Breaking from the New York City and State Bar Associations, several bar associations representing Latino and Hispanic legal professionals have begun to voice their opposition to court leaders’ plan to reform the state’s decades-old court structure.
Read MoreRally-goers called for federal abortion protection to be signed into law and for better support for those seeking abortions in states likely to implement restrictive laws if the SCOTUS decision is made official.
Read MoreA Queens Supreme Court judge has called for an unscheduled conference in the case of Prakash Churaman, who is weeks away from being tried a second time for the 2014 murder of 21-year-old Taquane Clark.
Read MoreThough Jagger Freeman didn’t shoot the gun that killed Detective Brian Simonsen, Queens prosecutors are pursuing a murder charge, which is allowed in New York State. His trial began Tuesday.
Read MoreQueens College and Farmingdale State College will host “Get Started in the Cannabis Industry” next month, a multi-day course that aims to teach participants how to open, manage or work in the marijuana business in New York.
Read MoreAs the state court system begins to formulate plans on a statewide restructuring, some of the people most essential to the daily operations are pushing back.
Councilmember Sandra Ung and Queens Legal Services are partnering to provide free legal assistance to Flushing residents beginning this week.
“There's no cure for nightmares – some days I just think I'm still in solitary and this is a dream I’m free.”
Read MoreWhether or not Queens’ new State Senate district stays as is, has its electoral lines altered or is eliminated altogether is up in the air.
Read MoreThe Q70 bus to LaGuardia Airport will temporarily be free to riders as the Port Authority continues its review of alternative public transit options to the airport.
Read MoreAttorneys representing indigent clients and children in Family Court, including a handful from Queens, rallied in Manhattan and Long Island Thursday to call for a pay raise after not seeing one in nearly two decades.
Read More“I got to go with my local, Long Island City – it’s called sLICe, it’s my local pizza joint there.”
Read MoreNew York’s highest court ordered the state to throw out its recently drawn congressional and State Senate district maps.
Read MoreA bill championed by criminal justice reformers that aims to erase the criminal records of a number of New Yorkers is beginning to make its way through the State Legislature.
Read MoreThe Flushing Queens Public Library Branch reopened Monday for the first time since the start of the pandemic.
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