No indictment for NYPD officer involved in chokehold death
“I can’t breathe! I can’t breathe!” Eric Garner, a 43-year-old black man from Staten Island, screamed as New York Police Department officers caught and put him in a chokehold, slamming…
Category: New York & New Jersey
Covering the week’s most noteworthy news stories impacting the lives of the Filipino-American community in New York and New Jersey.
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NYC to spend $130M to overhaul treatment of mentally ill in prisons
New York City will invest $130 million to reform its criminal justice system by expanding access to public health services for mentally ill inmates. “For years, the criminal justice has…
Cuomo re-elected New York Governor
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo was re-elected for a second term Tuesday in the 2014 midterm election. Cuomo garnered 54 percent of the vote with 98 percent of precincts reporting…
World Trade Center reopens for business
THIRTEEN years after the 9/11 terrorist attack, the World Trade Center in New York City is once again open for business. On Monday, Nov. 3, the mass media publishing giant Condé…
New York doctor tests positive for Ebola
Nurses in Dallas free of virus THE war on Ebola continues with a new case, this time in New York City. Doctor Craig Spencer was working with the organization Doctors…
Fil-Am teen sentenced for Trade Center stunt
A FIL-AM teenager from New Jersey who managed to slip through the security of the World Trade Center in New York, was sentenced last September 3. Sixteen-year-old Justin Casquejo was…
The Philippine Elite Dancers of New York of New York Conqured the 2013 Multinational Cultural Festival
The top dancers of the Philippine Elite Dancers of New York represented the Philippines at the 2013 Multinational Cultural Festival. The festival was sponsored by the Asian-American Cultural Circle of…
Bayahnihan Dazzles Audiences in NY, DC
Despite Hurricane Sandy’s wrath, the shows went on. The Bayanihan, the national dance company of the Philippines, performed before sold-out audiences in New York and Washington, DC on the same…
Lorna Schofield, One of National Law Journal’s 50 Most Influential Minority Lawyers and Nominee for Federal District Court Judge, Southern District of NY
She’s been hailed as a Super Lawyer, referenced as one of the top trial attorneys in the nation, and the National Law Journal named her as one of the 50…
