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NEW YORK — A New York civil rights organization sued the state’s court system Thursday seeking to overturn a law barring people with felony conviction...

After state House Republicans managed to rid themselves of Rep. Nick Miccarrelli in 2018, after he allegedly sexually harassed fellow Republican Rep. ...

The New York State Department of Transportation (NYSDOT) announced Wednesday that culvert replacement work will begin on a portion of Interstate 86 in...

ALBANY — Liberal groups are calling on New York lawmakers to use the last days of the legislative session to pass bills related to the criminal justic...

LITTLE VALLEY — A Kill Buck man was sentenced in Cattaraugus County Court Monday to 10 years’ probation on charges of possessing a sexual performance ...

ROCHESTER (AP) — Two people have been arrested in connection with a fatal shooting last month in Rochester, New York, police said Friday. Kyrique Mass...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Former New York Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silve r will be returned to federal prison after federal authorities denied him home confin...

MINNEAPOLIS — Relief, even if fleeting and momentary, is a feeling that Black Americans have rarely known in America: From slavery to Jim Crow segrega...

Gov. Andrew Cuomo on Wednesday signed the Marijuana Regulation and Taxation Act that legalizes the recreational use of marijuana by adults. Count stat...

“We the People. …” That phrase has endured for 244 years as the pillar of the U.S. Constitution, which has stood as America’s triumphant experiment in...

NEW YORK — Former New York Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver was sentenced Monday to 6 1/2 years in prison in the corruption case that drove him from po...

LITTLE VALLEY — An Olean woman was sentenced in Cattaraugus County Court earlier this week to three years’ probation for her conviction of seventh-deg...

LITTLE VALLEY — An Olean man was sentenced in Cattaraugus County Court Monday as a predicate felon to three years in state prison. Dwayne Higgs, 39, c...

LITTLE VALLEY — A Salamanca man faces two to four years in state prison for violating a court order. Yancy Dowdy, 32, was sentenced last week by Count...

LITTLE VALLEY — A Salamanca woman was sentenced in Cattaraugus County Court Monday to one year in the Cattaraugus County Jail for her conviction of ma...

LITTLE VALLEY — An Allegany woman was sentenced in Cattaraugus County Court Monday to five years probation for her conviction of fourth-degree welfare...

LITTLE VALLEY — An Olean man has been sentenced in Cattaraugus County Court as a predicate felon to three years in state prison plus three years of po...

Bail reform is coming to New York state on Jan. 1 and there is a great deal of misinformation and alarmist hype being circulated on this issue. Contra...