ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — Former Boy Scouts who say they were molested as children by adult scout leaders filed nine lawsuits Tuesday in New York accusing the organization of failing to protect them. The cases, filed Tuesday in New York ...
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A Steuben County Court judge has overturned a lower court ruling that required a defendant to be present in court for a trial on a speeding ticket. It was the second time the lower court was overturned on the issue ...
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ANNAPOLIS, Md. — Nearly three dozen wrongly convicted felons have been exonerated over the past 30 years in Maryland, which — like most other states — allows individuals to be compensated for years spent behind bars. But only nine exonerees ...
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The supply of homes on the market in July dropped 3.4 percent nationally in a year-over-year comparison, and the Rochester market saw the second-largest decline in the country. There were 1,841 homes for sale in the Rochester metro area in ...
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Attorney General William Barr announced Monday that he is replacing the head of the Bureau of Prisons, marking the latest fallout from the death in federal custody of multimillionaire sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. Hugh Hurwitz, the agency’s acting head, will ...
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NEW YORK (AP) — Jeffrey Epstein signed a will just two days before he killed himself in jail, new court records show, opening a new legal front in what could be a long battle over the financier’s fortune. Court papers ...
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Rep. Ben Ray Luján on Monday became the highest-ranking Democrat in the House to call for an impeachment inquiry against President Donald Trump, saying it’s time to hold him accountable. The New Mexico congressman, third in line ...
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A federal judge has reserved judgment on whether five people can testify for the prosecution that surveillance photos show the man accused of a fatal Xerox credit union robbery in 2003. The decision was released Friday by U.S. District Court ...
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NEW YORK — After five years of investigations and protests, New York City’s police commissioner on Monday fired an officer involved in the 2014 chokehold death of an unarmed black man whose dying cries of “I can’t breathe” fueled a ...
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WASHINGTON – It is rare that an amicus brief filed in a Supreme Court case is characterized as both a brassy reality check and unprecedented political bullying. But such is the controversy that Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, D-R.I., and four other ...
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The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals allowed the Trump administration’s latest asylum restrictions to take effect Friday in the border states of Texas and New Mexico – but not in California and Arizona – in a ruling that centered on ...
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ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — In New York government news, Gov. Andrew Cuomo wants to create a new crime of domestic terrorism for mass shootings or other large-scale violent acts motivated by bias. The Democrat says his proposal to lawmakers would ...
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