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WASHINGTON — When Clarence Thomas arrived at the Supreme Court in 1991 after a bruising confirmation hearing in which his former employee Anita Hill accused him of sexual harassment, fellow justice Byron White said something that stuck with him. “It ...

An Allegany County Court judge has dismissed a criminally negligent homicide charge filed after passenger in the defendant’s car died of a drug overdose. The case against defendant Robert J. Murray Jr. was dismissed in August after his attorney, Clair ...

PHILADELPHIA — Bill Cosby could be sent to prison next week for drugging and molesting a woman at his suburban Philadelphia home in 2004 in what became the first celebrity trial of the #MeToo era. Cosby is due in court ...

The Worker Justice Center of New York (WJCNY) has filed a federal complaint seeking class-action status for former employees of W.D. Henry & Sons Inc. in Erie County. The lawsuit claims the company violated federal H-2A regulations, the Agricultural Worker Protection Act, ...

Rochester developer Thomas Masaschi and his business partner have asked state Supreme Court Justice Deborah Chimes to delay until late October a foreclosure action on a financially troubled Buffalo apartment complex so alternative financing can be secured, enabling them to ...

WASHINGTON — Wrestling for advantage, Democratic and Republican senators argued Tuesday over who could, should or would testify at next Monday’s hearing with Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh and the woman who accuses him of a sexual assault when they ...

HOUSTON — The arrest of a Border Patrol supervisor on allegations that he killed four women calls new attention to the agency’s problems keeping rogue officers off its force as it faces intense pressure to hire thousands more agents. Juan ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Ex-New York Assembly speaker Sheldon Silver must report to prison as scheduled next month after a judge Monday denied bail pending the appeal of his corruption conviction and seven-year prison term. U.S. District Judge Valerie E. ...

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There may be no better place than Family Court to get a crash course in what ails society. All the social ills that plaque modern America — the latest drug trends, the debilitating effect of poverty, the results of untreated ...

WASHINGTON — Brett Kavanaugh and the woman accusing him of a decades-old sexual assault both indicated Monday they would be willing to testify to a Senate panel as the confirmation of President Donald Trump’s Supreme Court nominee shifted from seemingly ...

Three witnesses who testified Thursday before a panel studying ways to improve legal services for indigent parents in Family Court described an overloaded, underfunded system stacked against parents struggling to keep custody of their children. Kate Woods, deputy director of ...

A Brooklyn photographer and videographer has filed a federal copyright infringement lawsuit against the company that operates WHAM-TV. The plaintiff, Dominique Hessert, is described in the four-page complaint as “a professional photographer and video journalist in the business of licensing ...