The settlement gives back pay to taxi and for-hire vehicle drivers who lost their licenses to work after they were arrested.

Ben Javanfar has been out of work for the past month. A yellow cab driver in the city for three decades, the 60-year-old was beaten on the job over a $14.35 cab fare.

Police shot a maniac after he lunged at them with a box cutter in Brooklyn Wednesday, leaving him clinging to life, sources ...