Mayor Lovely Warren wants the city of Rochester to have the power to fire police officers for cause, believes the police hiring process must be overhauled and seeks to redirect funding from law enforcement staffing to other community engagement programs ...
Read More »Janet Reno, former US attorney general, has died
MIAMI — Shy and admittedly awkward, Janet Reno became a blunt spoken prosecutor and the first woman to serve as U.S. attorney general, yet she also was the epicenter of a relentless series of political storms, from the deadly raid ...
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Read More »Police: Ex-boyfriend killed NY students before suicide
GENESEO — A 24-year-old man distraught over a recent breakup stabbed to death his ex-girlfriend and a fellow college athlete she was with in her off-campus bedroom before apparently killing himself with the same knife, police said Monday. Colin Kingston, ...
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Read More »LA Fitness, other clubs settle with AG
ALBANY — Greece-based health club giant LA Fitness has been penalized $6,750 as part of a sweeping settlement with 96 operators announced Thursday by New York’s attorney general. The operators have agreed to modify their contracts and pay penalties and ...
Read More »Treasury to track some real estate deals in NY, Miami
WASHINGTON — The Treasury Department will begin tracking sales of high-end real estate in two of the country’s most expensive markets — Miami and Manhattan — to try to crack down on money laundering. The department’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network ...
Read More »Police: Canadians arrested in grandparent scam
ALBANY — Authorities say they’ve charged four Canadian women in New York with trying to scam money from older people by claiming the victims’ grandchildren were in legal trouble. State police say their investigators, local police and federal agents made ...
Read More »NYC mayor to unveil ‘gun court’
NEW YORK — New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio is set to lay out a new system Tuesday to tackle gun-related violence. Those charged with firearm possession will be sent to one of two dedicated gun courtrooms in state ...
Read More »County police chiefs want thousands more ‘parole officers’
The Monroe County Association of Chiefs of Police has joined its counterparts in Western New York and at the state level to call the use of more than 60,000 sworn police officers to help monitor parolees. The proposal and other ...
Read More »Man accused of plotting terror attack appears in court
The 25-year-old Rochester man accused of plotting to carry out a terrorist attack at a Rochester bar and restaurant on New Year’s Eve made an appearance in federal court Friday morning Federal authorities announced on the morning of Dec. 31 ...
Read More »AG: Uber agrees to enhance user privacy
NEW YORK (AP) — The state’s attorney general has announced a settlement with Uber requiring the car service app to protect riders’ personal information. The agreement follows an investigation by the AG’s office amid reports that Uber executives had access ...
Read More »NY sues to get DraftKings, FanDuel to return money
NEW YORK — New York’s attorney general has filed a lawsuit asking FanDuel and DraftKings to give back all the money they made in the state, the latest salvo in an ongoing clash with a pair of increasingly popular daily ...
Read More »Q&A: How federal law regards hate speech
WASHINGTON — Incendiary rhetoric has seeped into 2016 presidential politics, surfaced in the public debate over accepting Syrian refugees into the U.S. and popped up repeatedly following terror attacks in Paris and San Bernardino. Attorney General Loretta Lynch has expressed ...
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