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Ruth Bader Ginsburg was not a judge. She was a justice. A judge sits on a lower court, hearing criminal and civil cases as they enter into the judicia...

ALBANY (TNS) — Judges of color from across the state have signed a letter saying that there is much work to be done to ensure racial equity in the cou...

NEW YORK — New York’s Democratic Party leadership gave up trying to cancel the state’s June 23 presidential primary Tuesday after an appeals court rej...

ALBANY (AP) — The hottest controversy at the statehouse for the first two months of the year — the fight over how much leeway judges should have to lo...

HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Pennsylvania smashed its single-day high for reported coronavirus-related deaths, recording 78 more fatalities and nearly 1,600...

LITTLE VALLEY — Cattaraugus County Court Judge Ronald D. Ploetz will conduct County Court via Skype for Business, beginning Monday. The videoconferenc...

LITTLE VALLEY — A state Supreme Court judge heard arguments Thursday in a lawsuit filed by Alle-Catt Wind Energy LLC against the town of Freedom. Atto...

ALBANY — Senate Democrats are on the hot seat after proposing changes to the state’s recently enacted bail reforms. Opponents of the tweaks are hammer...

A ruling by Acting State Supreme Court Judge Terrence Parker, received over the weekend, could mean some big changes in the proposed Alle-Catt Wind Fa...

SALAMANCA — Auditions for the second annual “Southern Tier’s Got Talent” competition are set for 7 p.m. Feb. 8 at the Ray Evans Seneca Theater on Main...

ALBANY — Teenage vapers caught a break from an upstate judge who ruled that Gov. Cuomo’s ban on e-cigarettes flavored with anything other than tobacco...

SYRACUSE — As his courtroom waited, an Onondaga County Court judge launched Friday morning into a extraordinary evisceration of New York’s new bail la...

BELMONT — Justice Steven Presutti may be retiring at the end of this month, but he’s not going away. After 41 years on the bench as Amity Town judge a...

LITTLE VALLEY — A state Supreme Court judge reserved a decision Thursday on a motion from the Freedom Town Board to reconsider an earlier ruling overt...

NEW YORK (TNS) — A Manhattan judge lamented “the law is stupid” in a startlingly sharp rebuke of sweeping criminal justice reforms on the horizon duri...

Freedom Town Justice Gary Chamberlain resigned last month while under investigation for alleged misconduct by the New York State Commission on Judicia...

CLIFTON PARK — Calling New York’s upcoming bail reforms a “criminal Bill of Rights,” Republican state Sen. James Tedisco proposed a law Monday with De...

BELMONT — In numerous locations across the state, hundreds of district attorneys, sheriffs, police chiefs, police union members and other law enforcem...