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NEW YORK (AP) — New York’s health commissioner is urging people to stop vaping, echoing recent warnings about the habit from the federal government. Dr. Howard Zucker said in a statement Saturday that people should abstain from vaping while “the ...

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An appellate court has reversed money damages awarded by a New York State Court of Claims judge to a prison inmate who had to wait 17 days for an X-ray for an ankle injury. After a trial in April 2018, ...

A state appeals court has reversed a state Supreme Court decision that denied fees to the Catholic Family Center, which served as a guardian for an incapacitated person. The Catholic Family Center was appointed as guardian of Ralph C., a ...

New York is leading a multistate investigation of Facebook for possible antitrust violations, Attorney General Letitia James announced Friday, kicking off a bipartisan wave of independent state inquiries targeting the social media giant as well as Google’s parent company, Alphabet. ...

On the stand for his capital murder trial, Randy Halprin stressed that while he did carry a gun with him after escaping a Texas prison with six others, he did not kill a police officer during a robbery that would ...

A Monroe County Court jury on Thursday convicted Joseph Boykins Sr., 51, of second-degree murder, for the death of Michael Earlsey and the attempted murder of his ex-girlfriend. Boykins was convicted of attempted second-degree murder, second-degree assault, first-degree criminal use ...

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ANNAPOLIS, Md. – An Anne Arundel County Circuit Court judge will decide next month whether prosecutors handling the case against alleged Capital Gazette shooter Jarrod Ramos should be sanctioned for allegedly failing to disclose possible evidence. Defense attorneys for Ramos ...

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WASHINGTON – A federal judge resentenced three former Blackwater Worldwide security guards Thursday, cutting by about half the prison terms imposed for the shootings of unarmed Iraqi civilians in a Baghdad traffic circle in 2007, after an appeals court found ...

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NEW YORK (AP) — New York City is suing T-Mobile for what it calls “abusive sales tactics” at Metro by T-Mobile stores, the wireless carrier’s prepaid phone brand. The city’s lawsuit says dozens of stores sold used phones to customers ...

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A staffer on Donald Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign is dropping a lawsuit that accused him of kissing her without her consent at a small gathering of supporters before a Florida rally. A federal judge dismissed Alva Johnson’s lawsuit in June, ...

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An appellate court has granted a hearing to evaluate claims of ineffective assistance of counsel for a defendant convicted of second-degree murder. Defendant Earl Howard, 28, was convicted in January 2011 in a non-jury trial of second-degree murder and second-degree ...

NEW YORK — Arrests totals in New York City have plunged in the two weeks since the police department fired an officer for the 2014 chokehold death of Eric Garner, pointing to a possible slowdown amid a heated response to ...