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A Rochester man has been sentenced to four years and nine months for bank robbery. Donald L. White, 24, also was ordered to pay restitution of $3,231 to Chase Bank by Chief U.S. District Court Judge Frank P. Geraci Jr., ...

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Prosecutors have dropped an indecent assault and battery case against Kevin Spacey, according to a document filed Wednesday with the Nantucket District Court. The Oscar-winning actor, 59, was accused last year of groping a man at a Massachusetts restaurant and ...

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Connecticut, New Jersey and New York sued the Trump administration Wednesday over an IRS rule that weakens the states’ attempts to work around a cap on state and local tax deductions. Attorneys general for the three states filed the lawsuit ...

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ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — New York farm workers have the right to unionize, get overtime pay and take at least one day off per week under a labor law signed Wednesday by Gov. Andrew Cuomo. The Farm Laborers Fair Labor ...

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For two decades, as 200,000 opioid overdose deaths piled up across America, there was always someone else to blame. Families blamed drug companies. Drug companies blamed doctors. Everyone blamed the government. More than half the public continues to see drug ...

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A federal judge in New York will decide Thursday whether multimillionaire and registered sex offender Jeffrey Epstein should be released on bail while he awaits trial on new allegations that he sexually abused children. U.S. District Judge Richard Berman has ...

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A Webster town justice has dismissed several charges, including driving while intoxicated, because the prosecutor failed to provide the defense with required documents within the required timeframe. The defendant, Brady P. Woods, was charged in November 2018 with DWI, leaving ...

Robert Morgan has finalized a joint venture with Pennsylvania-based management firm that will result in repayment of several existing mortgages through the refinancing of $627 million of debt on 53 properties, according to a court filing by his attorney. The ...

NEW YORK — The Mexican drug kingpin Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman was sentenced to life behind bars in a U.S. prison, a humbling end for a drug lord notorious for his ability to kill, bribe or tunnel his way out ...

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — New York will raise its smoking age from 18 to 21 under legislation signed into law Tuesday by the state’s governor. The change, which takes effect in 120 days, will apply to the sales of traditional ...

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John Paul Stevens, a moderate Midwestern Republican and former antitrust lawyer from Chicago who evolved into a savvy and sometimes passionate leader of the Supreme Court’s liberal wing and became the third-longest-serving justice on the high court before he retired ...

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VERNON, N.Y. (AP) — An upstate New York town has rejected the appeal of its denial of a permit to hold the Woodstock 50 music festival. The Town of Vernon’s planning board made its unanimous decision Tuesday night, exactly a ...

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