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Hera McLeod pleaded with the family court judge to keep her 15-month-old son Prince away from her abusive ex-boyfriend. The mother, along with many other witnesses, told the court about the man’s fits of rage, the night he threatened to ...

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ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — New York’s governor signed a bill Monday that softens penalties for possessing small amounts of marijuana and allows for the expungement of some past offenses. The law changes an unlawful possession of marijuana statute into a ...

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WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump on Monday granted full pardons to five people and commuted the prison sentences of another two, bringing to 19 the total number of people to whom he has granted executive clemency since taking office. In ...

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A federal judge put on hold President Donald Trump’s request for an emergency order barring House Democrats from getting his New York state tax records and gave the parties 24 hours to defuse the situation. U.S. District Judge Carl Nichols ...

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WASHINGTON (AP) — House Judiciary Chairman Jerrold Nadler filed a petition in federal court Friday to obtain secret grand jury material underlying former special counsel Robert Mueller’s report, arguing the panel needs the information as it weighs whether to pursue ...

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Leslie Mayo’s ex-husband called in 2017, telling her he had bumped into an old friend from the ‘90s named Moe who wanted to hang out. The call was forgettable but for the fact that Mayo couldn’t recall the man. It ...

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Former state Supreme Court justice and statewide Republican leader Richard M. Rosenbaum died Sunday. He was 88. “Today we lost a giant and a great friend to so many,” Monroe County Executive Cheryl Dinolfo said in a news release. “A ...

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DRYDEN, Mich.  — The visiting priests arrived discreetly, day and night. Stripped of their collars and cassocks, they went unnoticed in this tiny Midwestern town as they were escorted into a dingy warehouse across from an elementary school playground. Neighbors ...

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The roughly 2,000 state and local governments suing the drug industry over the deadly opioid crisis have yet to see any verdicts or reach any big national settlements but are already tussling with each other over how to divide any ...

ALBANY (AP) — New York is extending the waiting period for certain gun purchases from three days to 30 days to give authorities more time to run background checks. The change signed into law Monday by Democratic Gov. Andrew Cuomo ...

The bad news: Nearly half of all Americans were affected by the 2017 Equifax data breach, in which hackers stole personal data for more than 147 million people: credit card numbers, Social Security numbers and other identifying information. The good ...

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In March, New York State Court of Claims judge Debra Martin served as an acting state Supreme Court justice, presiding over a civil trial where a Brighton family whose son, Jeffrey Bordeaux Jr., was killed in a fight at a ...