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Yonkers activist Hector Santiago was cleared in court on the only remaining charge from his police run-in during a rowdy City Council meeting.

Joseph Santoro upended the Josette Wright case in 2011 when he detailed a prison conversation in which Howard Gombert admitted raping the girl.

Virgilio Cruz of Yonkers was sentenced to prison after being convicted of sexually assaulting and raping a child starting when the child was 11.

Soto faces at least five years and up to 25 years in prison after the jury rejected his claim of mistaken identity.

View Comments When Savian Kirton’s girlfriend returned to her Mount Vernon apartment and told him a man had just made sexual advances at her at the corner grocery store, it didnt  take long for Kirton to react. Within three minutes he was outside the store, stabbing Jermial Rose so forcefully in the neck that he killed him almost instantly. Later that night, he was heard on police-car video mumbling that he was going to get 10 years. For that split-second rage two years ago Kirton got much...