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BUFFALO — Buffalo Sabres forward Evander Kane said Monday he has done nothing wrong and is looking forward to clearing his name amid a sex offense investigation. Kane spoke for about 30 seconds in the Sabres locker room on Monday ...

ALBANY — Gov. Andrew Cuomo has signed a new law expanding the prohibition on shackling pregnant inmates at prisons and county jails except in extraordinary circumstances and only with the written approval of a county sheriff or prison superintendent. The ...

NEW YORK — He’s the enfant terrible of pharmaceuticals, a 32-year-old CEO who unapologetically raised the price of the only approved drug for a rare disease from $13.50 to $750 per pill. He’s a millionaire music aficionado who riled rap ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Daily fantasy sports giants DraftKings and FanDuel can’t do business in New York for now, a judge said Friday, cutting off one of their biggest customer bases at least temporarily as the state attorney general and ...

A 31-year-old Rochester man whose pants fell down to reveal a stash of banknotes has pleaded guilty to robbing the Chase Bank on Dewey Avenue in May, the U.S. Attorney’s Office announced Wednesday. Prosecutors said the defendant, Maximilion Broadnax, drafted ...

WASHINGTON — Responding to the San Bernadino shootings, lawmakers introduced legislation this week to require social media companies to report any online terrorist activity they become aware of to law enforcement. The bill by Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., and Sen. ...

NEW YORK — The state attorney general is looking into whether “speculative” ticket listings for Bruce Springsteen’s 2016 tour on ticket resale sites constitute deceptive advertising. Attorney General Eric Schneiderman sent letters this week to StubHub, TicketNetwork and Vivid Seats ...

Post-Thanksgiving sales in online shopping continue to climb. This most recent Black Friday set a record for one-day online sales at $2.74 billion, and early reports indicated online sales for Cyber Monday came in at $2.98 billion, after reaching a ...

Project Exile announced its newest initiative, Toys for Guns, on Wednesday, aimed at making the Rochester community a safer place to work, live and raise a family. Toys for Guns, a collaborative effort between the entities of Project Exile and ...

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ALBANY — An upstate New York sheriff is urging residents of his county who are licensed gun owners to arm themselves when they leave home, citing recent mass shootings in the United States and Paris. Ulster County Sheriff Paul Van ...

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WASHINGTON — Investigators would need a search warrant to get people’s old emails under a bill considered Tuesday by a House panel looking to update a nearly 30-year-old federal law to reflect today’s communications. The Email Privacy Act, co-authored by ...

ALBANY — The conviction of former Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver has shaken New York politics down to the granite foundations of the state Capitol, provoking fresh calls to overhaul a system that has stubbornly clung to its long history of ...