Mosi Secret The New York Times

Dominique Strauss-Kahn, the leader of the International Monetary Fund, was ordered on Monday to be held without bail over allegations that he had sexually assaulted a maid in a $3,000-a-night suite at a Midtown hotel.Prosecutors had asked the judge, Melissa Jackson, supervising judge of Manhattan Criminal Court, to remand Mr. Strauss-Kahn, 62, cont...

She died in September by the ugliest means, weighing an unthinkable 18 pounds, half of what a 4-year-old ought to. She withered in poverty in a home in Brooklyn where the authorities said she had been drugged and often bound to a toddler bed by her mother, having realized a bare thimble's worth of living.The horrid nature of Marchella Pierce's deat...

Visitors to the Bronx Zoo were greeted with locked doors when they tried to enter the reptile exhibit this past weekend, and with good reason: a venomous snake was on the loose.   "The World of Reptiles is closed today," a sign explaining the closing said. "Staff observed an adolescent Egyptian cobra missing from an off-exhibit enclosure ...

One victim, Cornelia Michel Crilley, was a Trans World Airlines flight attendant who was raped and strangled in her Upper East Side apartment in 1971; the other, Ellen Jane Hover, an aspiring orchestra conductor who disappeared one summer day in 1977 -- and whose remains were found nearly a year later on the Rockefeller estate in Westchester County...

Dominique Strauss-Kahn, the leader of the International Monetary Fund, was ordered on Monday to be held without bail over allegations that he had sexually assaulted a maid in a $3,000-a-night suite at a Midtown hotel.Prosecutors had asked the judge, Melissa Jackson, supervising judge of Manhattan Criminal Court, to remand Mr. Strauss-Kahn, 62, cont...

She died in September by the ugliest means, weighing an unthinkable 18 pounds, half of what a 4-year-old ought to. She withered in poverty in a home in Brooklyn where the authorities said she had been drugged and often bound to a toddler bed by her mother, having realized a bare thimble's worth of living.The horrid nature of Marchella Pierce's deat...

Visitors to the Bronx Zoo were greeted with locked doors when they tried to enter the reptile exhibit this past weekend, and with good reason: a venomous snake was on the loose.   "The World of Reptiles is closed today," a sign explaining the closing said. "Staff observed an adolescent Egyptian cobra missing from an off-exhibit enclosure ...

One victim, Cornelia Michel Crilley, was a Trans World Airlines flight attendant who was raped and strangled in her Upper East Side apartment in 1971; the other, Ellen Jane Hover, an aspiring orchestra conductor who disappeared one summer day in 1977 -- and whose remains were found nearly a year later on the Rockefeller estate in Westchester County...