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Micron, one of the world's largest microchip manufacturers, announced Tuesday it would open a semiconductor plant in upstate New York, promising an investment of up to $100 billion over two decades and a plant that could bring 50,000 jobs to the state. -
Voting opened Wednesday on which toys should go into the National Toy Hall of Fame this year. The class of 2022 finalists are: bingo, Breyer Horses, Catan, Lite-Brite, Nerf Toys, Masters of the Universe, piñata, Phase 10, Pound Puppies, Rack-O, Spirograph, and the top.
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Gov. Kathy Hochul said Friday that the state was stepping up its polio-fighting efforts as the virus that causes the life-threatening disease was detected in the wastewater of yet another county in the New York City area.
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Matt Araiza, the “Punt God” who led San Diego State to a record-setting season before being drafted by the Buffalo Bills, and two of his former Aztecs teammates were accused in a civil lawsuit Thursday of gang-raping a teenager at an off-campus party last fall.
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Early, in-person voting began Saturday in New York’s congressional party primaries, which will set the final field for a slew of competitive contests in the general election this autumn.
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U.S. Rep. Lee Zeldin, the Republican candidate for New York governor, was attacked by a man with a pointed weapon at an event Thursday night in Perinton but was uninjured, his campaign said.
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The white gunman accused of targeting and killing 10 Black people and injuring three other individuals at the Tops Market on Jefferson Ave. was indicted by a federal grand jury on Thursday. Read the full indictment here outlining multiple hate crime and firearm charges
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Gov. Kathy Hochul announced early Friday that the special session of the Legislature originally focused on gun laws will also take up the abortion rights issue.
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State officials denied required air permit renewals Thursday to a bitcoin-mining power plant in the Finger Lakes that environmentalists called a threat to New York’s climate goals.
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The Supreme Court has ended constitutional protections for abortion that had been in place nearly 50 years in a decision by its conservative majority to overturn Roe v. Wade. Friday's outcome is expected to lead to abortion bans in roughly half the states.
