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This has become a rising issue with sports teams on a national level, now New York State is stepping in and making schools change on a local level.

State investigators have found child labor law violations involving 12 minors working at a cosmetics packaging shop run by a New York religious community and are expanding their probe to eight other sites affiliated with the group, officials said Tuesday.

Video purporting to show a 6-year-old old boy picking potatoes at a farm run by a religious community and other children working at the group's high-end cosmetics factory has prompted an investigation by New York state labor officials.

A New York school is the proud owner of a floating classroom.

Local officials are pleased that an upstate New York railroad has decided to raise a bridge that has been jamming up trucks not able to clear the bridge.

Police are investigating the discovery of a Nazi-themed flag in a storage building at a New York school.

CAMBRIDGE, N.Y. (AP) — State officials say contamination from cancer-causing industrial chemicals has been found at an upstate New York business that uses paper mill sludge to produce composting material.

BOSTON (AP) — The prosecution and the defense will likely paint starkly different pictures in the criminal trial of a friend of Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev.