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WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court on Wednesday seemed ready to give college athletes a win in a dispute with the NCAA over rules limiting their education-related compensation. With the March Madness basketball tournament in its final stages, the high ...

ALBANY (AP) — Paul Feinman, the first openly gay judge to serve on New York’s highest court, died recently after stepping down because of his health, state officials announced Wednesday. He was 61. No cause of death was given. He ...

A state appeals court has ordered a new trial in a robbery case because the judge failed to hold a suppression hearing before the start of the trial. Defendant Quran L. Coffie was convicted in September 2015 of first-degree robbery ...

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The New York State Commission on Judicial Conduct has recommended that determined that Gorham Town Justice John R. Peck, in Ontario County, should be admonished. The Commission found that Peck should be disciplined for publishing public Facebook posts in which ...

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MINNEAPOLIS — The teenager who shot the harrowing video of George Floyd under the knee of the Minneapolis police officer now charged in his death testified Tuesday that she began recording because “it wasn’t right, he was suffering, he was ...

Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced last July that New York would spend $100 million in federal coronavirus relief to help cash-strapped tenants pay months of back rent and avert evictions. By the end of October, the state had doled out only ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden on Tuesday unveiled his first slate of judicial nominees, a racially diverse and mostly female field that is a sharp departure from the largely white and male picks during Donald Trump’s administration. Biden’s group ...

Buy a new car today and years down the road you can drive it to your favorite independent mechanic to have brake repair or check engine light diagnostics performed. But buy a new smartphone and you have very few options ...

A state appeals court has reversed a weapon conviction because of insufficient evidence. Defendant Earnest Hawkins was convicted in Monroe County Court in September 2014 of two counts of second-degree criminal possession of a weapon and one count of first-degree ...

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MINNEAPOLIS — The former Minneapolis police officer charged with killing George Floyd  went on trial Monday, with prosecutors promptly showing the jury the video of Derek Chauvin pressing his knee on the Black man’s neck for several minutes as onlookers ...

ALBANY — New York is poised to join a growing number of states that have legalized marijuana after state lawmakers reached a deal to allow sales of the drug for recreational use. The agreement reached Saturday would expand the state’s ...

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — Nonbinary New Yorkers who currently must declare themselves as male or female to receive Medicaid, food stamps and other public assistance say in lawsuit filed Monday that the state is discriminating against them by failing to ...