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ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) - New York's top court says the state Division of Human Rights lacks jurisdiction to investigate students' civil rights complaints against their school districts.
The Court of Appeals is reversing two midlevel courts in...
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) - New York lawmakers have approved legislation requiring doctors to issue drug prescriptions electronically within three years.
Part of a broad measure to curtail abuse of prescription painkillers, it would require the health...
State lawmakers are due to end the 2012 legislative session in just about a week and a half. While Governor Cuomo and legislative leaders are downplaying any hope of major agreements on some key issues, a survey of New Yorkers find that voters want...
Zack Seward, ROCHESTER
A new report from a statewide environmental group says New York's brownfield remediation program is broken. Advocates say too few sites are being redeveloped -- at too high a cost.
Developers were paid $1 billion in...
Daniel Robison, BUFFALO
Each year, more than 1,000 refugees are sent to Buffalo. They're helping to re-populate the shrinking Rust Belt city after a half-century of decline. Most refugees are illiterate in their native languages, yet are...
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) - New York's top court says the saliva of an HIV-infected man who bit a police officer doesn't constitute a deadly weapon or dangerous instrument under state law.
In dismissing the aggravated assault conviction of David...
