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SEATTLE (AP) — A trial over whether the GEO Group must pay minimum wage — instead of $1 a day — to immigration detainees who perform tasks like cooking and cleaning at its for-profit detention center in Washington state has ...

In a split decision, a state appeals court has affirmed arson and murder convictions in an Onondaga County case. Shaun Bowen was convicted in December 2017 in Onondaga County Court of second-degree murder, first-degree arson and third-degree criminal mischief. In ...

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A former Rochester Housing Authority (RHA) official has pleaded guilty to federal fraud charges. Janis White, 60, pleaded guilty Wednesday before U.S. District Judge Elizabeth A. Wolford to conspiracy to commit wire fraud White is facing a potential maximum penalty of ...

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A Rochester woman was charged with second-degree murder for allegedly killing her 3-month-old baby girl.

The Supreme Court unanimously sided with a Catholic foster care agency that says its religious views prevent it from working with same-sex couples as foster parents.

The Supreme Court has dismissed a challenge to the Obama-era health care law, preserving insurance coverage for millions of Americans.

In a split decision, a state appeals court has granted a new trial in a drug case because a Black man was improperly excluded from the jury. The defendant, Michael M. Coleman, was convicted in Monroe County Court in October ...

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NEW YORK (AP) — The CEO and general counsel of Eastman Kodak must both testify under oath as part of an investigation from New York’s attorney general into possible insider trading, a judge ordered Tuesday. Attorney General Letitia James is ...

In the first public accounting of its kind in decades, an Associated Press investigation has found that at least 1,900 U.S. military firearms were lost or stolen during the 2010s, with some resurfacing in violent crimes. And that’s certainly an ...

NEW YORK — Jack B. Weinstein, a former federal judge who earned a reputation as a tireless legal maverick while overseeing a series of landmark class-action lawsuits and sensational mob cases in New York City like that of the “Mafia ...

TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — Acting as his own lawyer, a double-murder defendant opened his death penalty trial by shouting at jurors that he did not attack his girlfriend and disabled daughter. Now he’s cross-examined his son, forcing the 11-year-old to ...

Weapons charges have been dismissed against a man because of an illegal police search. Defendant Kenneth W. Scott was convicted in May 2018 of two counts of second-degree criminal possession of a weapon in state Supreme Court in Monroe County. ...

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