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NEW YORK (AP) — Prosecutors want a judge to keep lawyers for Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman from using President Donald Trump’s negative comments about government cooperators to help defend the notorious Mexican drug lord. A recent filing by federal prosecutors ...

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Rochester Attorney Louis A. Ryen always enjoyed photography — mostly taking snapshots on family trips and special occasions — but he took it up a notch after a trip to Vail, Colo., in 1990. That’s when Ryen, senior counsel at ...

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump staunchly defended his embattled Supreme Court nominee against a new allegation of sexual misconduct Monday, calling the accusations against Judge Brett Kavanaugh “totally political.” The president spoke a day after a second allegation emerged against ...

WASHINGTON — Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein will stay in the job for now, but will meet with the president on Thursday, White House officials said Monday, after officials described a series of private discussions that pointed to his resignation ...

Five judicial candidates participated in a luncheon forum Thursday sponsored by the Greater Rochester Association for Women Attorneys and hosted by Nixon Peabody LLP. Participants included: Monroe County Court Judge Christopher Ciaccio Fatimat Reid Zuleika Z. Shepard Wheatland Town Justice ...

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 ...