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City Councilman John Liu (D-Flushing) has accused the mayor and school officials of failing to crack down on ethnic abuse, such as a recent incident at Newtown High School where a fellow student was accused of forcibly shoring the hair of a Sikh teen. More...

A Newtown High School student was charged with a hate crime after he and another teenager allegedly cut the hair of a Sikh student at the Elmhurst school, Queens District Attorney Richard Brown said Friday. More...