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Woman gets stopped for speeding. Cop shows mercy and gives her a ticket for a nonmoving violation. As police officer pulls away, however, woman gives him the finger – or, as a U.S. District Court puts it, “flips him the ...

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NEW YORK (AP) — Former New York Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver’s quest to avoid prison got a boost when a panel of appeals judges heard his appeal Wednesday, questioning whether his actions were crimes or politics as usual. The Democrat ...

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A pair of actresses, Lori Loughlin and Felicity Huffman, were the big names that immediately popped out of the arrests and indictments Tuesday in connection with a sprawling FBI investigation into college admissions fraud. However, a number of figures from ...

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WASHINGTON (AP) — Former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort was sentenced to a total of seven and a half years in prison on federal charges, then was hit almost immediately with fresh state charges in New York that could put ...

A federal lawsuit filed by a home health aide over unpaid overtime wages has been settled for $8,000. The settlement agreement between plaintiff Gina Kase and her former employer, Serenity Homecare Inc., and owner Norene Vorhis, was approved on Tuesday ...

Hunger Solutions New York has awarded a contract to LawNY to provide outreach assistance in Seneca, Wayne and Monroe counties to help increase enrollment in the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants and Children (WIC) in New York. LawNY’s ...

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WASHINGTON — Paul Manafort received a sentence totaling 7 ½ years in prison after being ordered by a federal judge in the District of Columbia to serve 43 months on top of the 47-month sentence the former Trump campaign chairman ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Languishing evidence in over 100,000 sexual assault cases around the country has been sent for DNA testing with money from a New York prosecutor and federal authorities, spurring over 1,000 arrests and hundreds of convictions in ...

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WASHINGTON – Former FBI lawyer Lisa Page defended herself and the bureau last year against accusations that anti-Trump bias affected federal investigations of the Trump campaign’s suspected Russia ties and Hillary Clinton’s emails, according to a transcript released Tuesday by ...

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Michael Avenatti and Stormy Daniels are parting ways. Daniels said in a tweet that she has retained Tulsa-based attorney Clark Brewster as her personal attorney and has asked him to review all legal matters involving her. “Upon completion of Mr. ...

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WASHINGTON – Once a globe-trotting political operative and campaign chairman for President Donald Trump, Paul Manafort returns to federal court Wednesday as a felon awaiting word on how much more prison time he could receive in the hard fall from ...

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A federal judge has overruled local officials and ordered a Chautauqua County town to approve an application to erect a wireless cell tower. Up State Tower Co. LLC, which builds telecommunications towers for Blue Wireless, filed an application in July ...