member of the Bloods street gang.