Jamaican immigrant David Christie, 44, was sentenced on Friday (February 3) to 20 years in prison for his role in conspiring to import multiple kilogram-quantities of cocaine and marijuana into the United States using commercial airlines, and to distribute those drugs in major U.S. cities, including New...
The Bronx pastor charged with raping a 12-year-old girl from his flock turned down a “sweetheart” plea deal that came with three years in prison. Michael Clare, 38, refused the offer from prosecutors, despite “almost irrefutable proof” he impregnated the child, said Bronx Supreme...
New Yorkers who get undeserved parking tickets can now contest them online. Mayor Michael Bloomberg and other city officials unveiled a new program on Monday (March 21) that allows New Yorkers to dispute tickets online.
The site has a space to let a user make his or her case and upload pictures or...
Assemblyman William Scarborough helped pass an Assembly budget that rejects the executive budget proposal to cut taxes for the state’s wealthiest. “With a $10 billion deficit and scores of painful cuts on the tables, including sizeable reductions in critical education and health care programs,...
Brooklyn State Senator Kevin Parker was sentenced Monday to three years’ probation and will pay $1,000 for his conviction on charges stemming from a scuffle outside his home. The senator was found guilty of two misdemeanors in December for assaulting a New York Post photographer in 2009.
Parker must...
The Manhattan-based law firm and sponsor of the ‘Law Link’ program on Link Up Radio/WVIP 93.5 FM, Spar & Bernstein, was sued for blowing the legal deadline (the “statute of limitations”) on a possible medical malpractice action surrounding Pearson’s medical care.
According to papers filed in...
