U.S. Sen. Chuck Schumer says a semiconductor research facility in upstate New York will be getting $825 million in funding as one of three national technology centers.

Former President Bill Clinton is urging voters in rural Georgia to get behind Kamala Harris' campaign for the office he once held.

A New York judge says he won’t force state election officials to tell voters that a proposed antidiscrimination amendment to the state’s constitution would protect abortion rights.

A proposed amendment to New York's constitution meant to protect abortion access is a crucial part of Democrats' plans to drive voter turnout in the state this fall and potentially flip vital congressional districts.

New York Gov. Kathy Hochul says she is considering a ban on face masks in the New York City subway system, following what she described as concerns over people shielding their identities while committing antisemitic acts.

New York's high court has upheld a rule requiring companies with health insurance plans to cover medically necessary abortions.

New York lawmakers have approved a $237 billion state budget that includes plans to spur housing construction, combat unlicensed marijuana stores and address the migrant crisis.

New York Gov. Kathy Hochul has announced the framework of a $237 billion budget that includes broad plans to drive new housing construction, address the influx of migrants and crack down on illegal marijuana shops.

In elementary school, Caitlin Clark wrote down her dreams and goals that included playing in the WNBA one day.

Caitlin Clark and Angel Reese have both decided to forgo their final year of college eligibility and enter the WNBA Draft.

Dawn Staley did a masterful job guiding a young South Carolina team back to the Final Four undefeated for the second straight season.

A little-known and rarely enforced law that makes cheating on your spouse a crime in the state of New York could soon be a thing of the past.

The average price paid for a ticket on the resale market this week was twice as high for the NCAA women’s Final Four compared with that for the men’s semifinals.

Caitlin Clark can claim another record — the most-watched women’s college basketball game in history.

After the Boston Celtics beat the Charlotte Hornets on Monday night, the focus of the NBA’s best team quickly turned to something else: watching Caitlin Clark and the final minutes of Iowa’s victory over LSU in the Elite Eight of the women’s NCAA Tournament.

Iowa’s Caitlin Clark tied a women’s NCAA Tournament record hitting by nine 3-pointers, many from well beyond the arc, in Iowa’s Elite Eight win over LSU.

Caitlin Clark and Angel Reese have been catalysts for the rapid rise of women’s college basketball because of their play on the court that has drawn millions of new fans to the sport and their success off of it.

Mackenzie Holmes’ stellar career at Indiana is over after a loss to top-seeded South Carolina in the Sweet 16.

Notre Dame star freshman Hannah Hidalgo was forced to remove her nose piercing and miss time in her team’s 70-65 loss to Oregon State in the Sweet 16.

Caitlin Clark has been invited to the USA Basketball national team training camp during the Final Four in Cleveland, contingent on Iowa’s season being over.

The coaching job Will Brown has done in his first year at The College of Saint Rose is impressive.

New York Gov. Kathy Hochul has approved a Democrat-drawn congressional map that gives the party a modest boost in a few battleground districts.

Democrats in charge of New York’s Legislature proposed new lines for congressional districts in the key battleground state hours after rejecting boundaries created by a bipartisan redistricting commission.

Iowa star Caitlin Clark is taking her scoring records to March Madness.

New York will expand its legal definition of rape to include various forms of nonconsensual sexual contact, under a bill signed into law by Democratic Gov. Kathy Hochul.

The northeast is preparing for a weekend winter storm that threatens to dump a messy mix of snow, rain and ice.

New York’s minimum-wage workers have more than just the new year to celebrate.

New York’s highest court has ordered the state to draw new congressional districts ahead of the 2024 elections.

New York Democrats say the state will spend $1 billion to expand research into chip technology in an effort to turn upstate New York into a global center of semiconductor research and manufacturing.

A man arrested for firing gunshots outside a Jewish temple in upstate New York been federally charged.

Officials say a man fired a shotgun twice outside a Jewish temple in upstate New York, then said “Free Palestine” as he was taken into custody.

