Joseph Yannai, 67-year-old Westchester cookbook author and admitted "dirty old man," was found guilty yesterday of luring young foreign women to come work for him as assistants and then sexually abusing them in his Pound Ridge home. The married Yannai, who earlier this week tried to commit suicide for the second time since being arrested, phoned into court to hear the verdict. more ›

Two Pound Ridge, NY parents have been arrested for keeping their 17- and 19-year-old sons, both of who suffer from autism, in "extremely unsanitary conditions." But parents Jean and James Yates say cops overreacted to an apparent "holding pen" they had built for their 17-year-old so he "doesn't roam around at night and hurt himself." James Yates told LoHud, "This is a soccer net so he wouldn't climb over it. He's not strapped in, and is happy as can be." more ›

The great-grandson of one of an early owner of Macy's is being accused by a 52-year-old jewelry designer of imprisoning the woman and torturing her with, of all things, a lobster trap. Bette Marchek claims that William Straus kept her captive on his Westchester estate, starved her, beat her, and eventually attacked her with a lobster trap while the pair were on City Island in the Bronx. That was the figurative straw that broke the... more ›

Tired of that cramped studio? Dying to have a view other than a brick wall to look at? Has public urination gotten you down? more ›

An NYU senior with a major in math was arrested in his family Pound Ridge, NY home when bank and postal officials discovered he had been shuffling about $43 million in fake, certified check between banks in Greenwich, CT, and Switzerland, where there are many, many banks. Hakan Yalincak opened up a number of fake corporations and deposited fake checks into the bank accounts here and overseas. With millions in "phantom money" in each, he then transferred $2.5 million to a new account in Greenwich. It was when he tried to withdraw $1.7 million that Yalincak was caught, with bank officials wise to his scheme. At the court hearing, where his mother was weeping, the judge said that Yalincak had to stay in a Providence detention center until a hearing on Thursday, and Yalincak wailed, "I have a graduation on Wednesday." The Daily News had this comment from a twentysomething NYU alum: "Obviously, they're teaching them something at NYU." more ›