Cuomo, legislative leaders announce deals
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) -- Gov. Andrew Cuomo says he and legislative leaders have agreed to a jobs program that would offer tax-free zones to new employers....
Feds: 2 upstate NY men tried to make X-ray weapon
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) -- Federal authorities accused two upstate New York men Wednesday of assembling a portable X-ray weapon that they intended to use to secretly sicken opponents of Israel....
Father, son acquitted in NY of sex trafficking
NEW YORK (AP) -- A judge who heard prostitutes testify that a father-and-son pimp team made them feel like family cleared the two men of sex-trafficking charges Wednesday....
FBI ends Michigan search for Hoffa's remains
OAKLAND TOWNSHIP, Mich. (AP) -- Beneath a swimming pool, under a horse farm and now a weed-grown field north of Detroit. For at least the third time in a decade, FBI agents grabbed shovels and combed through dirt and mud in the search for Jimmy Hoffa's remains or clues to the disappearance of the former Teamsters boss....
All but 2 school budgets pass in NY revote
BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) -- Nearly all New York school districts that put budgets up for new votes after first-round defeats have won approval from voters....
Cuomo creates panel to investigate NY Legislature
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) -- Gov. Andrew Cuomo says he is creating a powerful investigative committee under New York's anti-corruption Moreland Act after abandoning a legislative solution that would have included public funding of campaigns....
NY Assembly not voting on legalizing MMA
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) -- Efforts to legalize professional mixed martial arts in New York have foundered again with the state Assembly's Democratic leaders refusing to allow a vote on the measure....
Car jumps onto NYC sidewalk, hurts 8; man arrested
NEW YORK (AP) -- A car rocketing down an avenue in Manhattan's dense East Village swerved out of control, plowed down a sidewalk and smashed through a storefront flower stand Wednesday morning, injuring eight people, witnesses and officials said....
