ALBANY — A day before a series of changes to the state’s criminal discovery laws went into effect, Gov. Kathy Hochul took a victory lap. “This is a day that will forever be remembered as a day we took back our streets and our communities and made them safer,” Hochul declared ...

ALBANY — A day before a series of changes to the state’s criminal discovery laws went into effect, Gov. Kathy Hochul took a victory lap. “This is a day that will forever be remembered as a day we took back our streets and our communities and made them safer,” Hochul declared ...

WASHINGTON — The Justice Department has subpoenaed New York Attorney General Letitia James as part of an investigation into whether she violated President Donald Trump’s civil rights, according to people familiar with the matter. The subpoenas sought records related to a lawsuit James ...

The temperature in Ossining topped 90 degrees three times in late July; at its worst, the heat index hit 109. While much of the Westchester County community found respite in air conditioning or cool showers, Joseph Desmond spent the heat wave locked in what he described as a “hotbox”: his ...

LOCKPORT — Alissa Ellman thinks that her current representative in Congress isn’t doing the job right, isn’t representing the community and isn’t listening to constituents. So she’s running to do the job herself. Ellman, 41, said she decided to run for Congress in New York’s ...

UTICA (AP) — A former corrections officer was sentenced to 15 years in prison Monday for his role in the death of a Black inmate whose beating by a group of guards at an upstate New York prison was captured on bodycam videos. Christopher Walrath was one of six guards charged with murder ...