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NEW YORK CITY — A federal appeals court says a former traffic court judge must lose his law license for going on a date with a defendant and then ruling in her favor. Michael Dorsky worked for the Department of Motor Vehicles in Garden City, Long Island.

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WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Democratic-controlled Congress on Thursday sent President Barack Obama a long-delayed bill to help struggling small businesses with easier credit and other incentives to expand and hire new workers.

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ALBANY — New York Gov. David Paterson on Thursday ordered that 2,000 state jobs be cut through layoffs and attrition by Dec. 31, according to a memo to agency commissioners.

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ALBANY — A new poll of registered voters in New York shows Democratic candidate for governor Andrew Cuomo with a 2-to-1 lead over Republican Carl Paladino. The results released Thursday come one day after a poll of likely voters ...

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ALBANY — New polls show a tight race between two still little-known candidates for attorney general in New York. The Quinnipiac University survey of 751 likely voters shows Democratic state Sen. Eric Schneiderman of Manhattan with 37 percent support ...

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ALBANY — Front-running Democrat Andrew Cuomo got a potential boost Wednesday in the New York governor’s race with an endorsement from New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, while a new poll showed tea party Republican Carl Paladino closing in on him.

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BUFFALO — Authorities say a personal-injury lawyer has admitted to bilking more than $2.5 million from his clients to pay for construction of his suburban Buffalo home. The Buffalo News reports that Erie County prosecutors ...

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WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Obama administration is promising to move quickly to simplify the paperwork consumers receive when taking out a home mortgage. Obama adviser Elizabeth Warren and Treasury Secretary ...

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NEW YORK CITY — Investors held back from making big moves in the stock market Tuesday as they waited to see if the Federal Reserve might take new actions to stimulate the economy.

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NEW YORK CITY — Stocks extended their September rally into a fourth week Monday as investors hoped for more moves by the Federal Reserve to prop up the economy.

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NEW YORK CITY — A New York lawyer denies that he impersonated a Judaic studies professor and calls the allegation payback in a scholarly dispute over the Dead Sea Scrolls.

ALBANY — A report says Republican candidate for governor Carl Paladino received a $1.4 million tax break as the developer of Buffalo real estate, but failed to deliver on promised investments and jobs.

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