WASHINGTON — Sen. Chuck Schumer said Wednesday that he is “pursuing every legal path” against whoever circulated a forged document accusing him of sexual harassment. Several media outlets were shopped a document alleging Schumer wrongdoing and listing allegations by a ...

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Sen. Charles Schumer is seeking a $33 million grant to implement a high-tech train safety system along part of upstate New York’s main passenger line. Schumer held a news conference Wednesday with Federal Railroad Administration Administrator Sarah Feinberg to highlight ...

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A debt-collection company specializing in student loan defaults says it’s adding 200 jobs in Livingston County, nearly doubling its workforce. The expansion of Coast Professional in Geneseo comes after U.S. Sen. Charles E. Schumer stepped in to make sure the ...

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The nomination of Buffalo attorney Lawrence J. Vilardo for a federal judgeship should come up for a vote on the Senate floor before the end of the year, according to Sen. Charles E. Schumer. New York’s senior senator Thursday told ...

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The office of U.S. Sen. Charles E. Schumer is conducting a statewide lottery for one ticket to the joint meeting of Congress which Pope Francis will address on Sept. 24. Schumer received one guest ticket. Requests are pouring in from ...

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Sen. Charles E. Schumer is urging the White House to immediately approve any disaster declaration request to reimburse Western New York counties pummeled this week in a record-breaking snowstorm. He called senior White House officials Thursday urging the administration to ...

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Providing more illumination will shine a light on what is known in the boating community as an optical illusion. And proponents of a call to put extra lights on the Summerville Pier on Lake Ontario say it will save lives. ...

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ALBANY (AP) — U.S. Sen. Charles Schumer wants the federal government to boost the number of physician residency slots in areas facing declines in their number of doctors. Schumer’s legislation would boost the number of residency positions funded by Medicare ...

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In September, a woman and her son were followed by 20 male teens and robbed of a cellphone in Rochester. In February, a 12-year-old boy on his phone was robbed of the device while getting off his city school bus. ...

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Sen. Charles E. Schumer is pushing for a meeting in Washington for officials from Seneca and Cayuga counties to on the status of a the Cayuga Indian Nation’s land-into-trust application. The nation’s application to have about 125 acres in the ...

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A statute of abolitionist statesman Frederick Douglass, one of Rochester’s most famous residents, is finally at home in Emancipation Hall at the U.S. Capitol. The arrival of the sculpture was celebrated Wednesday by U.S. Sen. Charles E. Schumer, D-NY, who ...

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Of the estimated 50,000 veterans living in Monroe County, only about 33,000 have applied to receive property tax exemptions available to them. Worse, according to Sen. Charles E. Schumer, many of these veterans have never been told of the availability ...

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