NEW YORK -- Most people who've done time in jail can't wait to get away. But this week, New York City authorities accused one former inmate of sneakin...
Last summer, a 25-year-old robbery suspect at Rikers Island took a ball of concentrated soap meant to clean his jail cell and swallowed it. Jason Eche...
It seems about right that it's raining as we drive over the bridge to Rikers Island in a prison van with metal grills over the windows. We're riding w...
Long before doctor and entrepreneur Paul Polak began trying to revolutionize social investing -- before he could even drive a car -- he was planting t...
Mayors around the nation are working to meet increased demands with fewer and fewer resources, making the need for public-sector innovation more important than ever.
My fundamental belief remains that the craft of small-business ownership holds the solution to creating sustainable employment for young people, particularly those in marginalized economic scenarios.
On the latest episode of "Big Ang" (Sun., 9 p.m. ET on VH1), Ang decided that maybe her son AJ just needed to move back in with mom. She told her frie...
The family of accused "millionaire madam" Anna Gristina have taken to the web to raise funds for her $2 million bail and to bring her home in time for...
Harold Wachtel, the epileptic 19-year-old charged with murdering his mother-- beloved La Guardia High School teacher, Pratt professor, and writer Kary...
This Thanksgiving through an extraordinary program, men on Rikers Island are giving back to the city by cooking turkeys and fixings for over 800 New Yorkers in need.
It was Marion's second date with Michael M. Smith, and he asked her whether she wanted to see his cemetery. She found herself at the Lent-Riker-Smith Homestead, the city's oldest house that's still used as a private home.
It's a perfect day. Blue skies dotted with cotton clouds and gentle breezes carry the unmistakable scent of the ocean. If I closed my eyes, I'd think I was in Martha's Vineyard. Instead, I see sunlight glinting off the barbed wire everywhere.
Animal New York reports today that New York City has beat out San Francisco for the top rank on WalkScore.com, which grades places on walking distance...
Here's a policy that won't go over well with the inmates. Rikers Island doesn't want to see lots of skin from its female visitors, reports the New Yor...
Who would have thought there would ever be an issue in our modern lives that could possibly bring together the abundant talents of Bernard-Henri Levy and Ben Stein?
NEW YORK -- The maid came from one of the world's poorest countries to the U.S., working to support the teen daughter she raised alone. The penthouse ...
Sabrina Milo was released from Riker's Island last night after meeting $100,000 dollars bail, WABC reports.
Milo, an art teacher at Ft. Hamilton Hig...