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New York advances drone industry with testing corridor
ROME, N.Y. (AP) — Envisioning a day when millions of drones will buzz around delivering packages, watching crops or inspecting pipelines, a coalition is creating an airspace corridor in upstate New...
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New York to boost scheduling protections for hourly workers
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced new regulations Friday that seek to crack down on employers keeping hourly workers “on call,” available to be called in at a moment’s notice....
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Pieces of once-mighty NY bridge get new life in rural towns
Steel and concrete panels that were once part of a mighty bridge that carried 50 million vehicles a year across the Hudson River north of New York City will find new life spanning streams along sleepy...
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Hudson River cleanup focuses on shore after dredging ends
SCHUYLERVILLE, N.Y. (AP) — As General Electric seeks to close the books on a $1.7 billion cleanup of the upper Hudson River, a new fight is simmering over the company’s legacy of toxic pollution in the...
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New York challenging federal government over Hudson dredging
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — New York officials said Thursday they’ll sue if the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency certifies General Electric Co.’s $1.7 billion Superfund cleanup of the upper Hudson River is...
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Sen. Schumer: Bomb-detection units needed at transit hubs
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — U.S. Sen. Chuck Schumer wants the Transportation Security Administration to speed up plans to equip transit hubs with screening devices that can detect suicide vests like the one...
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Sen. Schumer: Bomb-detection units needed at transit hubs
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — U.S. Sen. Chuck Schumer wants the Transportation Security Administration to speed up plans to equip transit hubs with screening devices that can detect suicide vests like the one...
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Sen. Schumer: Bomb-detection units needed at transit hubs
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — Screening devices that detect suicide vests like the one that exploded in a New York City subway tunnel are being tested in a Los Angeles transit station, but U.S. Sen. Chuck...
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New York joining states requiring paid family leave
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — When her baby boy is born in March, Kim Lyons will have an added worry. The child needs surgery to remove extra fingers and toes. But she’ll also have an extra safety net. Under New...
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Victims in basement apartment were mom, 2 kids, 2nd woman
TROY, N.Y. (AP) — Police worked Wednesday to try and unravel the mystery of who killed a woman, her partner and her two young children, whose bodies were found in a riverfront apartment house the day...
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Names released of 2 women, 2 children found slain in home
A city youth group was planning grief counseling and police renewed a plea Thursday for people to come forward with any information leading to the killer of two women and two young children in what the...
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Extreme cold to test New Year’s revelers; some events iced
Dress in layers, lay off the booze and bring some hand warmers. Those are some of the tips offered for the huge crowd of revelers expected in Times Square for what could be one of the coldest New...
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Defendants in slaying of 4 in upstate New York back to jail
TROY, N.Y. (AP) — An additional first-degree murder charge was filed Thursday against one of two men accused of killing two women and two children in a basement apartment. Justin Mann and James White...
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Seized ivory probed for clues that could help save elephants
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — Scientists are using information gleaned from both illegal ivory art and elephant dung to provide clues that could help save the lives of pachyderms that are being slaughtered for...
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Billionaire takes a property-tax stand over pooping geese
Billionaire Tom Golisano says he tried stringing up fishing line, spraying smelly repellent and even posting a wolf decoy, but nothing could rid his lakeside vacation home of the Canada geese that...
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Washington snipped here? College says it found prez’s hair
SCHENECTADY, N.Y. (AP) — Tucked in the pages of a grimy, leather-bound almanac in the archives at New York’s Union College was a tiny envelope with the hand-scrawled words “Washington’s hair.” A...
View ArticleEarly warning sign? More states consider animal-abuser lists
While the main goal of collecting names of animal abusers is to prevent them from being able to adopt or purchase other animals, registry backers say such lists could also be a way to raise red flags...
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‘Sex and the City’ star Cynthia Nixon running for governor
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — Former “Sex and the City” star Cynthia Nixon is running for New York governor. After flirting with a run for months, Nixon tweeted Monday that she will challenge Gov. Andrew Cuomo...
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Driver in deadly armored truck heist granted parole hearing
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — A New York judge has ordered a new parole hearing for a former radical anti-Vietnam War activist who drove a getaway car in a bungled 1981 Brinks heist that left three people dead....
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‘Law and Order’ actress Diane Neal seeks House seat
KINGSTON, N.Y. (AP) — Former “Law and Order” actress Diane Neal is seeking a new role as representative of a sprawling congressional district in upstate New York, saying her long recuperation from a...
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