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Oct 17, 2024 | 
gazette.com | Brad Brooks |Jonathan Allen
By Brad Brooks and Jonathan Allen(Reuters) -The top criminal appeals court in Texas on Thursday lifted an injunction delaying the execution of a man scheduled to become the first person executed in the United States for murder attributed to shaken baby syndrome, according to court documents.
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Sep 11, 2024 | 
gazette.com | Jonathan Allen
By Jonathan AllenNEW YORK (Reuters) -New York City Police Commissioner Edward Caban resigned on Thursday, a week after FBI agents seized his phone as part of multiple federal corruption investigations that have entangled senior city administration officials. Caban, appointed in July 2023, was the first Hispanic to hold the post in the history of the New York Police Department, the nation's largest police force.
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Jul 25, 2024 | 
ca.marketscreener.com | Jonathan Allen
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Two lawsuits accusing New York Governor Kathy Hochul of violating state law with her decision to halt the implementation of a congestion charge to drive into parts of Manhattan were filed on Thursday by commuter and environmental advocacy groups. Hochul, a Democrat who had previously advocated for the congestion charge, announced in June that she would "indefinitely pause" the charge, just weeks before it was due to come into effect.
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Jun 20, 2024 | 
yahoo.com | Jonathan Allen
Jonathan AllenJune 20, 2024 at 2:51 PM·2 min readBy Jonathan AllenNEW YORK (Reuters) - Dozens of pro-Palestinian student protesters arrested in April after occupying and barricading a building at Columbia University in New York City had all criminal charges against them dropped on Thursday, Manhattan prosecutors said at a court hearing.
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Jun 13, 2024 | 
yahoo.com | Jonathan Allen
Jonathan AllenJune 13, 2024 at 4:18 PM·2 min readBy Jonathan Allen(Reuters) - After a decades-long struggle, a Native American tribe won the right to resume its hunting traditions off Washington state's coast when federal regulators granted a waiver on Thursday allowing the Makah people to hunt up to 25 gray whales over a decade.
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Jun 7, 2024 | 
marketscreener.com | Jonathan Allen |Steve Gorman
NEW YORK (Reuters) - New York state lawmakers on Friday passed legislation to bar social media platforms from exposing "addictive" algorithmic content to users under age 18 without parental consent, becoming the latest of several states moving to limit online risks to children.
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Mar 28, 2024 | 
q106fm.com | Jonathan Allen
By Jonathan AllenNEW YORK (Reuters) – New York City will begin testing gun-detecting technology in a pilot program at several subway stations, Mayor Eric Adams said on Thursday. The announcement comes after several shootings on the subway system, one of the biggest and busiest in the world, including an argument on a train in March that ended with a man being shot in the head with his own gun.
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Feb 6, 2024 | 
marketscreener.com | Jonathan Allen
Damian Williams, the U.S. attorney in Manhattan, called it "the largest single-day bribery takedown" in the history of the U.S. Department of Justice. The current and former NYCHA employees, 66 of whom were arrested on Tuesday morning, according to Williams' office, are each charged with extortion as government workers, which carries a maximum sentence of 20 years in prison, and with soliciting and receiving bribes. Some of the accused also face additional conspiracy charges.
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Nov 2, 2023 | 
investing.com | Jonathan Allen
By Jonathan Allen (Reuters) - The Supreme Court of Alabama has authorized state officials to proceed with what would be the first execution of a prisoner in the U.S. using asphyxiation by nitrogen gas. In August, Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall, a Republican, asked the court to allow the state to proceed with gassing Kenneth Smith, who was convicted of murder in 1996, using a face mask connected to a cylinder of nitrogen intended to deprive him of oxygen.
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Nov 2, 2023 | 
investing.com | Jonathan Allen
© Reuters. New York City Mayor Eric Adams delivers a statement about the irregular migratory situation in the Darien Gap, during his visit to Colombia in Bogota, Colombia October 7, 2023. REUTERS/Luisa GonzalezBy Jonathan Allen NEW YORK (Reuters) - FBI agents searched the home of New York City Mayor Eric Adams' chief election campaign fundraiser, Brianna Suggs, on Thursday, and she was questioned by public corruption investigators, local media reported.
