ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — New York’s governor signed an executive order Wednesday recognizing Juneteenth as a paid holiday for state employees to commemorate the emancipation of slaves in the U.S.
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo said he will sign an executive order Wednesday to make Juneteenth a holiday for New York State employees, and will propose legislation to commemorate the day as an official state holiday next year.
It's absolutely bizarre that two of the people allegedly responsible for torching a police vehicle during the New York City riots were lawyers. They're going to need their knowledge of the law now. According to the Department of Justice, they are
The State Senate passed the bill on Tuesday with a majority of 40-22 and Governor Cuomo says he will sign it into law this week. All the Republicans in the Senate voted against it.
Vincent D'Andraia is the NYPD officer who was recorded pushing activist Dounya Zayer to the ground during a protest against police brutality in Brooklyn, New York.
A Buffalo police officer was caught on video shoving a man to the ground, causing him to bang his head on the sidewalk and start bleeding from the back of skull, according to the local public radio station. The video shows the man, wearing a face mask, wa
At least two law enforcement officers in Buffalo, New York, were injured Monday evening when a vehicle drove into a crowd of dozens of police officers and state troopers.
Chris Summers has a pending unemployment claim, but $600 was deposited into his account by the unemployment office. He just wants to know if that money is really is.
New York has to borrow money from the federal government to pay its state unemployment benefits after more than a million newly jobless residents filed claims amid the coronavirus pandemic, Gov. Andrew Cuomo said Monday.
New York City may have had nearly 2 million cases of COVID-19, according to an antibody study that revealed that 21% of tested NYC residents has had the virus, according to the New York Times . The information comes from testing done on 1,300 supermarket
To continue to control the spread of the virus, Cuomo said he is extending New York's PAUSE order to keep non-essential businesses and schools closed through May 15.
The state of New York has teamed up with Google to build an online portal for unemployment applications that's much more reliable than the Department of Labor's old one.