The horse, Ryder, died months after the Aug. 22 incident when he collapsed on a busy Manhattan street after allegedly lugging ...

The veteran New York City carriage driver, who has driven horses in Manhattan for more than 30 years, was accused of pushing his elderly horse, Ryder, to work on an 84-degree August day for several ...

NYC carriage horse handler Ian McKeever was accused of injuring animals after a horse named Ryder collapsed in Hell's Kitchen ...

A Manhattan jury found a Central Park carriage horse driver not guilty of abusing a horse that collapsed in Midtown on a hot summer day in 2022.

Two Hell’s Kitchen residents testified Wednesday in the second day of the trial of carriage driver Ian McKeever, offering emotional and detailed accounts of the moments after the carriage horse Ryder ...

Carriage driver Ian McKeever was found not guilty Monday of overdriving Ryder, the horse who collapsed at W45th Street and 9th Avenue in August 2022 — bringing an end to a high-profile trial that ...

A New York horse carriage driver has been acquitted of animal cruelty. The verdict came Monday in a rare criminal trial about the ornate coaches that carry sightseers around New York’s Central ...

McKeever has been a carriage horse driver for 30 years. His attorney said Ryder belonged to the defendant's brother. The horse was outside for over seven hours on Aug. 10, 2022, mostly in Central ...

Video went viral of Ian McKeever's carriage horse, named Ryder, on the ground at 45th Street and Ninth Avenue in Manhattan on Aug. 10, 2022.

McKeever, 56, is charged with overdriving, torturing and injuring animals as well as failure to provide proper sustenance. Prosecutors allege McKeever, who has worked in the industry for decades ...

Ian McKeever, 54, was arraigned on a charge of overdriving, torturing and injuring an animal or failure to provide proper sustenance for his treatment of the horse, Ryder, on Aug. 10, 2022, when ...

Ian McKeever, the carriage horse driver, was in court Wednesday, facing animal cruelty charges. His arraignment Wednesday reignited calls for a ban on the industry.