ITHACA, N.Y. (AP) — Police say a former Cornell University student has been arrested after bomb-making materials and an AR-15 rifle were found in his apartment near the campus. The Post-Standard of Syracuse reports that 20-year-old Maximilien Reynolds was charged ...

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ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — Cornell University will receive $2.5 million in federal funds to support the development of new cybersecurity software. U.S. Sens. Charles Schumer and Kirsten Gillibrand announced the funding decision Friday. The two New York Democrats hailed the ...

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A former fraternity president at Cornell University who pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor sex offense was sentenced Tuesday to six years of probation. Wolfgang Ballinger was a 21-year-old junior last year when he was charged with first-degree attempted rape, first-degree ...

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ITHACA (AP) — An Ithaca College student fatally stabbed at Cornell University was attacked while trying to help a fellow student amid a series of fights after a weekend party, his sister said Monday. Anthony Nazaire, a 19-year-old sophomore from ...

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ITHACA — Police investigating a brawl on the campus of Cornell University that left an Ithaca College student dead and another Ithaca student injured are asking witnesses with cellphone video of the fight to come forward. The students were stabbed ...

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A former Cornell University graduate student convicted of murder for slitting his newly wedded wife’s throat will not get a new trial. The Appellate Division, Third Department, ruled Thursday that it was not wrong for a Tompkins County Court judge ...

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ITHACA (AP) — A federal judge said that Cornell University and the city of Ithaca can be sued for negligence in the death of a student from Florida who jumped to his death from a bridge over a gorge near ...

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Cornell University Law School is the only Upstate law school to move up in the Best Law School Rankings released Monday by U.S. News & World Report. The private school climbed one notch to the No. 13 spot, the same ...

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ITHACA — Hip hop pioneer DJ Afrika Bambaataa has been appointed to a three-year term as a visiting scholar at Cornell University. The appointment announced Tuesday was made by Cornell University Library’s Hip Hop Collection in conjunction with the Ivy ...

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Finding a job in this economy is hard enough for people without a criminal conviction, but for the hundreds of thousands of people released from federal and state prisons in the U.S. each year, it’s nearly impossible once personnel departments ...

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A federal judge has given the green light to a lawsuit seeking to hold the city of Ithaca and Cornell University liable for the death of a student who committed suicide by jumping from a local bridge. “[The] defendants’ duty ...

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In 2006, Cornell University launched what proved to be a popular doctorate program in law, psychology and human development. Now, applications for a new six-year degree program combining a doctorate in developmental psychology with a J.D. degree are being accepted ...

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