The NY Times is reporting that the Nets won't be playing in Brooklyn for the 2009-2010 season because the arena won't be finished until 2010. The Times attributes the delay to legal challenges. The most publicized lawsuit is the federal case brought by 13 property owners and tenants. The suit alleges that the taking of their property via eminent domain was unconstitutional. In June, a US District Court judge dismissed the case, finding that... more ›

Yesterday morning, Paulino Valenzuela, who had formerly worked at the massive Bronx housing development Co-op City as a janitor and porter, returned on a shooting rampage, killing a former supervisor and inuring two other men. Then he took the bus and subway to a Bronx courthouse and, covered in blood, he confessed to court officers, "Cuff me, because I just killed somebody. I have my revolver in my bag, and I have the blood on my hands to prove it." Court officers found a .38 caliber pistol in his bag. more ›

The jurors listened to testimony from September 11 attack victims' families yesterday during the death penalty sentencing trial of Zacarais Moussaoui, a confessed conspirator in the plots. The families-turned-witnesses cried, and jurors themselves cried with them. US District Court Judge Leonie Brinkema did note that Moussaoui's lawyers feel the prosecution's presentation was overly dramatic, leading her to limit prosecution witnesses to five photographs each. more ›