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Police abuse of power often involves not only the abuser but also those who enable the abuse through inaction and silence. They are virtually never pr...

On the anniversary of the death of George Floyd, dozens of gunshots rang out in the middle of the day at George Floyd Square in Minneapolis, forcing r...

NEW YORK — The Derek Chauvin jury voted with their eyes. The infamous video of Chauvin, the former Minneapolis police officer, kneeling on the neck of...

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

OLEAN — Jamel R. Burney Sr. was working Tuesday afternoon as word came out that the Hennepin County jury in Minnesota had reached a verdict in the mur...

MINNEAPOLIS — Former Minneapolis Officer Derek Chauvin was convicted Tuesday of murder and manslaughter for pinning George Floyd to the pavement with ...

New York state officials and the mayor of Olean reacted Tuesday evening to jury verdicts that found former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin gu...

ALBANY (TNS ) — An overwhelming majority of New Yorkers back federal police reforms — including banning chokeholds and creating a national database of...

ALBANY (TNS) — Courts in New York must now publish new demographic data on arrests under a bill signed into law Monday by Gov. Andrew Cuomo. Courts wi...

I need to preface this column with a clear, straight-forward comment which should be obvious to everyone. There are violent looters, arsonists and thu...

U.S. Rep. Tom Reed said Tuesday he was disappointed with the police reform bill introduced by the House Democratic leadership. “I am disappointed the ...

U.S. Rep. Tom Reed created a degree of separation with President Donald Trump Wednesday as the congressman said he didn’t agree with deploying U.S. mi...

When Buffalo Bills head coach Sean McDermott spoke to his team for the first time after the killing of George Floyd last week, he decided the best way...

The hatred was evident in Tampa’s Hixon Hall on Dec. 18 and 19, 1967. The St. Bonaventure men’s basketball team, amid an unbeaten regular season behin...

ALBANY (TNS ) — Gov. Andrew Cuomo used his daily press briefing Tuesday to send a message to New York City police and Mayor Bill de Blasio after anoth...

(TNS) Recent days sometimes seemed like a return to the 1960s, as a gleaming spacecraft carried American astronauts aloft while a series of protests r...

A protest that grew to as large as about 40 people on Main Street and in Veterans Square in Bradford remained peaceful throughout the afternoon and ev...

NEW YORK (TNS) — Protesters in cities across the country are right to express outrage, but they also must know what reforms they’re trying to advance,...