New York can for now continue to enforce a sweeping new law that bans guns from “sensitive places” such as schools, playgrounds and Times Square, the Supreme Court said Wednesday, allowing the law to be in force while a lawsuit ...
Read More »SUNY Brockport pulls grant for talk by man convicted in cop deaths
A state college withdrew funding Wednesday for an upcoming talk by Jalil Muntaqim, a former Black Panther who was imprisoned for nearly 50 years for killing two New York City police officers. But the State University of New York College ...
Read More »Navient settles predatory student loan claims for $1.85B
Navient, a large student loan servicer, has settled allegations of predatory lending practices for $1.85 billion, New York’s attorney general announced Thursday. The settlement includes $1.7 billion in debt cancellation and $95 million in restitution, New York Attorney General Letitia ...
Read More »Second Starbucks store near Buffalo votes to unionize
A second Starbucks store near Buffalo has voted to unionize, one of a growing number of the coffee chain’s stores seeking to organize workers. Workers at the store, in the suburb of Cheektowaga, voted 15-9 in favor of representation by ...
Read More »Videos show Rochester officers pepper-spraying 9-year-old
Police in Rochester released two body-camera videos Sunday of officers restraining a distraught 9-year-old girl who was handcuffed and sprayed with what police called a chemical “irritant.” “I am deeply troubled by the macing and handcuffing of a child who ...
Read More »Study finds small businesses strapped for cash
A recent report that most small businesses are pressed for cash comes as no surprise to Jan Pisanczyn, director of the SUNY Brockport Small Business Development Center. “Most small-business owners, like most of us, are not financial wizards so they ...
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Read More »Funding spree continues for Rochester airport
Rochester’s airport will get $40 million as the first winner of New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s upstate airport competition. The Greater Rochester International Airport plans to combine the money with $23 million in local funds to overhaul the terminal, construct ...
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Read More »Western NY man admits he conspired to traffic girl for sex
ROCHESTER — A western New York man is facing a sentence of up to life in prison after admitting he intended to traffic a girl for sex. Federal prosecutors announced Tuesday that Brandon McNeal pleaded guilty in federal court in ...
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Read More »Western NY activists: Immigration case before Supreme Court to affect thousands here
The Supreme Court’s decision to conduct an election-year review of President Barack Obama’s executive action to grant legal status to some immigrants living in the U.S. illegally ultimately will affect thousands of immigrant workers in western New York, activists said ...
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Read More »Janet DiFiore confirmed for Court of Appeals
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — The New York Senate has confirmed longtime Westchester County prosecutor Janet DiFiore as New York’s chief judge. The voice vote, with no opposition, followed an hour of praise for the 60-year-old district attorney by both Republicans ...
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Read More »NY revises rules for disciplining attorneys
New York’s judiciary has adopted new rules for investigating and disciplining attorneys for misconduct in an effort to apply uniform rules statewide. The rules adopted by all four of New York’s appellate divisions, effective July 1, followed proposals by a ...
Read More »Peradotto among 7 candidates on list for top court
The Hon. Erin M. Peradotto, an associate justice in the Appellate Division’s Fourth Department, is among seven candidates recommended by a state commission to fill the vacancy on the New York State Court of Appeals that followed Judge Susan P. ...
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