New York is requiring state health officials to develop an outreach program to educate the public on the harmful impacts of medically unnecessary treatments performed on young children born intersex.

New York Gov. Kathy Hochul is supporting the city’s effort to suspend a unique legal agreement that requires it to provide emergency housing to homeless people, as a large influx of migrants overwhelms the city’s shelter system.

A federal judge recently ordered the release of three of the “Newburgh Four,” who were arrested in 2009 in a fictitious plot to destroy military planes and New York synagogues.

A pod of almost 100 whales that beached on the southwest Australian coast have been euthanized after a second day of frantic, but unsuccessful efforts to rescue them.

Volunteers are working frantically on a second day to save dozens of pilot whales that have stranded themselves on a beach in Western Australia, but more than 50 have already died.

New York would create a commission to consider reparations to address the lingering, negative effects of slavery under a bill passed by the state Legislature.

New Yorkers next year won’t have to go through their doctors to get prescription contraceptives under a bill that Democratic Gov. Kathy Hochul has signed into law.

States that are trying to position themselves as safe havens for women seeking abortions could be most affected by the latest court ruling restricting access to an abortion pill.

A Minnesota husband is taking a 3,500-mile stretch from Key West to his home in Albany, Minnesota to help find a cure for breast cancer after his wife was diagnosed with the disease. The catch? He’s doing it on a bike.

The new era for the Jacksonville Sharks begins on Saturday night.

Just years after labor activists persuaded a handful of states to raise their minimum wage to $15 per hour, workers initially thrilled with the pay bump are finding their hard-won gains erased by inflation.

Rick Pitino insists he doesn’t know his next move.

Bruce Springsteen's show Tuesday in Albany, New York, has become the third concert in a week postponed by the New Jersey rocker for illness reasons, a month into his first major tour in six years."

Just in time for the New Year, New York lawmakers will be the highest paid state legislators in the nation under a bill signed Saturday.

Just in time for Christmas, New York legislators passed a bill in both houses on Thursday that will make them the best-paid state lawmakers in the nation.

Amazon workers in upstate New York overwhelmingly rejected a union bid on Tuesday, handing a second defeat to the labor group that’s been attempting to drag the company to the negotiating table since its historic win earlier this year.

The man who shot and killed John Lennon outside his Manhattan apartment building in 1980 has been denied parole for a 12th time.

New York state health officials have issued a more urgent call for unvaccinated children and adults to get inoculated against polio, citing new evidence of possible “community spread” of the virus.

New York’s legislature has approved a sweeping overhaul of the state’s handgun licensing rules, seeking to preserve some limits after the Supreme Court said people have a right to carry a handgun for personal protection.

New York lawmakers began a special legislative session seeking to limit the proliferation of firearms in public after the Supreme Court gutted the state’s century-old handgun licensing law.

New York’s legislature has voted to ban banning anyone under age 21 from buying or possessing a semi-automatic rifle.

New York health officials are investigating a potential case of monkeypox after a patient tested positive for the family of viruses associated with the rare illness.

A panel of five mid-level New York appellate judges have ruled that state Democrats engaged in gerrymandering when drawing new congressional district boundaries for the next decade.

A New York sheriff is defending his decision to file a criminal complaint against former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo without consulting prosecutors or the woman who says Cuomo groped her late last year.

Georgia’s governor is calling up as many as another 1,500 National Guard soldiers to help with COVID-19 response.

Kathy Hochul has become the first female governor of New York.

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo's lawyer has again attacked the accuracy of the report that led to his resignation.

Georgia's seven-day average rose above 4,000 cases on Tuesday, almost 11 times higher than when cases bottomed out in late June. Statewide, 26 hospitals report they were turning away all patients or new intensive care patients.

An Associated Press investigation into firearms missing from the U.S. armed services shows at least 37 guns disappeared or were recovered in Georgia between 2010 and 2019.

