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Main Category: Litigation / Medical Malpractice Also Included In: Women's Health / Gynecology Article Date: 01 Jul 2009 The Supreme Court's 5-4 reversal of a decision endorsed by a three-judge appellate panel that included Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor is attracting criticism from the judge's conservative opponents but is not expected to ...

Sen. Charles Schumer, D-N.Y., has called on the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission to grant no more extensions to NYRI, a group of investors who want to build an electrical transmission line from Oneida to Orange counties.

Ed Spaeth was researching his family tree when he discovered an 18th-century ancestor likely was buried in the woods just down the hill from his Hudson Valley home.

Last week's Senate Judiciary Committee hearings on the proposed federal hate crimes bill showed the dark underbelly of the Senate.

Credit card companies are raising interest rates and fees seven months before new rules go into effect that will limit their ability do so, much to the irritation of Congress and consumer advocates.

The New York Power Authority agreed on Tuesday to sell low-cost power to Yahoo Inc to build a data canter and to Sunworks Solar LLC to build a solar panel manufacturing plant.

CORNING - Calling for less taxation and the elimination of deficit spending, Corning Mayor Thomas W. Reed II announced Wednesday that he wants to represent the 29th Congressional District.

It's official. Yahoo! Inc. is coming to Western New York. Lockport beat out other sites around the national to become the new home of a data center for the internet search engine company.

Suman Raghunathan, Feet in 2 Worlds Finally, the much-expected meeting on immigration reform between President Barack Obama and lawmakers from both parties took place Thursday.

The Supreme Court, which has chipped away at limits on political spending in recent years, opened the door Monday to a broad challenge of the nation's campaign-finance laws.

It's official. Yahoo will build a data center in Western New York, bringing more than 125 high-tech jobs.

Senator Charles Schumer will be in central New York late today to talk about the possible effects of a Cayuga Indian Nation land trust.

The ink has barely dried on credit card reform signed by President Obama in May, and already, issuers are raising prices again.

If you were looking for a movie title to describe the looming immigration debate in Congress, it would be Invasion of the Body Snatchers .

Main Category: Health Insurance / Medical Insurance Article Date: 29 Jun 2009 - 1:00 PDT Tensions are showing as health reform continues to be center stage on the President's and Congress' domestic policy agenda.

Decades after a riot at a Greenwich Village bar sparked a movement for equal rights, gay New Yorkers celebrated their gains at Sunday's gay pride parade and lamented the state has not legalized same-sex marriage.

Yesterday's White House meeting between President Obama and a group of lawmakers is the first step toward immigration reform.

For weeks, President Obama has been under increasing pressure from civil rights groups, Latino elected officials and Democratic liberals to do something - anything - to rescue comprehensive immigration reform from political purgatory.

Even with all of the focus on health care and energy in the nation's capitol - immigration reform is still on the minds of the leadership.

Finally, the much-expected meeting on immigration reform between President Barack Obama and lawmakers from both parties took place Thursday.