Prosecutors across New York had to review closed criminal cases because a now-dead forensic scientist routinely failed to perform mandatory tests and then fraudulently wrote up results, state officials said in a report released Thursday. Garry Veeder's misconduct went undetected for years because of ...

Officials say the head of New York's Parole Division is resigning after investigators accused him of stealing a government laptop that his teenage son used to look up adult Web sites. Inspector General Joseph Fisch says Parole Board Chairman George Alexander took the ...