MICHAEL HILL

FILE - A view of the United States Military Academy at West Point, N.Y., May 2, 2019. West Point was sued in federal court on Tuesday, Sept. 19, 2023, for using race and ethnicity as factors in admissions by the same group behind the lawsuit that resulted in the U.S. Supreme Court striking down affirmative action in college admissions. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig, File)
West Point sued over using race as an admissions factor in the wake of landmark Supreme Court ruling
West Point was accused in a federal lawsuit of improperly using race and ethnicity as factors in admissions by the same group behind the legal challenge that resulted in the U.S. Supreme Court striking down affirmative action in college admissions.
 
Lewis Pugh swims along the edge of lower Manhattan in New York, Wednesday, Sept. 13, 2023. The Hudson River is 315 miles from its source in the Adirondack Mountains to New York City. And Pugh is swimming all of it. The 53-year-old endurance swimmer finished the leg of his monthlong river journey Wednesday at the lower tip of Manhattan. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)
Hudson River swimmer completes 315-mile trek, conquering fatigue, choppy water, rocks and pollution
The Hudson River is 315 miles from its source in the Adirondack Mountains to New York City. Lewis Pugh finished swimming all of it on Wednesday.
 
FILE - Onondaga County sheriff's officers work at the scene of a shooting in the Syracuse, N.Y., suburb of DeWitt, N.Y., Wednesday, Sept. 6, 2023. New York's New York's attorney general released a video Tuesday, Sept. 12, 2023, of a county sheriff's deputy firing a gun into a fleeing car and fatally wounding two teenagers, raising questions about whether the officer needed to use deadly force to avoid being run over. (Dennis Nett/The Post-Standard via AP, FIle)
Video shows white sheriff’s deputy in upstate New York fatally shooting 2 Black teens in fleeing car
New York’s attorney general has released a video of an upstate deputy firing into a fleeing car and killing two teens, raising questions about whether the officer needed to use deadly force to avoid being run over.
 
FILE - New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo prepares to board a helicopter after announcing his resignation, Aug. 10, 2021, in New York. A commission created by New York's governor and Legislature in 2022 as an independent ethics authority violates the state constitution because it is beyond the governor's control, a state judge said Monday, Sept. 11, 2023, in a ruling in favor of Cuomo, the state's former governor. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig, File)
The New York ethics commission that pursued former Governor Cuomo is unconstitutional, a judge says
A judge has ruled that a commission created last year to enforce ethics rules for New York state’s employees and elected officials is unconstitutional because it is too independent. The ruling Monday came in a lawsuit filed by former Gov.
 
Paul Hudson, left, West Point archeologist, and Michael Diaz, West Point Museum curator, take part in the opening of a lead box believed to have been placed in the base of a monument by cadets almost two centuries ago, at the U.S. Military Academy, Monday, Aug. 28, 2023, in West Point, N.Y. The box contained silt. (AP Photo/Michael Hill)
After lots of hype, West Point treasure box opening yields no bombshells, just silt
A lead box believed to have been placed in the base of a West Point monument by cadets almost two centuries ago yielded no bombshells when unsealed during a livestreamed event, just silt. An audience at the U.S.
 
In this photo provided by the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, Kenneth Allen, professor of nuclear engineering, conducts an X-ray on a time capsule, Friday, June 9, 2023. The long-forgotten time capsule, a small lead box measuring about a cubic foot, was discovered in May 2023, during restoration to a monument honoring Revolutionary War hero Thaddeus Kosciuszko on the grounds of West Point, in New York. The box will be opened during a livestreamed event, Monday, Aug. 28. (Christopher Hennen/U.S. Army via AP)
Ten-hut Time Machine? West Point to open time capsule possibly left by cadets in the 1820s
The contents of a long-forgotten time capsule recently discovered inside the base of a monument at West Point and believed to have been left by cadets in the late 1820s are set to be revealed.
 
