ALBANY — More than 100 protesters chanting opposition to Gov. Andrew Cuomo's plan to cut program funding for the poor coupled with tax breaks for the rich have vowed to return to Albany after their demonstration blocked central stairs and hallways in the Capitol for an hour.

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ALBANY — The public is getting a rare opportunity to see some of New York state's most significant artifacts, including the documents that first exposed Benedict Arnold as a traitor and an original handwritten draft of George Washington's Farewell Address.

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ALBANY — For most of the past five decades, individual members of New York's state Legislature, although reviled as a group, could relax and count on the perks and power of office to continue their better than 90-percent return rate. Those days may be gone.

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BUFFALO — Ken Streebel is not happy with the direction New York is headed. "No way," said the 61-year-old maintenance mechanic from suburban Hamburg. "Taxes are too expensive, my wife's been out of work for 2 1/2 years: one, because there's no jobs but two, because we're in our 60s, she can't get a job."

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NEW YORK CITY (AP) — New York's attorney general says there is no deal yet to resolve possible criminal charges in a pay-to-play scandal involving the state's former comptroller.

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ALBANY — New polls show a tight race between two still little-known candidates for attorney general in New York. The Quinnipiac University survey of 751 likely voters shows Democratic state Sen. Eric Schneiderman of Manhattan with 37 percent support ...

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New York State Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli announced Thursday that he is lowering the anticipated rate of return on investments in New York State’s pension fund and, in turn, raising the contributions local municipalities must make to it to ensure that it is fully funded.

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ALBANY — New York’s first all-girls charter high school opened Monday in Albany with two full grades. The $10 million Albany Leadership Charter High School for Girls has 150 students in ninth and 10th grades and 83 students on a waiting list.

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BUFFALO — Racy and racist e-mails forwarded by Republican gubernatorial candidate Carl Paladino have cost him an appearance at a political forum being hosted by Albany-area GOP leaders.

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The New York State Court of Appeals will hear arguments in Syracuse on Thursday in several cases that originated in the Fourth Department. Perhaps the week’s more widely anticipated argument ...

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