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Hochul: New York offers STAR tax relief

ALBANY — Gov. Kathy Hochul Thursday highlighted New York state’s ongoing efforts to deliver $2.3 billion in tax relief to nearly three million New Yorkers under the state’s School Tax Relief program. More than two million New Yorkers have already received their STAR tax relief, and ...

Happy 50th ‘SNL!’ Here’s a look back at the show’s first cast

NEW YORK — Live from New York! It’s 50 seasons later for “SNL.” The landmark NBC sketch comedy show “Saturday Night Live” premiered Oct. 11, 1975, with drop-dead dark humor and pratfalls, George Carlin as host and not one but two musical guests: Billy Preston and Janis ...

Hochul returns to duty hours after skin cancer removal procedure

Gov. Kathy Hochul was back to work Friday morning after undergoing a brief outpatient procedure to remove a patch of skin cancer from her nose. In a video announcement shared to social media just before 11 a.m. Friday, Hochul, wearing a skin-colored bandage over the right side of her nose, ...

Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs jailed by judge after sex trafficking indictment

NEW YORK (AP) — Sean “Diddy” Combs was headed to jail Tuesday to await trial in his federal sex trafficking case, after a magistrate ordered him to be held without bail in a case that accuses him of presiding over a sordid empire of sexual crimes. The music mogul pleaded not guilty ...