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A TV actor from Rego Park was sentenced to 25 years to life in prison on Friday after he was found guilty of murdering a man during a 2021 ambush in St. Albans.

Isaiah Stokes, 45, of 62nd Road, was convicted on March 7 of murder in the second degree and other related crimes for gunning down 37-year-old Tyrone Jones as he sat in a parked Jeep Cherokee waiting on a friend to arrive for lunch. The fatal shooting was in retaliation for an altercation between the two men at the victim’s birthday bash months earlier.

Mar. 21, 2025 By Paulina Albarracin

The Queens Distance Runners (QDR) hosted the For the Love of Queens 5K at Flushing-Meadows Corona Park on Saturday, Feb. 15, to champion immigrant communities in NYC.

March 21, 2025 By Bill Parry

A teenager is being held without bail after he was arraigned in Queens Supreme Court on Thursday in connection to a fatal stabbing of a youngster outside a Sunnyside McDonald’s last month.

Mar. 21, 2025 By emarshall

March 21, 2025 By Ethan Marshall

Mar. 21, 2025 By Shane O’Brien

NYC Health + Hospitals/Elmhurst has been named a Center for Excellence in Surgical Safety by a prestigious association representing more than 41,000 nurses across the US and abroad.

Mar. 21, 2025 By Athena Dawson

Mar. 21, 2025 By Colum Motherway

The New York State Senate has passed Senate Bill S.1194-A, a bill aimed at improving consumer protection and promoting transparency in utility pricing. 

Mar. 21, 2025 By Athena Dawson

As spring arrives, New York City residents are invited to take part in a seasonal tradition that supports urban greening and environmental awareness.

Mar. 21, 2025 By Dean Moses

A parolee who spent nearly two decades in prison for raping a young girl in Brooklyn was arrested in Queens Thursday on public lewdness and sex abuse charges.

Forbes Travel Guide named LaGuardia Airport as the nation’s best airport in October based on a survey of 5,000 hospitality and travel experts and the guide’s most well-traveled fliers.

On Tuesday, Port Authority executive director Rick Cotton accepted the Verified Air Travel Award in the recently completed Terminal C. The award is the latest in a long list of accolades given to LaGuardia throughout the course of the airport’s $8 billion transformation project that began in 2016.