Yesterday, a jury of eight men and four women found Robert Williams guilty of 44 counts, including, per the Post, "attempted murder, kidnapping, arson, burglary, robbery, 10 assault charges, five separate rapes and 11 incidents of sodomy," related to his 19-hour rape and torture of a Columbia University graduate student in her Hamilton Heights apartment a year ago. According to his lawyer, Williams, who has rarely been in court during the trial, responded to the......

In April 2007, a Columbia graduate student was raped and tortured for 19 hours in her Hamilton Terrace apartment. More than a year later, her suspected rapist is now in court, facing 71 criminal charges including attempted murder, arson, rape and sodomy. Assistant District Attorney Ann Prunty describe the harrowing ordeal in her opening statement. From the NY Times:Over many torturous hours, [the victim] had been repeatedly raped, sodomized and forced to perform oral sex,......

Brooklyn prosecutors have charged a landlord with trying to kill a tenant. Yung Tang is accused of attempted murder, assault and arson for the 2002 incident. According to prosecutors, Tang wanted to evict tenant Israel Halberstam, who was $100,000 behind on rent on an electronics showroom space. Tang planted a homemade bomb under Halberstam's minivan; when the tenant moved his vehicle, the bomb exploded and he lost a leg. Initially, the incident worried people that......

A 7-week-old baby who has been beaten since he was just 2 weeks old is now brain dead at Elmhurst Hospital, after his mother admitted to beating her son and then dropping him on his head. And the Daily News reports that the Administration for Children's Services had visited mother Kiana Perez just two days before. Perez, an ex-junkie whose first child was taken away by ACS but was allowed to keep baby Pablo because......

Police netted the suspected gunman in a shootout that brought some real March madness to a Bronx sports bar Sunday night. Luis Paulino was arrested and charged with murder, attempted murder, and criminal possession of a weapon for opening fire on the patrons and staff of the Oasis Cafe, which is located on Jamaica Avenue in the Norwood neighborhood of the Bronx. Paulino reportedly was having an argument with another patron at the bar and......