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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.

SUNY’s Orange Newburgh campus was partially evacuated Wednesday after a suspicious device was found in a garage at a building. Ida Siegal reports.

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.

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…

Three people, including a woman known as the “Cryptoqueen,” are facing charges over an alleged multibillion-dollar pyramid scheme involving the sale of a fraudulent cryptocurrency known as “OneCoin,” authorities said.

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.

A bank employee and her boyfriend allegedly stole about $375,000 from the accounts of a deceased New Jersey resident, authorities say.

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.

2,000 students walked out of Brooklyn’s Edward R. Murrow High School as part of a nationwide protest marking one month since the school shooting in Parkland, Florida, that left 17 people dead. Jummy Olabanji reports.

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...

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 blood stream over the weekend, according to a published report. Erica Byfield reports.

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.

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.

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 witness was in lower Manhattan Wednesday after a woman was found dead witha gunshot wound to the chest.