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 ...
Read More »Feinman, first openly gay judge on New York high court, dies
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 ...
Read More »New trial ordered in robbery case
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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Read More »Judge admonished for Facebook post
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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Read More »Teen who shot Floyd video says he was ‘begging for his life’
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 ...
Read More »States struggle to get rent relief to tenants amid pandemic
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 ...
Read More »Biden announces diverse first slate of judicial nominees
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 ...
Read More »Should smartphone repair options be just like auto repair?
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 ...
Read More »Weapon conviction reversed
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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Read More »Former officer’s trial in George Floyd’s death gets underway
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 ...
Read More »New York lawmakers agree to legalize recreational marijuana
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 ...
Read More »NY social service agency sued for not allowing X gender mark
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 ...
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