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BOSTON — Yahoo remains active. CBS has quietly withdrawn. And lesser known daily fantasy sports companies are scaling back. As industry leaders FanDuel and DraftKings fight to protect their lucrative enterprises, other companies offering daily fantasy sports are taking ...
Read More »State police to advise Planned Parenthood
New York state troopers are advising Planned Parenthood clinics statewide on security and emergency planning in the wake of Friday’s deadly attack at a clinic in Colorado. Gov. Andrew Cuomo said state police were to begin visits and discussions Monday ...
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Read More »No. 2 job at State Police goes to a woman
ALBANY — A woman will hold the No. 2 job at the New York State Police for the first time. Gov. Andrew Cuomo says Monday that Patricia Groeber has been appointed first deputy superintendent at the State Police, making her ...
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Read More »NY declares victory in Alzheimer’s drug antitrust lawsuit
ALBANY — New York’s attorney general is dropping a lawsuit against a drug manufacturer after blocking what he said was an attempt to switch Alzheimer’s patients to a newer patented drug. Attorney General Eric Schneiderman had sued Allergan PLC to ...
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Read More »NY A.G. names 2 chief deputies
ALBANY — New York’s attorney general has appointed two longtime lawyers as chief deputies responsible for criminal prosecutions and civil litigation. Attorney General Eric Schneiderman says Jason Brown previously headed the Criminal Division of the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Brooklyn. ...
Read More »AG Lynch: ‘Robust’ US screening for Syrian refugees
WASHINGTON — House Republicans pressed Attorney General Loretta Lynch on Tuesday over the Obama administration’s plan to allow thousands more Syrian war refugees into the country following last week’s attacks in Paris. Lynch told the House Judiciary Committee that protecting ...
Read More »Daily fantasy sports showdown spotlights AG
He’s the player daily fantasy sports fans across the country are suddenly watching: New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman, who ordered industry giants DraftKings and FanDuel this past week to stop accepting play from New Yorkers, saying their business amounts ...
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Read More »Ordered to stop, fantasy sports companies turn to court
NEW YORK — The country’s two biggest daily fantasy sports companies filed court papers on Friday in New York, asking a judge to stop the state attorney general’s efforts to shut down their operations and rule on the legality of ...
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Read More »Rochester firm supplies PD’s SWAT team
Rochester’s Allstar Tactical LLC announced that it has been chosen to update the rifles used by the city police department’s SWAT team. The company said several officers from the SWAT team worked with it to determine the exact requirements and ...
Read More »DA finds shootings of escapees justified
ALBANY — A prosecutor has concluded the shootings of two escaped killers in northern New York by their pursuers were justified. Franklin County Acting District Attorney Glenn MacNeill says there was “a very real concern” in the 1,000-personnel three-week manhunt ...
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Read More »Feds: TX businessman bilked $970K from local financing firm
Federal authorities say a 43-year-old Texas businessman has been charged with bilking a Rochester-area financing company out of nearly $1 million. The U.S. Attorney’s Office announced Tuesday that Bradley Boyd of Rhome, Texas was charged with wire fraud and money ...
Read More »Topics for body camera meetings released
Mayor Lovely A. Warren, City Council President Loretta C. Scott and Police Chief Michael Ciminelli on Tuesday announced the discussion topics and format for the upcoming public meetings on the Rochester Police Department’s Body Worn Camera Program. “I am looking ...
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