An Adel police officer was struck several times Saturday morning in a shootout with a gunman -- one of two shootouts between South Georgia police and suspects in just over 24 hours.

Anyone who gets vaccinated at select state-run vaccination sites in New York next week will receive a lottery scratch ticket with prizes potentially worth millions, as the state tries to boost slowing vaccination rates.

A staffer who has accused New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo of groping her tells a newspaper he slammed a door and told her “I don’t care” when she warned someone might see what he was doing.

(AP Photo/Hans Pennink, File )ALBANY, N.Y. – A woman who currently works in the office of New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo says he looked down her shirt and made suggestive remarks to her and another aide, according to a newspaper report published Friday. Alyssa McGrath told The New York Times that Cuomo called her beautiful in Italian, referred to her and her female colleague as “mingle mamas,” asked why she wasn’t wearing a wedding ring and inquired about her divorce. “I put my head down waiting for him to start speaking, and he didn’t start speaking,” she told The Times. AdBennett and several other women who have accused Cuomo of harassment have already been interviewed by attorneys working for Attorney General Letitia James.

ALBANY, Ga. – A South Georgia brewery is among those affected by a cyberattack that is disrupting beer-making and shipments at the Molson Coors Beverage Co.Employees tell WALB-TV they were all sent home and told not to use any work-related internet sites until further notice. “The company is working around the clock to get its systems back up as quickly as possible,” Molson Coors said in its filing. Molson Coors wouldn’t say how many facilities were impacted. The company operates seven breweries and packaging plants in the U.S., three in Canada and 10 in Europe. AdThe company has nearly 600 employees at its Albany brewery.

FILE In this Jan. 28, 2019 file photo, Assemblywoman Yuh-Line Niou, D-Manhattan, speaks in the Assembly Chamber at the state Capitol, in Albany, N.Y. Gov. Andrew Cuomos response to accusations that he sexually harassed women on the job is being viewed as a tone-deaf faux-pology by critics and victim's advocates. Cuomo said in a statement that he only meant to joke with staff to add levity to their serious work. Yuh-Line Niou calls sexual harassment at the statehouse rampant. __This story has been updated to correct the age of Yuh-Line Niou.

Now, the south Georgia city is home to one of four state-supported mass vaccination sites. He thinks this is part of why Albany was chosen as one of the initial mass vaccination sites. Vaccinating GeorgiaAlbany’s mass vaccination site is located in a large gravel lot at the Albany Georgia Forestry Commission, 1150 West Oakridge Drive. The state is expected to open additional mass vaccination sites in the coming weeks and months, Gov. The registration process for the mass vaccination sites is primarily handled through myvaccinegeorgia.com.

ALBANY, Ga. – A southeast Georgia city has fired its police chief after three former police employees sued, alleging he repeatedly sexually assaulted and harassed them. The city of Jesup made the announcement Thursday after officials announced earlier this month that it was beginning the process to fire Mike Lane, who had been chief since 2018. Three women sued in federal court in Brunswick on Feb. 1, alleging Lane subjected them to “repeated lewd, sexual comments and unwanted physical touchings,’' making their jobs so intolerable that they resigned. The women allege the city and City Manager Mike Deal ignored harassment complaints and changed rules to keep Lane on the job. The Georgia Bureau of Investigation is also examining Lane’s behavior.

ATLANTA – Officials say they have criminally charged eight Albany-area gang members in connection with prostituting a 16-year-old girl for two months in 2019. The Georgia Bureau of Investigation says gang members sought men to engage in sex with the girl on a website, claiming she was an adult. Before, agents say members of the Inglewood Family Gang — an offshoot of the Bloods — prostituted the girl in hotels, vehicles and residences, taking money for themselves. In this case, evidence of a child sex trafficking ring came to light. https://t.co/0GnD8r2b95 pic.twitter.com/jKi0dxRKGG — GA Bureau of Investigation (@GBI_GA) November 24, 2020Charges include aggravated sodomy, sexual trafficking, violating Georgia’s anti-gang law and violating the state’s racketeer influenced and corrupt organization law.

