Queens District Attorney Melinda Katz, joined by the New York City Department of Investigation (DOI) Commissioner Jocelyn E. Strauber, announced today that Komal Singh, 52, has been charged with grand larceny and other crimes for allegedly taking thousands of dollars in kickbacks from employees working on a New York City […]
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Laws against gay sex were ruled unconstitutional long ago, but Kansas won’t drop its ban | KCUR 89.3
TOPEKA, Kansas — Intercourse between same-sex couples technically remains a crime in Kansas even though the provision in state statute was ruled unconstitutional 19 years ago. Since then, multiple attempts to remove the outdated language have failed. The latest legislation to change the law has languished in a Statehouse committee […]
NJ court ruling limits long prison sentences for youth crimes
In a momentous policy change this month, New Jersey quietly spread hope to inmates serving lengthy sentences for crimes they committed as juveniles that they could be released from prison sooner than expected. But unlike many of their peer states, New Jersey’s shift to reduce the amount of time juvenile offenders must stay behind bars […]
More than 50,000 acres of CT estuaries and Long Island Sound designated as ‘living laboratories’
Federal authorities formally designated more than 50,000 acres of eastern Long Island Sound as a National Estuarine Research Reserve, the first reserve of its kind to be established in the waters of Connecticut. The reserve, which stretches from the Lower Connecticut River Valley in Essex to the waters around Mason […]