After Years Locked Up For Stealing Cold Medicine, Reginald Randolph is Released
But if he loses his appeal and Gov. Kathy Hochul declines to grant him clemency, he will likely be sent back to prison.
Stark disparities in access to life-saving medication for opioid addiction persist between facilities — and racial groups.
Referencing a New York Focus story, Assemblymember Jessica González-Rojas introduced legislation to prevent public agencies from naming the medically discredited condition in their reports.
New York Focus has published thousands of pages of county jail oversight records. Browse them in our database.
Backing primary opponents to progressive Democrats, the new Solidarity PAC resembles a state-level analog to the American Israel Public Affairs Committee.
As the relationship was coming to light, Heastie returned $5,000 in campaign cash to a labor group from which he’d recused himself.
We read the governor’s, Senate’s, and Assembly’s budget proposals — so you don’t have to.
In the New York City teachers union, anger over a plan to privatize retiree health care could send a longshot campaign over the edge.
Migrants from Mauritania and Senegal were the most likely to receive eviction notices, but not the most populous groups in shelters, a New York Focus analysis found.
Long-term subs stay with the same classes and can serve like full-time teachers. New York City schools misclassify them — so their pay doesn’t reflect that.