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 ...

Gerard Kassar, chair of the New York state Conservative Party, has sued Anthony Constantino, the erstwhile NY-21 special election candidate vying for the GOP party line, over claims that Kassar threatened to kill the candidate and then connecting him to an apparent attempt on a top aide’s ...

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — More than 20 mostly Democratic-led states sued the Trump administration Tuesday over its efforts to cut Medicaid payments to the nation’s largest abortion provider — Planned Parenthood. The move comes in response to the package of tax breaks and spending cuts ...

An off-duty New York City police officer and an executive at an investment firm were among the four people killed by a gunman at a Manhattan office tower. The officer, Didarul Islam, was working a corporate security detail Monday at the midtown skyscraper that is home to the headquarters of ...

Assemblyman D. Billy Jones, D-Chateugay Lake, a longtime representative of the North Country known for bringing his daughter Ella, 12, by his side on his travels around the expansive 115th Assembly District, announced he will be stepping down from his seat at the end of August. Jones, the ...