NEW YORK — Gov. Kathy Hochul won’t immediately remove New York City Mayor Eric Adams from office, but will instead push for increased oversight of City Hall as he faces intense scrutiny over his bribery case and his relationship with the Trump administration. Hochul announced Thursday ...

UTICA (AP) — Six New York prison guards have been indicted for second-degree murder in the beating death of an inmate who was handcuffed, while four corrections workers were charged with lesser crimes. The beating of Robert Brooks by multiple officers at Marcy Correctional Facility in ...

New York on Thursday sued some of the country’s biggest distributors of electronic cigarettes, accusing the companies of violating state laws that prohibit the sale of vaping flavors and designs that appeal to children. Attorney General Letitia James announced the lawsuit targeting ...

MAYVILLE (AP) — The New Jersey man on trial in the 2022 stabbing of author Salman Rushdie declined to testify in his defense Thursday as his lawyers rested their case without calling any witnesses. “No, I do not,” Hadi Matar, 27, said when asked by Chautauqua County Judge David Foley ...

NEW YORK — At an extraordinary hearing Wednesday, the Justice Department’s second-in-command demanded that a judge dismiss corruption charges against New York City Mayor Eric Adams, and the leader of the nation’s largest city — his liberty and political future at stake — declared: ...

ALBANY — New York’s top court on Tuesday affirmed the constitutionality of an ethics watchdog created three years ago to stem public corruption, rejecting arguments from former Gov. Andrew Cuomo related to a $5 million book deal. The Commission on Ethics and Lobbying in Government had ...