State
Seeking to smart-size government
State Attorney General Andrew M. Cuomo challenged government officials and regular citizens Thursday to take advantage of a new law that makes it easy to consolidate or even dissolve some of the 10,521 layers of government in New York. (Updated: 07/03/09 6:56 AM )
Stalemated Senate hopes Paterson can mediate
ALBANY — Negotiations suddenly stepped up Thursday evening to resolve the nearly month-old partisan logjam in the State Senate, as the clashing factions turned to Gov. David A. Paterson to help mediate the impasse. (Updated: 07/03/09 6:54 AM )
Man who shot himself during traffic stop dies
NEW PALTZ (AP)—A Warren County man who shot himself in the head during a traffic stop on the Thruway in the Hudson Valley has died. (Updated: 07/03/09 6:54 AM )
July 4 display returns to Hudson River
NEW YORK (AP)—New York City is expanding the nation’s biggest July 4 display from a new vantage point—the Hudson River. (Updated: 07/03/09 6:54 AM )
Guantanamo detainee gets 2010 trial date
NEW YORK (AP)—A September 2010 trial has been set for a Guantanamo detainee charged in the 1998 bombings of two U. S. embassies in Africa. (Updated: 07/03/09 6:54 AM )
Expansion plans OK’d for convention center
NEW YORK (AP)—The long-awaited renovation and expansion of New York City’s Jacob K. Javits Convention Center has been approved by the Public Authority Control Board. (Updated: 07/03/09 6:54 AM )
Assembly’s Democrats resist pleas as Senate keeps spinning its wheels
ALBANY—Resisting calls to get into the middle of the State Senate’s tribulations, Assembly Democrats are refusing to help Senate Democrats transmit more than 100 bills to the governor that the Senate Democrats passed Tuesday in a session that Republicans say was illegal. (Updated: 07/02/09 6:59 AM )
Swedish author can’t publish sequel to Salinger’s ‘Rye’ in U. S.
NEW YORK — A Swedish author whose new book was promoted as a sequel to J. D. Salinger’s “The Catcher in the Rye” cannot publish it in the United States because it too closely mirrors Salinger’s classic without adequate parody or critique, a judge ruled Wednesday. (Updated: 07/02/09 6:59 AM )
School Board gives chancellor full control
NEW YORK (AP)—A hastily appointed Board of Education gave Schools Chancellor Joel Klein full authority over the city’s education system Wednesday after the State Senate failed to act on a bill to renew Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg’s control of the schools. (Updated: 07/02/09 6:59 AM )
Robbers run out of fuel after gas station theft
KIRKWOOD(AP)—Two Pennsylvania men robbed a New York gas station and might have gotten away if they had remembered to fuel up, police said. (Updated: 07/02/09 6:59 AM )
‘Black Box’ warnings mandated for 2 drugs
NEW YORK (AP)—The Food and Drug Administration will require two smoking-cessation drugs, Chantix and Zyban, to carry the agency’s strongest safety warning over side effects, including depression and suicidal thoughts. (Updated: 07/02/09 6:59 AM )
City to pay $25,000 to settle race-based suit
NEW YORK (AP)—The city of New York will pay $25,000 to settle a lawsuit filed by a man who said he was unfairly stopped and searched in the subway because of his race. (Updated: 07/02/09 6:59 AM )
Short-cut takes bizarre twist in State Senate gridlock
ALBANY — State senators were paid Tuesday to argue over who could sit in the biggest chair in the chamber, debate whether a Republican looking for a can of Coke could be counted for a quorum and to haggle over whether bills passed by one faction are legal or a sham. (Updated: 07/01/09 8:05 AM )
Three held in assault and anti-gay remarks
MASTIC BEACH (AP)—Police on eastern Long Island said they have arrested three people on aggravated harassment charges after they kicked and hit a victim while uttering anti-gay remarks. (Updated: 07/01/09 7:04 AM )
Two Muslim holidays sought in schools
NEW YORK (AP)—New York’s City Council has passed a nonbinding resolution asking the Education Department to observe two important Muslim holidays. But Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg said the city is so diverse schools can’t observe every holiday. (Updated: 07/01/09 7:04 AM )
