ALBANY — The U.S. Department of Justice has found that former Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo sexually harassed 13 women over eight years while he was the chief executive of New York, according to a settlement with the current governor’s office announced on Friday. The DOJ has been investigating the ...
ALBANY — New York will expand its legal definition of rape to include various forms of nonconsensual sexual contact, under a bill signed into law by Gov. Kathy Hochul on Tuesday. The state’s current limited definition was a factor in writer E. Jean Carroll’s sexual abuse and defamation ...
NEW YORK (AP) — National Rifle Association CEO Wayne LaPierre acknowledged at a civil trial Monday that he wrongly expensed private flights for his family and accepted vacations from vendors doing business with the nonprofit gun rights organization without disclosing them. It was ...
New York City police officers will be required to record the apparent race, gender and ages of most people they stop for questioning under a law passed Tuesday by the City Council, which overrode a veto by Mayor Eric Adams. The issue was thrust into the national spotlight in recent days ...
SARANAC LAKE — A snowmobiler who went through the ice on a channel between Lake Flower and Oseetah Lake on Monday was rescued by a friend and a passerby, and was released in good health by the Saranac Lake Volunteer Rescue Squad. Saranac Lake Volunteer Fire Department Chief Brenden Keough ...
In November, like many recent college graduates, Charlotte Ward returned home for Thanksgiving. Unlike most college graduates, she came back with her new boss, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, in tow. Ward is a native of Jay and a correspondence assistant in Schumer’s office. On the ...