The New York State Assembly on Monday passed legislation that would create a civil penalty for the biased misuse of emergency services, such as 911. The legislation is a response to instances of white people calling police on people of ...

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NEW YORK (AP) — An aide and one-time chief of staff to New York State Assembly Assistant Speaker Felix Ortiz was arrested Thursday on a wire fraud charge, accused of diverting $80,000 from campaign contributions for his personal use. Maruf ...

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ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — The New York state Assembly has voted to eliminate the requirement for cash bail in most criminal cases. The Democrat-controlled chamber endorsed the measure Tuesday. It now moves to the Senate, where it’s expected to face ...

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ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — Sorry teens of New York, but there’s legislation pending in the state Legislature that would keep anyone under the age of 18 out of indoor tanning booths. The measure passed the state Assembly earlier this week ...

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ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — State lawmakers in New York are examining a legislative proposal to give terminally ill people the right to seek life-ending medication from their physician. The Assembly’s Health Committee is scheduled to hold a public hearing on ...

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ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — Lawmakers in the New York state Assembly have again passed bills intended to make it easier for voters to participate in elections. The Democratic-led chamber on Tuesday endorsed a package of legislation including measures to authorize ...

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ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — The Democrat-controlled state Assembly on Tuesday passed legislation aimed at reducing gun violence in the state, a day after Republicans who control New York’s Senate approved bills that focus on school safety but don’t address the ...

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Republicans in New York’s state Assembly say they are concerned about the state’s tax burden. Assembly Minority Leader Brian M. Kolb released a statement Friday calling on the lawmakers to pass legislation easing taxes for individuals and businesses. Kolb noted ...

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New York lawmakers are questioning the cost and motives of Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s plan to bail out three aging upstate nuclear reactors. Members of the state Assembly used a legislative hearing on the subsidies Monday to question state energy officials ...

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ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — Brooklyn lawmakers are pushing an anti-gang bill they say could have prevented the March 16 death of a Bronx fire department emergency medical technician run down by her car-jacked ambulance. Republican Sen. Martin J. Golden gathered ...

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ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — Adrian Thomas falsely confessed to harming his infant son when Troy police told him that admittance could save the boy’s life. Video footage of the nearly 10-hour interrogation revealed what they didn’t tell him: the boy ...

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New York is inching closer to modernizing laws that have left the state trailing behind the rest of the country in juvenile justice. Assembly Democrats passed a criminal justice package Tuesday that includes a hotly contested proposal to raise the ...

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