Andrew Cuomo is set to soon receive an International Emmy award for his once-daily televised briefings on the coronavirus pandemic that killed tens of thousands of New Yorkers this spring. International Academy President & CEO Bruce L. Paisner said Cuomo is being honored with the academy's Founders Award for using his briefings to inform and calm the public. "The governor’s 111 daily briefings worked so well because he effectively created television shows, with characters, plot lines, and stories of success and failure,” he said. And at least 6,600 residents have died in nursing homes, according to state data, which doesn't state how many nursing home residents died in hospitals. Still, the state's daily average of COVID-19 cases over the past seven days has more than doubled in two weeks as cases surge nationwide.

The painting, discovered in an upstate New York museum, was part of a cache of art seized by the Nazis from the Mosse family in Berlin in 1933. (AP Photo/Michael Hill)ALBANY, N.Y. – A painting of two young, 19th-century skaters that was looted by Nazis from a Jewish family in 1933 and recently discovered at a small museum in upstate New York was returned Thursday after 87 years. “The Mosse family lost nearly everything because they were Jews. Hoffmann heads the Mosse Art Research Initiative, a university-based collaboration involving Mosse heirs and German public cultural institutions. Federal authorities were contacted as Mosse Art Restitution Project manager J. Eric Bartko was working to get the painting returned from the museum.

The Democrat also threatened to take away state funding from schools in coronavirus hot spots that are ignoring orders to shut their doors, saying their defiance was endangering public health. Cuomo called the concert, attended by more than 2,150 people “an egregious violation” of the rules. Cuomo said the letter would go to New York City, Orange County, Rockland County, the Town of Ramapo and the Village of Spring Valley. Cuomo didn't immediately say exactly how much money could would be withheld or name schools that were breaking the rules. “I guarantee if a yeshiva gets closed down and they’re not going to get state funding, you’re going to see compliance,” Cuomo said.

The Democrat's book, “American Crisis: Leadership Lessons from the COVID-19 Pandemic,” delivers a retelling of his efforts to contain the virus as it ravaged his state in spring. In it, Cuomo describes trying to placate President Donald Trump in order to get needed hospital beds, ventilators and other supplies for New York. Other problems with New York’s virus response get less ink, including the state’s struggles to help nursing homes acquire enough protective gear or staff. Cuomo hasn't disclosed how much he was paid to write the book, which was published by Crown. Citing a spike in new infections, Cuomo last week reinstated restrictions on businesses, schools and religious gatherings in certain virus hot spots.

ALBANY, N.Y. – A federal judge refused Friday to block New York’s plan to temporarily limit the size of religious gatherings in COVID-19 hot spots. U.S. District Judge Judge Kiyo Matsumoto issued the ruling after an emergency hearing in a lawsuit brought by rabbis and synagogues, arguing the restrictions were unconstitutional. The restrictions apply in six designated areas in parts of New York City, Rockland and Orange counties, and part of Binghamton. In their lawsuit, rabbis, leaders of synagogues and the national Orthodox Jewish group Agudath Israel had argued that Gov. Authorities didn’t confirm there would be an arrest, saying only they were still investigating the confrontation involving Jacob Kornbluh, a reporter for Jewish Insider who has documented the handling of the coronavirus outbreak in Orthodox Jewish communities.

ALBANY, N.Y. – Michael Caputo, who is on a 60-day leave from his role as spokesperson for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services after accusing government scientists of sedition, has metastatic cancer, a state lawmaker said Thursday. Doctors have diagnosed cancer in the head and neck, David DiPietro, a Republican state assemblyman in western New York who said he was acting as a spokesperson for Caputo, told reporters. Caputo is now home in western New York with his family, the lawmaker said. The Department of Health and Human Services had announced Sept. 16 that Caputo decided to take 60 days “to focus on his health and the well-being of his family." The loyalist of President Donald Trump was installed as assistant secretary for public affairs by the White House in April at a time of tense relations with Health Secretary Alex Azar.

