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NEW YORK — A January trial date was set Thursday for former New York Lt. Gov. Brian Benjamin to face charges that he traded his clout as a state senat...

NEW YORK (AP) — A New York City police officer was shot in the arm and the gunman was killed in a shootout in the Bronx, officials said Wednesday. The...

If you want to know what mutually assured destruction looks like, forget about Russia vs. Ukraine for a minute and check out the spectacle of Johnny D...

OLEAN — City police said a woman is facing her third felony drug charge since September after she was reportedly found over the weekend with 122 bags ...

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ALBANY (TNS) — Two state Department of Labor workers allegedly conducted a massive identity fraud scheme to steal more than $1.6 million in unemployme...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Two Rochester -area men pleaded guilty Friday to discharging chemical spray at police officers inside the U.S. Capitol during the Ja...

From going blind on moonshine to a sentence to Old Sparky, from urging changes to protect the planet to injuries at a Thruway tax protest, here’s a lo...

BUFFALO (AP) — An arbitrator has ruled that two Buffalo police officers didn’t violate the department’s use-of-force guidelines when they pushed a 75-...

NEW YORK (TNS) — Democrats are worried. They’re worried about local elections and they’re worried about the national 2022 midterms. So now, after mont...

If you think that catalytic converter theft is a faceless property crime, you’re wrong. A Texas county sheriff’s deputy, Darren Almendarez, lost his l...

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NEW YORK — New York’s attorney general is asking a state appeals court to uphold a lower court ruling requiring former President Donald Trump to answe...

ALBANY (TNS) — Gov. Kathy Hochul took heat Thursday from a pair of primary opponents with very different ideas about her proposed bail changes. Long I...

ALBANY (TNS) — A lot of terrible ideas and proposals have come out of the Capitol over the years — too many to count, really. But a plan announced las...

Chicago has more important things to worry about, and we have more important things to write about, than the well-connected “Empire” actor Jussie Smol...

CYCLONE, Pa. — A Cyclone woman is in McKean County Jail after her dog ate a stash of suspected heroin and got sick. Crysta S. Kramer, 36, is charged w...

Russian President Vladimir Putin has threatened to imprison journalists who dare to report truthfully about Russia’s merciless invasion of Ukraine. Hi...