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NY protocols backed for videotaping interrogations[1]
New York prosecutors, police and lawyers are endorsing the videotaping of suspect interrogations, now a common practice in many counties and considered a safeguard against both false confessions and defendant allegations of coercion.
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Battling winter gets creative: Herkimer using molasses, state beet juice[2]
The village of Herkimer Public Works Department will add a sticky substance generally associated with baked beans and ginger cookies to its operations this winter.
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Mother bear, cub electrocuted by downed power lines[3]
The state Department of Environmental Conservation says a mother bear and one of her two cubs died after they tried to pass under live power lines that had been knocked down by a tree felled by wind.
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Carrier Dome Helps Metrodome[4]
The crew at the Carrier Dome is helping another Dome over 1,000 miles away.
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News: Surprise! New study confirms drinking hurts college grades[5]
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Hydrofracking foes, supporters both praising NY Gov. David Paterson after veto[6]
Gov. David Paterson managed an unlikely feat this weekend, receiving praise from both environmentalists and energy companies on the bitterly divisive issue of natural gas drilling.
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AP: US report adds details on Cold War Nazi intel[7]
Newly released records reveal details on how U.S. intelligence officials used and protected some Nazi Gestapo agents after World War II,
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Sales tax revenues surge in CNY[8]
It looks like it’s going to be a happy holiday for counties in the area, as they are looking at far more sales tax dollars than expected.
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Paterson looks at legacy[9]
David A. Paterson was at the right place at the wrong time.
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NY protocols backed for videotaping interrogations[10]
New York prosecutors, police and lawyers are endorsing the videotaping of suspect interrogations.
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891 on layoff list, not all to go[11]
Unions representing state employees blasted the cuts, with CSEA President Danny Donohue saying they were done out of “political spite,”
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State says newly elected U.S. Rep. Ann Marie Buerkle hasn’t paid her taxes[12]
The IRS dropped its claim early this year, but now Albany says she owes New York $7,036.
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Paterson orders hydrofracking moratorium[13]
New York Gov. David Paterson has issued an executive order prohibiting the hydraulic fracturing process of drilling for natural gas until at least July 1.
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Indian tax-free smokes OK’d until spring[14]
The Cayuga and Seneca Indian Nations can continue selling tax-free cigarettes at least until March or so.
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Local governments struggling to win the waste battle[15]
Due to a combination of market pressures, geography and disjointed government, Auburn and the towns and villages of Cayuga County are effectively putting thousands of dollars out to the curb
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A Virginia collector donated to the Library of Congress the largest trove of Civil War-era photographs depicting average soldiers that the institution has received in at least 50 years, according to the Washington Post.