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State & Nation
March 18, 2023
Chinese businessman arrested in $1 billion fraud conspiracy

By Larry NeumeisterAssociated Press NEW YORK (AP) - A business tycoon long sought by the government of China and known for cultivating ties to Trump administration figures including Steve Bannon was arrested Wednesday in New York on charges that he oversaw a $1 billion fraud conspiracy. Guo Wengui, 54, and his financier, Kin Ming Je, […]

March 11, 2023
Biden budget aims to cut deficits nearly $3T over 10 years

WASHINGTON (AP) - President Joe Biden’s upcoming budget proposal aims to cut deficits by nearly $3 trillion over the next decade, the White House said Wednesday. That deficit reduction goal is significantly higher than the $2 trillion that Biden had promised in his State of the Union address last month. It also is a sharp […]

March 4, 2023
States move to crack down on nurses with bogus diplomas

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) Medical licensing officials in multiple states are scrambling to stop nurses with fraudulent academic credentials from caring for patients, after three Florida schools were accused of selling thousands of bogus diplomas. New York regulators told 903 nurses in recent weeks to either surrender their licenses or prove they were properly educated. Delaware […]

February 25, 2023
No economic ‘knockout’ yet from West’s sanctions on Russia

WASHINGTON (AP) One month into the invasion of Ukraine, President Joe Biden stood in the courtyard of a grand Polish castle and laid out the punishing economic costs that the U.S. and its allies were inflicting on Vladimir Putin's Russia, declaring that the ruble is almost immediately “reduced to rubble.” Russia is now the world's […]

February 18, 2023
White supremacist gets life in prison for Buffalo massacre

BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP)  A white supremacist who killed 10 Black people at a Buffalo supermarket was sentenced to life in prison without parole Wednesday after relatives of his victims confronted him with pain and rage caused by his racist attack. Anger briefly turned physical at Payton Gendron’s sentencing when a victim’s family member rushed at […]

February 13, 2023
The spy who wasn’t? New York police officer wants badge back

GARDEN CITY, N.Y. (AP) On a September day in 2020, New York City Police Officer Baimadajie Angwang kissed his toddler goodbye and was about to drive to work when he was surrounded by rifle-toting FBI agents. You’re under arrest, the bewildered cop was told. The charge: Being a secret agent for China. Angwang, a former […]

February 5, 2023
Republican-led committee targets COVID relief aid for review

By Kevin FrekingAssociated Press WASHINGTON (AP) House Republicans on Wednesday began their promised aggressive oversight of the Biden administration, focusing on what watchdogs described as “indications of widespread fraud” in federal coronavirus aid programs initiated under President Donald Trump. GOP lawmakers complained that too little attention was paid to the problems when Democrats controlled Congress. […]

January 31, 2023
War on drugs locked him up; now he’s a cannabis entrepreneur

By Bobby Caina CalvanAssociated Press NEW YORK (AP)  When the war on marijuana came sweeping through his New York City housing project decades ago, Roland Conner found himself going in and out of jail. It’s a time he’d rather not talk about. Now, at age 50, he has opened the state’s first legal cannabis dispensary […]

January 16, 2023
Soaring US egg prices put pressure on consumers, businesses

By Josh FunkAP Business Writer OMAHA, Neb. (AP) Chickens may not be able to fly very far, but the price of eggs is soaring. A lingering bird flu outbreak, com bined with soaring feed, fuel and labor costs, has led to U.S. egg prices more than doubling over the past year, and hatched a lot of sticker shock […]

January 2, 2023
President Biden signs $1.7 trillion government funding bill into law

By Darlene SupervilleAssociated Press KINGSHILL, U.S. Virgin Islands (AP) — President Joe Biden on Thursday signed a $1.7 trillion spending bill that will keep the federal government operating through the end of the federal budget year in September 2023, and provide tens of billions of dollars in new aid to Ukraine for its fight against […]

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Siegwalt, Fay

SALEM, NH: With heartfelt sadness, we announce the passing of our beloved mother, grandmother and sister, Fay (Hyman) Siegwalt, 85, a resident of Salem, NH since 2019 and a former longtime resident of Newark, NY.  She left this world on Friday, February 3, 2023, surrounded by her loving family. Born, raised, and educated in Newark, […]

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Campbell, Melanie O. 

MARION: Entered into rest on March 12, 2023 at the age of 79. She is survived by her loving husband of 38 years, David; son, Matt (Meg) McKessy; 2 grandchildren, mother, Catherine; brother, David; many friends and family. Melanie retired from Finger Lakes Gaming & Racetrack after 40 years. There will be no prior calling […]

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