GroundUp

Homeless people tell their story in new Mike van Graan play

Three people tell their stories of living on the streets in Cape Town in a new play directed by award-winning playwright Mike ...

Kayla Alvarenga, of Bay Shore, sentenced to life in prison for ordering killing of man sleeping in his car outside her home

Kaya Alvarenga was found guilty of murder, kidnapping and robbery in the death of 29-year-old Linver Ortiz Ponce in a church ...
News 12 Long Island

Alleged gang leader gets life in prison for planned church parking lot murder

A 23-year-old alleged gang leader was sentenced Tuesday to life in prison without the possibility of parole, according to the Suffolk County District Attorney. Kayla Alvarenga was sentencing for ...

Man sentenced to 17 years in prison for woman’s Rancho Peñasquitos murder

Parrish Juan Chambers Jr. was convicted of second-degree murder for the 2022 killing of Nahal Connie Dadkhah, 45.

Judge sentences man in case of woman found dead morning after neighbors’ calls for help

Parrish Juan Chambers Jr., 47, was convicted of second-degree murder for the 2022 killing of Nahal Connie Dadkhah, 45.
Truthout

I Will Choose Death Over Treatment Unless New York Changes Its Parole Laws

In 2013, when I had been locked up in solitary confinement for 25 years, I wrote an essay entitled “A Sentence Worse Than ...

At end of second trial, man who murdered Rancho Peñasquitos woman learns his fate

In a case NBC 7 Investigates has been covering since the 2022 murder of Connie Dadkhah, the killer was sentenced to 17 years ...