State senator

Connecticut state Sen. Alex Kasser, the first Democrat elected by her Fairfield County district since 1930, announced Tuesday she is resigning from office. She cited her high-profile and contentious divorce, saying she’s no longer able to adequately do her job. “I just completed my third legislative session and I’ve loved my job and I’ve loved the responsibility of serving...

Georgia State Representative Park Cannon was arrested Thursday after knocking on Governor Brian Kemp’s office door to interrupt the signing of a controversial elections bill into law.

James Daly is eager to make marijuana history on Sunday, when he plans to open the doors to Arbors Wellness, beckon the lengthy line outside and legally start selling recreational pot for the first time in the Midwest. “We’ve worked very hard to be prepared,” said Daly, who owns the medical dispensary that, for now, is among just six shops...

The Metropolitan Opera announced Tuesday that Placido Domingo had agreed to withdraw from his slate of scheduled performances at the opera house following allegations of sexual harassment

A Hempstead town official was arrested Thursday in connection with an ongoing probe out of the Nassau County district attorney’s office, the I-Team has learned.

A couple was granted $93,000 after Superstorm Sandy to help rebuild their home — now the program that gave them the money is asking for it back

A World War II veteran who served as a state lawmaker in New York for four decades has died.

Organizers of a meeting to discuss an upcoming mayoral race in Georgia barred reporters from attending — unless they were African-American. The Wednesday meeting at a church in Savannah was held to try to unite the city’s black community behind a single candidate for mayor in the Nov. 5 election. Signs at the door said “Black Press Only!” White reporters...

After a handful of Suez water customers in Rockland County saw their bills mysteriously spike by hundreds of dollars one recent month, they’re still getting no answers from the utility. Micheline Desselle was among the customers who saw an incredible surge on her November water bill. The 68-year-old retired nurse lives alone, typically pays about $18 a month for water…

A New York state lawmaker who tweeted “Kill yourself!” to a woman who claimed he misused a parking placard later apologized for using “a poor choice of words.”

The deaths of two young orcas in the Pacific Northwest have galvanized Washington state to do more to protect the whales’ dwindling population, NBC News reported. First, a mother orca known as J35 carried her stillborn calf for 17 days. Then a rambunctious young killer whale known for breaching went missing and was soon declared dead. The orcas that spend...

An 83-year-old New Jersey state senator has revealed that she was groped and forcibly kissed by a visitor in her home when she was just a girl.

A New York family is fighting to pass a law that would require schools to notify parents if their child is being bullied in school.

Bullets went flying in Brooklyn, injuring a teenager and a man as well as striking the campaign office of state Sen. Jesse Hamilton, sending dozens of workers inside ducking for cover, officials say.

At the ultra-Orthodox Jewish schools Pesach Eisen attended in Brooklyn, most of the day was spent studying religious texts with classes taught in Yiddish. One class at the end of the day was spent on secular subjects including English and math, enough to be “able to go to the food stamps office and apply.”

Hawaii residents covered their faces with masks after a volcano menacing the Big Island for weeks exploded, sending a mixture of pulverized rock, glass and crystal into the air in its strongest eruption of sandlike ash in days. The Kilauea volcano exploded at its summit shortly after 4 a.m. Thursday following two weeks of volcanic activity that sent lava flows...

Many sunscreen makers could soon be forced to change their formulas or be banned from selling the lotions in Hawaii. State lawmakers passed a measure this week that would ban the sale of sunscreens containing oxybenzone and octinoxate by 2021 in an effort to protect coral reefs. Scientists have found the two substances can be toxic to coral, which are...

First-term Democratic Congressman Ruben Kihuen of Nevada, who is at the center of sexual harassment allegations, announced Saturday he won’t seek re-election. Kihuen’s announcement came a day after the House Ethics Committee opened an investigation into whether Kihuen “may have engaged in sexual harassment” with a campaign aide and a lobbyist.

Former State Sen. Wendy Davis says a fellow lawmaker inappropriately touched her when she served in the state legislature.

A billionaire hedge fund manager has apologized for an online post saying that a black New York state senator has “done more damage to people of color than anyone who has ever donned a hood” because of her support for teachers unions.