By Tom Precious
- NEWS ALBANY BUREAU Updated: 05/09/08 6:33 AM
ALBANY — A statewide emergency radio system being first tested in Western New York has passed a key evaluation, just months after an embarrassing first round of tests showed the system failed to work in large sections of Buffalo.
NEW YORK (AP) — A day after his carefully orchestrated protests briefly blocked rush-hour traffic, the Rev. Al Sharpton promised Thursday to stage another mass protest over last month’s acquittal of three police detectives in the 50-bullet killing of an unarmed man.
LAKE RONKONKOMA (AP) — The Navy plans to name a destroyer after a Long Island-born officer killed in Afghanistan in 2005 who received the Medal of Honor.
HERKIMER (AP) — State police say they have arrested a 14-year-old boy on charges of trying to kill his stepfather and his 11-year-old stepbrother by poisoning them with antifreeze.
By Tom Hays and David B. Caruso
- ASSOCIATED PRESS Updated: 05/08/08 6:31 AM
NEW YORK — The Rev. Al Sharpton was among 216 people arrested Wednesday as demonstrators blocked traffic at the height of the evening rush hour to protest last month’s acquittal of three detectives in the 50-bullet fatal shooting of an unarmed black man on his wedding day.
MALONE (AP) — Authorities continued their search Wednesday for a suspected drug smuggler who drove off after U. S. Border Patrol agents shot his companion during a thwarted smuggling attempt at the Canadian border.
ALBANY (AP) — State Attorney General Andrew Cuomo wants the New York Power Authority to provide the names of employees who deleted e-mails from a computer and phone used by the authority’s inspector general, Daniel Wiese.
NEW YORK (AP) — The New York Civil Liberties Union filed a lawsuit Wednesday challenging the New York Police Department’s practice of stopping hundreds of thousands of people each year for questioning, saying it is racially biased.
ONEIDA (AP) — Sen. Charles E. Schumer, D-N. Y., urged the Interior Department to hold off ruling on the Oneida Indian Nation’s application to place its land in trust to avoid state and local taxes and regulation.
NEW YORK (AP) — Prosecutors announced an indictment Tuesday against a reputed Russian arms smuggler who they say tried to sell weapons to Colombia’s leftist rebels with the goal of killing Americans there.
By Tom Precious
- NEWS ALBANY BUREAU Updated: 05/06/08 9:43 AM
A prominent local official is near the top of the list of so-called “double dippers” named over the weekend in a newspaper story about state government workers who collect retirement pensions at the same time as they get paychecks from their new jobs.
