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ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) - With New York set to become the first state to require lawyers to perform 50 hours of pro bono work as a condition for getting a license, Chief Judge Jonathan Lippman and other officials plan to unveil details in Manhattan....
The Buffalo Public Schools received good news last year: its four-year graduation rate rose by seven percent. Still, nearly half the district's high school students fail to earn a diploma. The struggling urban school system continues to look for...
Soprano Andrea Gregori and tenor Steven Nanni speak with WSKG's Bill Snyder.  They are two of the five musicians presenting "Glitter and Gold, Operatic Jewels of the Gilded Age" in the Roberson Museum on Sunday, September 16th at...
The natural gas industry sees hopeful signs in a new poll that finds more New Yorkers now support hydrofracking. A Quinnipiac University survey also finds upstaters, who live where the gas drilling process would occur, back fracking in greater...
Actress Cynthia Henderson speaks with WSKG's Bill Snyder about the one-woman play "No Child" presented by Readers' Theatre of Ithaca.  More details here.
Pennsylvania's new fee on gas drillers has raised more than $200 million, most of which will be distributed to counties and towns to fix roads, restore water supplies and pay other expenses borne by local governments in the Marcellus Shale...