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Los Angeles Opera ends its season with a lavish 'Aida' and Long Beach Opera begins its delayed season with deconstructed 'Giustino.'

Three members of the Exonerated Five, as they’re now called, along with the Innocence Project, are using social media to ask Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie (D-Bronx) and Senate Majority Leader Andrea Stewart-Cousins (D-Yonkers) to support the Challenging Wrongful Convictions Act.

[WATCH] Central Park Five's Raymond Santana Tells How He Spent $8M Settlement Central Park Five's Raymond Santana Tells How He Spent $8M

Ballet Virginia is performing "FIVE," based on the Central Park Five. Performances will be on Feb. 4 and 5 at Zeiders American Dream Theater in Virginia Beach.

Case against anti-fascists stemming from counterprotest of Jan. 9 'Patriot March' in Pacific Beach appears to be first alleging 'Antifa' conspiracy

NEW YORK (Legal Newsline) – Linda Fairstein, the longtime head of the Manhattan District Attorney’s Sex Crimes Unit who oversaw the prosecution of the “Central Park Five,” has plausibly alleged defamation by a critically acclaimed Netflix series.

In 1989, 15-year-old Yusef Salaam was one of five Black and Latino teenagers who were wrongly accused of assault and rape in the so-called Central Park

The depravity of the case stunned the city in a time when violent crime was rampant.

Central Park five prosecutor Linda Fairstein is intervening in criminal cases on behalf of her Marthas Vineyard friends and offering her former DA office colleagues positive press coverage, emails reveal Emails between the former head of the sex crimes unit of the Manhattan DAs office and her successor and good friend Martha Bashford were obtained They show Fairstein weighing in on cases involving New Yorks elite long after she left her position in 2002 One email from 2012 shows her telling Bas...

A coalition of children’s rights advocates in New York is pushing to get a state law passed that would mandate an attorney is consulted before law enforcement can interrogate any suspects under the age of 18. Proponents say the measure would add safeguards for juveniles, who are more susceptible than adults to coercive police tactics when detained for questioning. Stakeholders from more than 60 organizations have joined forces as part of a #Right2RemainSilent campaign aimed at helping advance...