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New York State will be providing $8.4 million in state and federal funding to improve and expand services for adults at risk of abuse, neglect or financial exploitation. The initiative will fund and support 23 existing multidisciplinary teams currently targeting elder abuse and establish... Read More.

Former New York State Assembly Speaker, Sheldon Silver, has been sentenced to seven years in prison. Silver was convicted of corruption in a re-trial that completed in May. He had been convicted at an earlier trial, but a Supreme Court ruling changed the rules... Read More.

New York has provided a $3 million grant towards rehab and preservation of historic Doubleday Field in Cooperstown. Long considered the home of baseball, Doubleday Field officially opened in September 1920 with wooden grandstands and, over the years, grew into the nearly 10,000-seat stadium... Read More.

New York State will be spending an additional $5 million to support improvement projects at New York's animal shelters.  A total of $10 million has been dedicated to the program since 2017. The funding is available to non-profit and municipal animal shelters, humane societies,... Read More.

25 people have been indicted in New York on a fraudulent scheme that involved the suspects impersonating legitimate sellers of cars, tricking victims into paying for those cars, and then wiring the proceeds outside the United States. The victims responded to ads on the... Read More.

The New York State Office of General Services has announced the sale of the former Chateaugay Correctional Facility in Franklin County at public auction for $600,000. The purchaser, Adar Investment Inc. of Canada, would like to see the property used as a summer camp.... Read More.

On Friday, A state Department of Transportation bridge crew in Buffalo was assaulted by a paintball gun from a passing vehicle. Neither person was seriously injured. The State Police is working to identify the responsible parties.

Pennsylvania State Police are investigating a suspicious fire in Susquehanna County’s New Milford Township. There were no injuries in the Tuesday fire on Montrose Road. The house was vacant at the time of the fire. The house was heavily damaged.

Former state Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos was convicted of corruption back in 2015. Last year, the US Supreme Court narrowed the definition of political corruption, and the conviction against Skelos was overturned and a new trial was ordered. Yesterday, Skelos was again found... Read More.