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 Queens judge said the charges didn’t stand up to legal muster.
Read MoreThe 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 prison for a double murder he says he didn’t commit.
Read MoreAs budget negotiations heat up in Albany, a group of legal aid advocates are making a push for legislation that would expand attorney student loan forgiveness.
Read MoreQueens’ only two Republican elected officials are ditching the conservative-leaning Common Sense Caucus in the City Council after having a falling out with their fellow members.
Read MoreA group of Republicans in Albany this week filed a formal ethics complaint against New York’s top judge, claiming he went too far in advocating for the passage of a sentencing reform bill during a symposium in Queens last month.
Read MoreCatherine Nolan, who represented Queens in the State Assembly for nearly four decades, passed away on Wednesday, one day before what would have been her 68th birthday.
Read MoreThe courtroom was packed on Tuesday for the start of the trial of Guy Rivera, who is accused of shooting and killing a police officer in Queens in 2024.
Read MoreThe 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.
Read MoreFor the second year in a row, Queens high school students competed in a civic essay competition, this time with the chance to defend their argument for a new constitutional amendment in front of the borough’s judges.
Read MoreQueens would receive less money per person than any other borough under the mayor’s proposed budget, Queens Borough President Donovan Richards said this week.
Read MoreQueens City Councilmember Vickie Paladino is suing her colleagues after the legislature’s ethics committee charged her with violating the Council’s anti-discrimination and harassment rules for a series of Islamophobic remarks she posted to social media.
Read MoreQueens residents told the city how they feel about their landlords at the Mamdani’s first “rental ripoff” hearing in the World’s Borough.
Read MoreA decomposing head was found in the Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge late Thursday night, prompting a major law enforcement response on Friday, law enforcement sources told the Eagle.
Read MoreQueens Republican Councilmember Vickie Paladino shot back after she was charged by the Council’s ethics committee over a slew of Islamophobic remarks she made on social media in recent months.
Read MoreThe number of times Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents asked the Department of Correction to give them a heads up before a detainee’s release so that they could make an arrest more than doubled during the first year of President Donald Trump’s second term, compared to the year prior.
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