Exonerated “Central Park Five” member Yusef Salaam is poised to win a seat Tuesday on the New York City Council, marking a stunning reversal of fortune for a political newcomer who was wrongly ...

The lawsuit claims Trump acted with "reckless disregard" for the truth when he falsely stated that the group pleaded guilty to raping and beating a woman as she jogged through Manhattan in 1989. "The ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. New York City Council Member Yusef Salaam, a ...

A New York organization that promotes mystery and detective fiction is under fire for honoring a best-selling crime novelist who, before she turned to writing, oversaw the prosecution of five teenage ...

Yusef Salaam, a key figure in the infamous "Central Park Five" case, has moved one step closer to securing a seat on the New York City Council. In Tuesday's Democratic primary election, Salaam emerged ...

NEW YORK (AP) — A co-defendant of the so-called Central Park Five, whose convictions in a notorious 1989 rape of a jogger were thrown out more than a decade later, had his conviction on a related ...

A federal judge declined to toss a defamation lawsuit against President Trump over his remarks last year about five Black and Hispanic men wrongly convicted of a 1989 rape, dubbed the Central Park ...