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The State University of New York’s Orange Newburgh campus was partially evacuated Wednesday as authorities investigated a suspicious device discovered in a garage, authorities say.

Dr. Samuel Stanley Jr., a medical researcher who has led Stony Brook University in New York for nearly a decade, was named Tuesday as the next president of Michigan State University in the wake of the most extensive sexual abuse scandal in sports history. Stanley was chosen in an 8-0 vote by the school’s board of trustees, effective Aug. 1....

New York state agencies paid out $787 million in overtime for more than 18 million extra hours worked by state employees in 2018.

The recent revelation that National Rifle Association representatives had met with Australian politicians to discuss talking points after a mass shooting generated outrage from various politicians. The reality is that the NRA has been exerting its influence on gun debates outside the U.S. for a number of years, exporting its firebrand rhetoric and belief that more guns will lead to...

Officials at the State University of New York at New Paltz have picked new names for campus buildings that were named for slave-owning families. The college said they selected new names Wednesday for six buildings based on a survey that drew responses from more than 3,000 students.  For more than a year, the school has been considering renaming the buildings…

The former head of the State University of New York’s Polytechnic Institute was sentenced Tuesday to 3½ years in prison for his role in corrupting the state’s Buffalo Billion project.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo is making his fifth visit to Puerto Rico following last year’s devastating hurricanes.

A federal jury in New York convicted key players Thursday on charges related to Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s “Buffalo Billion” economic redevelopment program, leaving some lawyers grumbling that it’s a bad time to face corruption charges.

March 14 marks one month since 17 people were gunned down at a Florida high school, a shooting that has sparked outrage across the country and cries for more strict gun control.

A newly-released list reveals New York’s highest-paid state employees of 2017. A college dean is the highest paid employee on the state payroll — raking in over $700,000 last year. According to Empire Center, 3,568 state government employees were paid more than Gov. Andrew Cuomo. Cuomo had a salary totaling $178,509.

State University of New York officials have revoked an honorary award given to television host Charlie Rose over sexual harassment allegations.

The gun industry is holding its biggest annual trade show this week just a few miles from the site where a gunman slaughtered 58 concertgoers outside his high-rise Las Vegas hotel room in October using a display case worth of weapons, many fitted with bump stocks that enabled them to mimic fully automatic fire. Gun control advocates, meanwhile, pointed to...

Underground fraternities like the one where a freshman was found unconscious before dying from a combination of drugs and alcohol have been a longtime problem for the upstate New York college town, police said Tuesday.

A Long Island college student died after being found slumped over at a house party off of a State University of New York campus with a fatally toxic mix of drugs and alcohol in his bloodstream over the weekend, according to a published report.

A 56-year-old woman was found dead with a gunshot wound to the chest and a 62-year-old man discovered barely alive with an apparent self-inflicted shot to the head in lower Manhattan early Wednesday, authorities say.

A knife-wielding man released from Rikers four days ago was shot by police in the hallway of a Queens apartment building Tuesday after allegedly stabbing his sister repeatedly, leaving her bloodied outside, authorities say.

Twenty-one students at a New York college have been charged with hazing fraternity pledges by making them drink alcohol, forcing them to eat food off the floor, and vomiting and urinating on them.

An emotionally disturbed woman who somehow scared riders on a B train near Central Park West sparked a panic at the height of Wednesday’s morning rush, with straphangers tweeting about “mass evacuations” and “people stampeding,” according to a senior law enforcement official familiar with the investigation.