Tags: New York

The number of deaths from accidental overdoses of opioid drugs has steadily risen in New York City since 2010, in part because of an apparent resurgence in heroin use, according to data released on Thursday by the city's health department.

A case on appeal would need to determine if there is a need to prove benefit redounding to tipper to be known by tippee in order to be convicted of insider trading.

In 1975, at 18, David Bryant was locked up for the conviction of raping and murdering 8-year-old Karen Smith in a Bronx apartment building. Last Thursday, after 38 years, has been released by a judge who said he was never given a fair trial.