Howard Beach

Republican candidate Bob Turner -- who's running for the 9th district Congressional seat vacated by former Rep. Anthony Weiner after his sexting scandal -- is defending his use of the burning Twin Towers in a campaign ad targeting Democratic rival,...

A list of the Sept. 11, 2001, attack victims from data compiled by the National September 11 Memorial & Museum. The overall death toll from the attacks stands at 2,977 -- including 2,753 killed as a result of the attacks at the World Trade Center, 184...

The murder trial of 50-year-old Barbara Sheehan heated up Tuesday as the prosecutor hammered away at the Howard Beach mother of two, trying to chip away at her credibility. Subjects from guns and violence to dirty laundry and kinky sex were covered in the...

Jennifer Joyce can finally tell the story of how, and why, her mother Barbara Sheehan killed her husband Raymond, the father of her two children. "It was a huge relief," Joyce said of at last having her father out of their lives. "It sounds horrible to...

The intrigue surrounding the Barbara Sheehan murder trial isn't solely based on what happened inside the Sheehan family home in Howard Beach, before Barbara Sheehan admittedly gunned down her husband, Raymond. As the case nears a jury decision, there is...

Barbara Sheehan has been acquitted on charges of murder in the second degree, but that does not necessarily mean she's able to go free. The jury of nine women and three men concluded that Sheehan acted in self defense when she shot and killed her ex-cop...

Barbara Sheehan is a free woman Monday, able to be with her family and children after nearly two weeks behind bars despite being acquitted of murdering her husband. But the question that truly hasn't been answered is should she ever have been put there in...

In the years between Barbara Sheehan killing her husband in self defense and her acquittal for the fatal shooting, her family has voted with their feet and with their pocketbooks to keep her out of jail on bail. Now that she's fighting a criminal weapons...

Riker's Island is only a few miles away from Howard Beach, yet getting from one location to the other took weeks for Barbara Sheehan. Acquitted of gunning down her husband Raymond on October 6th, the mother of two is finally home. She was allowed to...

After an emotional trial that made national headlines, it was finally judgment day for Barbara Sheehan. On Thursday, a judge sentenced the Queens mother to five years in jail for a weapons possession charge stemming from the murder of her husband....

The life of Barbara Sheehan, the woman acquitted of murdering her abusive husband, is in limbo while she awaits her appeal on a lesser charge, criminal weapons possession, to which she was sentenced to five years in prison on Thursday. "Plaxico Burress...

  LOS ANGELES (AP) — Casey Abrams didn't need any help from his friends to shine on "American Idol." The quirky 30-year-old film camp counselor from Idyllwild, Calif., wowed the judges with his energetic take on Joe Cocker's rendition of "With A...