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New York’s attorney general on Tuesday ordered the daily fantasy sports companies DraftKings and FanDuel to stop accepting bets in the state, saying their operations amount to illegal gambling. In a pair of letters sent to the companies, Attorney General ...

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WASHINGTON — The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday sided with a Texas state trooper who was sued after he fatally shot a man fleeing from officers during a 2010 high-speed chase outside Amarillo. The court ruled that Trooper Chadrin Mullenix ...

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WASHINGTON — In the last two months, two Minnesota men have admitted they plotted to travel to Syria to fight alongside the Islamic State, a New Jersey man pleaded guilty to helping his brother fly to the Middle East to ...

WASHINGTON — Long before the deaths of Trayvon Martin, Michael Brown and Freddie Gray, more than half of African-American millennials indicated they, or someone they knew, had been victimized by violence or harassment from law enforcement, a new report says. ...

BUFFALO — A 37-year-old man has been charged in what federal authorities say was the first of more than a dozen connected bank robberies in western New York. Federal prosecutors announced Tuesday that Casey Swain of Buffalo made his initial ...

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Last week, more than 130 police chiefs, sheriffs, prosecutors, and attorneys general from all 50 states called for reduced incarceration in the United States, while maintaining public safety. The group, which calls itself Law Enforcement Leaders to Reduce Crime and ...

WASHINGTON— A U.S. citizen who claims American officials falsely imprisoned and tortured him for several months in Africa can’t sue the FBI agents involved because the conduct took place overseas during a terrorism investigation, a federal appeals court ruled Friday. ...

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GENESEO — A former sheriff’s deputy in western New York accused of smuggling chewing tobacco into jail faces contraband, bribery and conspiracy charges. Ryan O’May worked in the corrections division of the Livingston County Jail, about 30 miles south of ...

ALBANY — New York’s top court ruled Thursday that a mentally ill patient who is sent involuntarily to a psychiatric hospital has a right to challenge detention once the court order for treatment expires. The Court of Appeals, split 5-1, ...

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The sex offender risk level of a Niagara Falls man will not be lowered because he felt he was unable to attend a hearing on the matter for fear of being beaten by corrections officers at the Attica Correctional Facility. ...

NEW HARTFORD — A woman charged with beating her teenage son to death inside a church felt helpless to stop an intervention that spiraled into violent punishment by others, her lawyer said Thursday. As the encounter turned violent, Deborah Leonard ...

Robert C. Cerrato, a Yonkers City Court judge in Westchester County, has resigned from office after being served with formal disciplinary charges, the New York State Commission on Judicial Conduct announced Wednesday. As stipulated, Judge Cerrato agreed not to seek ...