FILE - A sign warning of radioactive materials is seen on a fence around a nuclear reactor containment building, April 26, 2021, a few days before it stopped generating electricity at Indian Point Energy Center, in Buchanan, N.Y. A measure to block radiological discharges into the Hudson River as part of the Indian Point nuclear plant's decommissioning was signed by New York Gov. Kathy Hochul, Friday, Aug. 18, 2023. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig, File)
New York governor blocks discharge of radioactive water into Hudson River from closed nuclear plant
A measure to block discharges of radioactive water into the Hudson River as part of the Indian Point nuclear plant’s decommissioning has been signed into law by New York Gov. Kathy Hochul.
 
FILE — Police secure an area around a supermarket where several people were killed in a shooting, May 14, 2022 in Buffalo, N.Y. Multiple lawsuits have been filed in the wake of the shooting claiming tech and social media giants like Facebook, Amazon and Google bear responsibility for radicalizing shooter Payton Gendron.(Derek Gee/The Buffalo News via AP, File)
Buffalo shooting survivors say social media companies and a body armor maker enabled the killer
A pair of lawsuits claim social media companies and a body armor manufacturer enabled the gunman who killed 10 Black people in a racist attack at a Buffalo, New York, supermarket.
 
Former pizza shop owner Mohammed Hossain, who was arrested by federal authorities in 2004 as part of a counter-terrorism sting and sentenced to 15 years in jail, talks about his time in prison and the rehabbing work he is doing on his rental property, Monday, July 31, 2023, in Albany, N.Y. Hossain and Yassin Aref were arrested as part of a fictitious plot to launder money from the sale of a shoulder-fired missile. Convicted in 2006, both men are out of prison and maintain their innocence. (AP Photo/Hans Pennink)
A judge called an FBI operative a ‘villain.’ Ruling comes too late for 2 convicted in terror sting
A federal judge recently ordered the release of three of the “Newburgh Four,” who were arrested in 2009 in a fictitious plot to destroy military planes and New York synagogues.
 
FILE - Bishop Howard Hubbard swings incense during an Ash Wednesday communion service at the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception on Feb. 25, 2004, in Albany, N.Y. The 84-year-old retired bishop of Albany, who has been accused of sexual abuse and has unsuccessfully sought to be removed from the priesthood, said Tuesday, Aug. 1, 2024, he recently married a woman in a civil ceremony. (AP Photo/Jim McKnight, File)
Retired bishop in New York state gets married after bid to leave priesthood denied
An 84-year-old retired bishop of Albany says he recently married a woman in a civil ceremony. Emeritus Bishop Howard Hubbard last fall said he wanted to be returned to the lay state because he could no longer function as a priest due to a U.S. church policy that bars priests accused of abuse from mi
 
FILE — A coyote runs across New York state Route 3 outside of Tupper Lake, N.Y., in the Adirondacks, Sept. 20, 2010. New York could ban contests that involve killing coyotes, squirrels and some other wildlife species for cash prizes. (Mike Lynch/Adirondack Daily Enterprise via AP, File)
New York considers ban on cash prize contests for hunting coyotes, squirrels, some other wildlife
The contests have names such as Predator Slam, Squirrel Scramble and Final Fling for Fox. And they sometimes challenge hunters to bag the heaviest coyote or the heftiest bunch of squirrels to win a cash prize.
 
FILE — A voter moves to cast her ballot at an electronic counting machine at a polling site at the Brooklyn Museum, Nov. 8, 2022, in the Brooklyn borough of New York. A mid-level state appeals court on Thursday, July 13, 2023, ordered new congressional lines be drawn for New York, a ruling that could benefit Democrats in the 2024 fight for control of the U.S. House. ( AP Photo/John Minchillo, File)
Appeals court orders new congressional lines in New York, a potential boon for Democrats
A mid-level state appeals court has ordered new congressional lines be drawn for New York. The ruling Thursday could benefit Democrats in the 2024 fight for control of the U.S. House.
 
FILE - New York Attorney General Letitia James speaks during a ceremony on June 6, 2022, in New York. James charged in lawsuit, Wednesday, June 28, 2023, that operators of four nursing homes in New York misused more than $83-million in government money and neglected residents, including some who were malnourished or were left to sit for hours in their own urine and feces. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer, File)
Nursing homes accused of mistreating residents, misusing $83 million in lawsuit from New York AG
New York state Attorney General Letitia James charges in a lawsuit that the operators of four nursing homes in New York neglected residents and misused more than $83 million in government funds.
 
