The court-appointed remediation manager responsible for addressing the deeply rooted dysfunction and violence on Rikers ...
Catherine Nolan, who represented Queens in the State Assembly for nearly four decades, passed away on Wednesday, one day ...
The courtroom was packed on Tuesday for the start of the trial of Guy Rivera, who is accused of shooting and killing a police ...
The Queens district attorney's office told a judge on Thursday that it plans to appeal her January decision to vacate the conviction of Allen Porter, a 54-year-old who served over three decades in ...
Several major charges brought against a Texas man accused of making menacing phone calls and sending Islamophobic and expletive-laced emails to Mayor Zohran Mamdani were dropped Thursday after a ...
The Queens district attorney’s office quietly brought charges against Jabez Chakraborty, a 23-year-old Queens man with schizophrenia who was shot by police during a mental health crisis in late ...
New York’s top judge last week bashed the state’s sentencing laws, claiming “everything we are doing here is stupid,” while continuing his public plea for lawmakers to pass sentencing reforms.
Queens residents told the city how they feel about their landlords at the Mamdani’s first “rental ripoff” hearing in the ...
The state legislature this week proposed boosting a civil legal services fund in its one-house budgets that attorneys say was severely underfunded in Governor Kathy Hochul’s executive budget proposal.
Queens City Councilmember Vickie Paladino is suing her colleagues after the legislature’s ethics committee charged her with ...
A library at the women’s jail on Rikers Island reopened this week after the resource had been shut down for nearly a year as ...
A decomposing head was found in the Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge late Thursday night, prompting a major law enforcement ...