Michael Hill

Hamilton, New York

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)

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 York

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)

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

By Michael Hill and The Associated Press

John Stephens

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

Connecticut

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 shelters

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

Orsted

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 Manhattan

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 Hudson

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)

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 coyote

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)

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)

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)

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