FILE — Zeneta Everhart poses for a portrait in her home in Buffalo, N.Y., Jan. 27, 2023. Everhart, one of two Black women in Buffalo who were thrust into the national spotlight for very different reasons, are competing in a Democratic primary contest Tuesday, June 27, 2023, for a Buffalo city council seat. (AP Photo/Robert Bumsted, File)
Zeneta Everhart, mother of Buffalo mass shooting survivor, wins City Council primary
Zeneta Everhart became a well-known community advocate after her son survived a racist mass shooting in Buffalo. On Tuesday, she won a Democratic primary to represent a neighborhood near where the deadly shooting happened.
 
Challenge to New York’s new gun law filed by GOP candidate
A federal lawsuit challenging part of New York’s new gun law was filed by Republican congressional candidate Carl Paladino.
 
AG releases interview transcripts in Cuomo harassment probe
New York’s attorney general has released hundreds of pages of transcripts of interviews conducted during an investigation into sexual harassment allegations made against former Gov. Andrew Cuomo.
 
Cuomo aide says he slammed door shut before groping her
A staffer who has accused New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo of groping her tells a newspaper he slammed a door and told her “I don’t care” when she warned someone might see what he was doing.
 
Some NY nursing homes proved helpless in face of virus surge
As the coronavirus made an end-of-the-year surge across New York, some nursing homes proved especially helpless at stopping the spread of COVID-19, despite having nine months to stockpile protective equipment and refine preventative measures.
 
Nursing home disclosures taint Cuomo’s pandemic performance
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo faces intensifying accusations that he covered up the true death toll of COVID-19 on nursing home residents.
 
Longtime New York Senate GOP leader Joseph Bruno dies at 91
Former state Senate Majority Leader Joseph Bruno has died at age 91. Bruno rose from poverty to become one of New York’s most powerful politicians for more than a decade starting in the mid-1990s. He was a crucial Republican ally of former Gov.
 
Feds fault operator, regulators in limo crash that killed 20
Federal investigators examining the 2018 crash of a stretch limousine that killed 20 people say state regulators repeatedly failed to properly oversee the poorly maintained vehicle.
 
NYC checkpoint plan announced, unions question school plans
Travelers coming to New York City from 35 states and territories on the state’s COVID-19 quarantine list may soon be met at bridges and train stations and told to fill out travel forms.
 
Amid violations, Cuomo prepared to reverse local re-openings
Upset by “rampant” violations of New York’s pandemic-fighting restrictions, Gov. Andrew Cuomo threatened Sunday to pull liquor licenses of scofflaw restaurants and even reinstate closings in areas where local governments fail to enforce rules.
 
New York City contact tracers start, reach out to 600 people
New York City contact tracers hired to contain the spread of the coronavirus are on the job. Tracers reached out to all of the roughly 600 people who tested positive for the virus citywide on Monday, the first day of the program. Also, Gov.
 
Fourth region of upstate New York cleared to slowly reopen
A fourth region of upstate New York has met the criteria to gradually restart its economic activity as the state prepares slowly relax its pandemic-induced social restrictions. Gov.
 
Eviction protection extended; push for antibody testing
Gov. Andrew Cuomo is extending New York’s moratorium on outbreak-related housing evictions. The Democrat said Thursday that a moratorium planned through June is now extended until Aug. 20.
 
New York to require face coverings in busy public places
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo said state residents will be required to wear face coverings when they are out and coming in close contact with other people.
 
Stay home rules extended in NY amid glimmer of hope
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo says he is extending stay-at-home restrictions through the end of the month and increasing fines on violators to up to $1,000.
 
New York gets green light to test for COVID-19 virus
Gov. Andrew Cuomo says New York has received approval to conduct its own tests for the COVID-19 virus. The move is aimed at providing quicker turnarounds for results.
 
Transgender boy sues NY state over sex on birth certificate
A transgender teen unable to change the sex listed on his New York birth certificate is suing the state.
 
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