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Not pot: US hemp farms take root under state pilot programs
EATON, N.Y. (AP) — A lush field of cannabis growing on a secluded hilltop in central New York may look and smell like marijuana, but its myriad uses don’t include getting high. New York’s first legal...
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Barge parking lot? Hudson River plan draws ire of residents
KINGSTON, N.Y. (AP) — From her clifftop cottage, Carolyn Marks Blackwood enjoys a sweeping view of the Hudson River and distant Catskill Mountains that once inspired the painter Frederick Church. Now,...
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New trouble in hardscrabble town: Blood tests for chemical
NEWBURGH, N.Y. (AP) — In this chronically struggling city along the Hudson River, residents beset by poverty, high crime and boarded-up homes now have an entirely new worry — that their tap water may...
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Accountant admits stealing $3 million from N.Y. grain shipper
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — A corporate accountant in New York admitted Monday to stealing at least $3.1 million from agribusiness giant Cargill, Inc., and causing $25 million in losses to the privately held...
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Mohawks become first tribe to take down a federal dam
HOGANSBURG, N.Y. (AP) — A century after the first commercial dam was built on the St. Regis River, blocking the spawning runs of salmon and sturgeon, the stream once central to the traditional culture...
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Hydroelectric engineers find potential in centuries-old mine
MINEVILLE, N.Y. (AP) — Some look at an abandoned, centuries-old iron mine in New York’s Adirondacks and see a relic. An ambitious group of engineers sees the shafts in Mineville as a new way to provide...
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New York man gets 30 years in prison in X-ray weapon plot
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — A New York industrial mechanic convicted of attempting to produce a mobile X-ray device intended to kill Muslims has been sentenced in federal court to 30 years in prison....
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Not just for skiers: Gondolas seen as urban transit solution
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — Instead of fighting traffic or waiting for a taxi, rail travelers arriving at New York’s capital may one day soar across the Hudson River in glassy pods suspended from cables. That...
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States face off over future of Obama global warming plan
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — Two weeks after officials in two dozen states asked Republican President-elect Donald Trump to kill one of Democratic President Barack Obama’s signature plans to curb global...
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States face off over future of Obama global-warming plan
Democratic attorneys general in 15 states, including Washington state, plus four cities and counties sent a letter to Donald Trump asking him to preserve Obama’s Clean Power Plan, officials announced...
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Cuomo pitches 750-mile biking-hiking trail plan for NY state
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo is proposing to complete and connect two greenway trails crisscrossing the state from Manhattan to Canada and from Albany to Buffalo to create a 750-mile...
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Insurance equality? States push for cost-free vasectomies
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — Call it contraception equality. Vasectomies, which are not covered under President Barack Obama’s health care law, are increasingly being included in state measures that would...
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No free lunch: Donors come forward to erase students’ debts
Ashley C. Ford felt driven to act by a sad fact of life in the nation’s school cafeterias: Kids with unpaid lunch accounts are often embarrassed with a substitute meal of a cold cheese sandwich and a...
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No tackling? Lawmaker seeks ultimate answer to football hits
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — Growing evidence of a link between football hits and brain injuries has led all 50 states to pass laws aimed at protecting young people from concussions, but a New York lawmaker...
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10 snowmobilers die in thinly frozen lakes in mild Northeast
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — Ten snowmobilers have died in thinly frozen lakes across the Northeast during this mild winter. Most of the accidents happened in New York state, where officials warned that,...
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Toughening penalties if pets are harmed during crimes
FLORIDA, N.Y. (AP) — When Denise Krohn came home to find her goldendoodle Kirby bleeding on the kitchen floor, she at first thought it was a terrible accident. But she soon realized that her home had...
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Governor awash in controversy over 25-cent cups of milk
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — The governor is finding out that, in politics, something as simple as a 25-cent cup of milk can turn sour fast. Just last summer, Democratic Gov. Andrew Cuomo was hailed as a hero...
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Parole denied for Brinks heist getaway driver Judith Clark
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — A former Weather Underground radical who drove a getaway car in a bungled 1981 Brinks armored-car robbery that left three people dead was denied parole on Friday despite the fact...
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Giraffe’s baby bump boosts tiny zoo’s upkeep, conservation
April the giraffe has brought a bundle to a tiny zoo in rural upstate New York, thanks to a YouTube video livestream of her pregnancy and birth of an incredibly cute calf that has riveted viewers...
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New rules or rain? Lake Ontario residents seethe over floods
Four months after an international body approved a new plan for regulating Lake Ontario’s water level, property owners who had claimed the rules favored muskrat lodges over lakeside homes are piling...
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