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  • Hamilton, New YorkLaw

    Miles ‘Burt’ Marshall, 73-year-old upstate New Yorker, indicted for alleged $95 million Ponzi scheme

    By Michael Hill and The Associated Press
  • Officers at the Auburn Correctional Facility continue to hold the line on the third day of their strike to protest unsafe working conditions in Auburn, N.Y., on Thursday, Feb. 20, 2025. (Kevin Rivoli/The Citizen via AP)Success

    National Guard helps run New York prisons as state fires 2,000 guards for refusing to return to work after ‘illegal’ 22-day strike

    By Michael Hill and The Associated Press
  • Leaders stand together for a picture at an event at the Albany NanoTech Complex in New YorkTech

    New York slated to become the national epicenter for semiconductor research with the most advanced chip-making machinery in the world

    By Michael Hill and The Associated Press
  • FILE – Sen. Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., talks after a policy luncheon on Capitol Hill, Sept. 24, 2024, in Washington. (AP Photo/Mariam Zuhaib, File)Tech

    New York semiconductor research site picked for $825 million in CHIPS act funding

    By Michael Hill and The Associated Press
  • John StephensRetail

    Remington leaves the upstate New York village where it made guns for 200 years after a PE takeover and 2 bankruptcies

    By Michael Hill and The Associated Press
  • ConnecticutRetail

    Absurd federal laws leave New York with too much weed and too few stores, Connecticut retailers with cannabis shortage

    By Pat Eaton-Robb, Michael Hill, and others
  • Animal sheltersSuccess

    Animal shelters overflow as Americans dump ‘pandemic puppies’ in droves. They’re too broke to keep their dogs

    By Michael Hill and The Associated Press
  • OrstedEnvironment

    America’s wind execs on Biden’s scrapped offshore dreams: ‘We probably still need to go through the same learning curve that Europe did’

    By Jennifer McDermott, Matthew Daly, and others
  • Long shot of a swimmer in lower ManhattanEnvironment

    Why a 53-year-old Englishman spent a month swimming from upstate New York to the tip of Manhattan

    By Michael Hill, Ted Shaffrey, and others
  • Paul HudsonSuccess

    Excitement turns to mud at West Point as nearly 200-year-old time capsule is opened to reveal just a bunch of dust

    By Michael Hill and The Associated Press
  • Payton Gendron (C) is escorted back into the courtroom by deputies after a disruption during sentencing in Buffalo, New York State, the United States, on Feb. 15, 2023. The 19-year-old man Payton Gendron, who committed the mass shooting last May in Buffalo of the U.S. state of New York, was sentenced to life in prison without parole on Wednesday as expected while white supremacy got bashed at court. (Derek Gee/Buffalo News/Pool via Xinhua)Tech

    YouTube and Reddit are sued for allegedly enabling the racist mass shooting in Buffalo that left 10 dead

    By Michael Hill and The Associated Press
  • Upstate New York coyoteEnvironment

    New York’s ‘imaginary divide’ exposed by proposed ban on cash-prize hunting contests: ‘These are people that are upstate’

    By Michael Hill and The Associated Press
  • Seth Jacobs talks about his 500 pounds of marijuana he grew on his Slack Hollow farm in Argyle, N.Y., Friday, May 12, 2023. Jacobs is one of hundreds of small farmers growing New York’s first legal adult marijuana crop and is having trouble moving product because there’s only a dozen licensed dispensaries statewide to sell to. (AP Photo/Hans Pennink)Finance

    Pot farmers are going broke growing for a New York legal weed market that’s not taking off: ‘We’re all losing money’

    By Michael Hill and The Associated Press
  • A plot of land that is being developed into multifamily housing, left, is seen in East Northport, N.Y., Thursday, March 16, 2023. Some elected officials from Long Island claim their suburban way of life is threatened by New York Gov. Kathy Hochul’s plan to spur more housing construction. They claim it would swamp the area with new apartment buildings and turn it into a “sixth borough” of the city. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)Politics

    The governor of New York wants to build 800,000 new homes and it’s kicking off a NIMBY war in the suburbs: ‘I knew it would not be easy’

    By Michael Hill and The Associated Press
  • FILE — US Attorney Markenzy Lapointe speaks about a network of nursing school operators, centered in South Florida, who allowed students to buy diplomas without the proper training, during a press conference in Miami, Jan. 25, 2023. A federal investigation into Florida nursing schools accused of selling thousands of bogus nursing diplomas has sent state licensing officials around the country scrambling to stop nurses with the fraudulent documents from caring for patients. (D.A. Varela/Miami Herald via AP, File)Success

    States are cracking down on fake nurses after a federal investigation uncovered schools selling thousands of bogus diplomas

    By Michael Hill and The Associated Press