A decision on whether a one-time candidate for New York governor who publicly insulted former President Barack Obama should remain on a school board is expected in several weeks. Layers wrapped up a five-day hearing in Albany on Wednesday. State ...

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Carl Paladino, who once ran for New York governor and publicly insulted former President Barack Obama, has taken the stand at a hearing to determine whether he should remain on a school board. Carl Paladino is fighting an attempt by ...

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A one-time candidate for governor of New York who publicly insulted former President Barack Obama and his wife may be booted off the Buffalo School Board. A hearing is scheduled to begin Thursday in Albany over whether wealthy developer Carl ...

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ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — New York’s education commissioner has scheduled a hearing to decide whether one-time candidate for governor Carl Paladino should be removed from the Buffalo school board. The June 22 hearing in Albany will focus on a complaint ...

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Carl Paladino, the wealthy Buffalo businessman who co-chaired Donald Trump’s campaign in New York, says there are no lingering problems with the president-elect’s transition team over his widely condemned comments insulting President Barack Obama and his wife. Paladino refuted reports ...

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A former Donald Trump campaign official who wrote that he wanted to see Barack Obama dead of mad cow disease and Michelle Obama living with a gorilla in Africa now says those comments weren’t meant for publication but were nevertheless ...

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ALBANY — Firebrand Republican Carl Paladino is back in New York politics and vows to undercut the Republican Party if it doesn’t move to the right against Democratic Gov. Andrew Cuomo. “New York state is looking for real leadership,” Paladino ...

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BUFFALO — A New York City man has received a sentence of home confinement for phoning in a bomb threat to the Buffalo campaign headquarters of former gubernatorial candidate Carl Paladino.

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Miles J. Fisher, 63, of New York City, was arraigned Thursday in U.S. district court on a two-count federal indictment charging him with making a threat and conveying false information in connection with a bomb hoax.

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A top aide says Erie County Republican Carl Paladino had a narrow but clear path to victory over Democrat Andrew Cuomo in the New York governor’s race but a series of self-inflicted wounds drove his tea-party fueled quest off the rails.

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ALBANY — State records show Gov.-elect Andrew Cuomo outspent millionaire Republican Carl Paladino by nearly 3-to-1 in the race for governor in New York. Cuomo spent more than $8 million in the last two weeks of the campaign alone.

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NEW YORK CITY — The long, often nasty campaign to pick New York's next governor in a time of fiscal and ethical crises ends Tuesday as Democrat Andrew Cuomo seeks the office his father once held and tea party Republican Carl Paladino hopes to pull off one more upset.

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