State
- Hearing set on disparity in state lottery system
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Updated: 08/28/08 7:10 AM
- An Assembly committee wants to hear about how the disparity in the state’s lottery sales and winnings affects the poor in Buffalo, who are less likely to win when they play the lottery, based on the types of tickets they buy.
- Officer denies violating woman’s civil rights
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Updated: 08/28/08 6:55 AM
- WHITE PLAINS (AP) — Despite a video that shows him body-slamming a woman to the floor, a policeman charged with violating her civil rights plans to take his case to trial, his lawyer said Wednesday.
- $3 million lottery prize donated to church
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Updated: 08/28/08 6:55 AM
- PORT JEFFERSON (AP) — A man who scratched off a lottery ticket and realized it was worth $3 million promptly donated it to his church, his pastor said Wednesday.
- HIV infection rate is triple that of nation
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Updated: 08/28/08 6:55 AM
- NEW YORK (AP) — New data show New York City residents are contracting the virus that causes AIDS at three times the national rate.
- Trooper’s widow sues county for role in friendly-fire death
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By Maki Becker
NEWS STAFF REPORTER
Updated: 08/27/08 6:51 AM
- The widow of slain trooper David C. Brinkerhoff has filed a lawsuit against St. Lawrence County and its probation department for failing to properly handle the probation case of the man who started the gun-battle that left Brinkerhoff dead, her attorneys said Tuesday.
- Rosenberg spy case data is freed up
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By Larry Neumeister
- ASSOCIATED PRESS
Updated: 08/27/08 6:50 AM
- NEW YORK — A judge ordered the release Tuesday of key secret grand jury testimony in the atomic spy trial of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, citing its value to historians in the continuing debate over national security versus freedom.
- City’s oldest bridge to emerge from neglect
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Updated: 08/27/08 6:50 AM
- NEW YORK (AP) — The city’s oldest standing bridge, closed since the 1970s and neglected for decades, is on the road to recovery as the main attraction in what will be a refurbished recreational area.
- Giants Stadium slated for 9/11 beam-signing
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Updated: 08/27/08 6:50 AM
- NEW YORK (AP) — Steel bound for the Sept. 11 memorial is going on tour at Giants Stadium.
- JetBlue pilot aborts takeoff due to smoke
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Updated: 08/27/08 6:50 AM
- NEW YORK (AP) — JetBlue said one of its flights returned to Kennedy Airport on Tuesday when the pilot reported smelling smoke in the cockpit shortly after takeoff.
- Back in U. S., 8 who were detained in China tell of being interrogated
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By Sara Kugler
- ASSOCIATED PRESS
Updated: 08/26/08 6:55 AM
- NEW YORK — Eight American activists jailed by the Chinese for protesting during the Olympics and sent home during Sunday’s closing ceremony said Monday that they were interrogated for hours, deprived of sleep and accused of having ties to the U. S. government.
- 1,000 attend funeral of traffic agent, son
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Updated: 08/26/08 6:55 AM
- NEW YORK (AP) — A pregnant New York City traffic agent fatally struck by a van and the son who died after being delivered by Caesarean section lay together Monday in a coffin at their funeral.
- Booker admits guilt in Spitzer case
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By Adam Goldman
- ASSOCIATED PRESS
Updated: 08/26/08 6:55 AM
- NEW YORK — The last of four defendants charged in the prostitution scandal that brought down former Gov. Eliot
- DEC says nuclear plant kills too many fish
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Updated: 08/26/08 6:55 AM
- WHITE PLAINS (AP) — The huge numbers of fish sucked to their death by the cooling system at the Indian Point nuclear plant prove that the system harms the Hudson River environment, a state official has ruled.
- Businessman accused of posing as doctor
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Updated: 08/26/08 6:55 AM
- NEW YORK (AP) — Prosecutors accuse a businessman of pretending to be a doctor and paying women to undergo gynecological exams as part of a phony insurance survey.
- More farmers markets accepting food stamps
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By Valerie Bauman
- ASSOCIATED PRESS
Updated: 08/25/08 6:54 AM
- ALBANY — More farmers markets nationwide are accepting food stamps for their summer squash, apples and other fresh produce — fattening profits for farmers while creating healthier options for low-income families as food prices soar.
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