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The Democratic-controlled state Legislature has passed a measure to lower the legal blood-alcohol content threshold for hunting while intoxicated.

A county in New York City's northern suburbs declared a state of emergency Tuesday over a measles outbreak that has infected more than 150 people since last fall, hoping a ban against unvaccinated children in public places wakes their parents to the seriousness of the problem.

A county in New York City's northern suburbs is banning unvaccinated minors from public places to fight a measles outbreak.

A federal judge, citing an "unprecedented measles outbreak" in suburban Rockland County, New York, has denied a request to let 44 unvaccinated children return to school.

A funeral will be held Thursday for a pregnant mother of six who police say was killed when a driver hit her family outside a convenience store after words were exchanged about his smoking.

The 32-year-old mother who was killed when an enraged driver plowed into a family of six young children outside a 7-Eleven store in Rockland County is being called a hero.

Police say a 41-year-old New Jersey man has died after a workplace accident with a mixing machine at an upstate New York cheese company.

Smoking is now banned inside cars with kids in a western New York county, adding to similar prohibitions in a couple of other places in the state.

Police have arrested a man in Pennsylvania who they say fatally shot the owner of a car dealership in suburban New York.

Six New York hospitals have agreed to repay sexual assault victims who were illegally charged as much as $3,000 for rape examinations that should've been billed to the state or their insurers, Attorney General Barbara Underwood said Thursday.