Cancemi Excited About School District’s Progress, Wants Another Term as Board President

Gov. Kathy Hochul appointed Attorney General Letitia James as special prosecutor in the Cornell 7 case, which involves allegations that seven men drugged and sexually assaulted a Cornell student at the Chi Phi fraternity in October 2024. The men deny the allegations, and the accuser's sworn statement to police differs

By Tony Farina Are the same political interests that followed Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s lead more than a decade ago and banned hydraulic fracturing across New York State now doing their best to effectively…

Josh Wander's 777 Partners collapsed after a premature leak of a federal investigation, which prosecutors allegedly had no right to disclose. The piece asks whether the Justice Department's indictment ended up doing a favor for sanctioned Russian billionaire Alisher Usmanov, whose money stood behind Everton FC.

By Tony Farina I’ve covered many court proceedings and trials in my more than 35 years as a newspaper and television reporter and I want to make the point at the beginning of this story that whether elected or appointed, some judges are fair and honest and many others fall short of the mark. In other words, the word jurist does not convey skill and knowledge of the law; it is just a role that some serve with distinction, and others do not. By definition, a jurist is a person who has expert or thorough knowledge of the law but