ALBANY, N.Y. The man who gunned down John Lennon outside his Manhattan apartment in 1980 was denied parole for an 11th time, state corrections officials said Wednesday. Mark David Chapman was denied after being interviewed by a parole board Aug. 19, according to corrections officials. Chapman shot and killed the former Beatle on the night of Dec. 8, 1980, hours after Lennon autographed an album for him. I was too far in, Chapman told a parole board in 2018. Look at this, he signed it, just go home. But there was no way I was just going to go home.Chapman's next parole hearing is scheduled for August 2022.

Its an insult to every business in this community that has been struggling," said Picente, a Republican. Any day after is frustrating.As New York tries to get its economy going again, Gov. Andrew Cuomo, a Democrat, has divided the state into 10 regions that can start to reopen businesses in phases. The governors executive orders leave it up to his administration to decide when a region has met the states standards for lifting restrictions. Last week, Cuomo announced the hiring of two experts to analyze the data and consult on reopening decisions.

Smaller cities and rural regions in the middle of the state far from New York City, still gripped by the pandemic, are being allowed to open first, but gradually industry by industry. The first wave of businesses includes retail though only for curbside or in-store pickup along with businesses and industries like construction, manufacturing and nurseries. The five regions of New York that opened Friday cover a wide strip down the middle of the state. Excluded are New York City, Long Island and the Hudson Valley on the state's east side, and the Buffalo region to the west. A lot of manufacturing, construction and retail deemed essential has continued in New York during the restrictions.

Carl Court/Getty ImagesALBANY, New York (CNN) - A 17-year-old male was arrested Monday for allegedly posting on Facebook that he would participate in a shooting at an Albany, New York, high school, police said. The lockdown lasted about an hour, City School District of Albany Superintendent Kaweeda G. Adams said in a statement on the school district website. School district administrators and security teams worked "through Sunday night" to investigate the Facebook threat, Adams said in a statement. "The safety of the students, faculty and staff is of paramount importance to the City School District of Albany," Adams said. The 17-year-old, who police have not named publicly, attends a different school in the same district, according to Smith.

ALBANY, Ga. - An appeals judge in Georgia was found Saturday shot dead behind his Albany home, but officials do not believe it was a homicide. Nathan Deal to serve as a judge on the Court of Appeals of Georgia in August 2018. Before that, he served as a Superior Court judge in Albany for nearly 20 years. In 2002, Goss founded Georgia's first felony mental health court and substance abuse treatment program in Dougherty County. For the past decade, the Dougherty County program has been a designated learning site for mental health courts, one of only four in the nation.

ALBANY, N.Y. - New York became the first U.S. state to ban the declawing of cats Monday, joining most of Europe, several Canadian provinces and a growing list of American cities that already prohibit a procedure animal advocates call cruel and unnecessary. Andrew Cuomo, a Democrat, signed the New York ban. Declawing a cat involves slicing through bone to amputate the first segment of a cat's toes. While many vets urged lawmakers to pass the ban, the state's largest veterinary organization opposed the bill. "For a cat, declawing is both psychologically and physically harmful," said Becky Robinson, president and founder of Alley Cat Allies, a Bethesda, Maryland-based organization.

ALBANY, Ga. - Leaders of a southwest Georgia city have rejected plans to build a solar farm containing 8,000 solar panels near a residential neighborhood. WALB-TV reports residents of the Country Club Estates neighborhood in Albany were relieved after the city commission struck down the proposed project Wednesday. Jasmine Williams said the proposed 25-acre solar farm would have been located just a few steps from her home. She worried increased traffic in the area during construction would have disturbed her quiet neighborhood.Other residents had told commissioners they were concerned a solar farm would disrupt surrounding wildlife. Some suggested relocating the project to a less populated area of Albany.