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An upstate New York man could draw a stiff sentence for shooting a sheriff's deputy in the leg while high on alcohol and drugs. Scott Pescara was convicted last month of attempted aggravated assault on a police officer and related charges.

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The evidence against a former Rochester college student was overwhelming to the point that his inability to confront the witness he gravely injured would not have affected the outcome. The New York State Court of Appeals on Tuesday unanimously affirmed an Appellate Division decision ...

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NEW YORK — A former billionaire who was the primary target of what prosecutors called the biggest hedge fund insider trading case in U.S. history was sentenced Thursday to 11 years in prison. Galleon Group founder Raj Rajaratnam also was fined $10 million.

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HENRIETTA — A trial is set to begin for a teenager charged with stabbing his girlfriend inside a suburban Rochester supermarket. WHEC-TV reports that 18-year-old Kevin Minemier’s trial on attempted murder and assault charges is scheduled to begin Wednesday morning in a Rochester court.

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Lori J. Macakanja, 35, of Dunkirk, Chautauqua County, has pleaded guilty to mail fraud and theft of government money. Macakanja, in her capacity as a housing counselor employed by HomeFront Inc., inappropriately requested money from clients, telling them it would be used ...

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CANANDAIGUA — A 42-year-old man has been convicted of punching a 79-year-old man into a plate glass window after complaining about the older man's karaoke singing at a western New York bar. The Ontario County District Attorney's Office says a jury Thursday ...

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NEW YORK — A prosecutor asked a federal judge Tuesday to sentence a hedge fund founder convicted of insider trading charges based on illegal gains of more than $70 million. The prosecutor, Andrew Michaelson, urged U.S. District Judge Richard Holwell ...

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The difference between the state and federal governments’ definition of prostitution will allow an immigrant woman living in New York to remain in the U.S. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit has ruled the Board of Immigration Appeals in Buffalo ...

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Federal prosecutors say a former professional hockey player has pleaded guilty to smuggling large quantities of marijuana across the border from Canada for distribution in the United States. U.S. Attorney William Hochul says 29-year-old Sean McMorrow of Toronto ...

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MIAMI — A federal appeals court has thrown out the 17-year prison sentence imposed on convicted terrorism plotter Jose Padilla. A three-judge panel of the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Monday that the sentence imposed by ...

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The First U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has reversed U.S. District Court Judge Nancy Gertner’s decision to reduce by a factor of 10, on due process grounds, a jury award of damages in favor of record companies in a case against a college student who used file-sharing software to download ...

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George McCray, 67, of Niagara Falls, has pleaded guilty before U.S. District Court Judge Richard J. Arcara to theft of public money. The charge carries a maximum penalty of 10 years in prison and a fine of $250,000.

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