Annual statewide brush burn ban set to go into effect
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There are significant fines for those not in compliance.
The office says residents who live near rivers or streams should remain alert around this time of year.
Leaders say Thursday’s attack wasn’t an isolated incident and point to a growing trend of antisemitic violence.
Police say the body of a man was found without a head or hands on Davis Hill Road in the town of Andover on March 20, 1970.
City officials recently traveled to Baltimore to meet with their mayor and other officials to see what has worked there.
In her ruling, Judge Lorna Schofield said the government has not shown the likelihood that it will success on the merits of its case.
On May 14, 2022, Payton Gendron killed 10 Black people and injured three at a Tops supermarket on the city's East Side.
Pablo Davis, deputy chief of a technical rescue team, says many people underestimate the power of moving water.
A statement on the legislature's Facebook page Monday night said the legislation passed was "a direct response to the ongoing actions" of ICE.
The quake's epicenter was in Sleepy Hollow, a Hudson Valley community 20 miles north of the five boroughs.
Bin Shao, 56, of Queens, has been charged with five counts of second-degree manslaughter and five counts of criminally negligent homicide.
A Rochester mother fights for answers after her son vanishes, exposing the legal limits police face in adult missing person cases.
The traffic safety enforcement period will begin on Monday, March 9, and run through Tuesday, March 17.
Across the state, places of worship and other locations where the Jewish community gathers are on heightened alert.
Gendron's legal team requested access to the Erie County District Attorney's Files from from the New York state case.
Colin Ahern will serve as the first ever director of Security and Intelligence of New York State.
NYSP says a preliminary investigation indicates no signs of impairment, no evidence of criminality and the incident appears accidental in nature.
Gov. Hochul says there are no credible threats across the state at this time.
Advocates hope assisting with prisoner reentry will reduce recidivism and allow those formerly incarcerated to create meaningful livelihoods.
In 1943, Abner Hunt Francis served nine days as a petit juror, likely only the second Black juror ever in the U.S.
Congressman Tim Kennedy is demanding an immediate and comprehensive federal investigation into the death of Nurul Amin Shah Alam.
A man who went hiking in the town of Schroon was found deceased by authorities after a search, State Police say.
There had been significant outcry to the plans from both local politicians on both sides of the aisle and the community.
Buffalo Mayor Sean Ryan says that he is outraged after a blind, disabled Burmese refugee was found dead days after he was reported missing.
Riley also touted $30 million in federal funding passed for bulletproof vests to protect law enforcement officers.
Proof of life is something often requested in kidnapping situations.
The two were sentenced for conspiring to steal and sell vehicles towed from parking lots in the Capital Region.
On Monday, the company revealed that its water system had been losing a million gallons a day for the last week.
All three lived together at a home on Clinton Avenue.
“That’s been many times. We’ve had to decide whether or not to pay like no internet so we can buy food. It’s just normal routine now.”
Cliff Ryan Jr. says his solitary confinement experience was traumatic.
The union representing those striking workers says the issues that triggered the strike remain unresolved.
Michael Fisher’s trial only lasted five days but it was the deliberations and plea that made this trial unique.
Heavy snow accumulation caused the roof of Abundant Life Fellowship on State Route 12 to slump, which damaged a propane fuel line.
The Society for the Protection and Care of Children has nine significant programs helping some 7,000 individuals.
The list also has its first registered offender, according to District Attorney Brett Eby's office.
In the Western District of New York, which houses the only ICE detention center in the state, 69 habeas petitions have been filed this January.
One year since some New York state COs illegally went on strike, some jails are still seeing backlogging impact.
The city promoted former Assistant Police Chief Brian Whipple to chief on Tuesday morning.
A 21-year-old who slipped off a trial while hiking with her dog was found deceased by rescue crews, authorities said.
Losing a loved one to suicide brings profound grief, something Katelyn Zufall knows all too well.
Starting Monday, the New York State Department of Motor Vehicles has increased point values for serious driving violations.
The NYSCOPBA Central Region VP said there have not been many changes for correction officers since the strike last year.
The bus driver was indicted by a grand jury on multiple counts of second-degree manslaughter and criminally negligent homicide.
With a command center set up in a hotel, more than 70 organizations worked together to find 43 missing kids and counting.
Hearings on age-related death penalty issues will only happen now if the shooter, Payton Gendron, is sentenced to death.
That’s little movement since the days following the strike when the number was placed at more than 4,000 vacancies.
After months of being detained, a CNY couple will be released on bond while waiting for their appeal to be heard.
As temperatures hovering around freezing, the U.S. Coast Guard shares tips to prevent and survive ice rescues.
MEAN Arms will pay $1.75 million to the families of those killed in the 2022 mass shooting.
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