AP Execs Furious After Justice Department Secretly Obtains Phone Records
The U.S. Department of Justice was under fire Monday, after it secretly obtained two months' worth of telephone records of reporters and editors for The Associated Press.
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The U.S. Department of Justice was under fire Monday, after it secretly obtained two months' worth of telephone records of reporters and editors for The Associated Press.
Brandon Needer is 18 years old and just graduated from high school last year, but he has decided to make a run for a seat on the Yonkers City Council.
CBS 2's Marcia Kramer discussed the rampant corruption in Albany, with more state lawmakers getting caught up in corruption probes.
Smoking will be forbidden at more New York State parks this summer.
Six mayoral candidates touted their education policies Saturday at a panel hosted by the United Federation of Teachers.
Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, who serves as the chair of the Senate Armed Services Subcommittee on Personnel, plans to address the issue next week with a newly drafted bill.
The measure sponsored by Queens councilman Daniel Dromm would allow legal non-citizen residents of New York City to vote in municipal elections. They would not be able to cast a ballot in state or federal elections.
The 74-year-old former New York State lawmaker secretly recorded other politicians in a bid for leniency after she pleaded guilty to embezzling money.
The Senate's budget committee sent to the full Senate on Thursday a bill that would ban guns of 50-caliber or more.
More than 1 million workers in New York City will now get paid sick leave. The City Council passed a bill Wednesday over the strong objections of Mayor Michael Bloomberg, who fears it could hurt small businesses.
Malcolm Smith of Queens and John Sampson of Brooklyn, two of those recorded, have already been charged with crimes including bribery and embezzlement, WCBS 880's Irene Cornell reported.
"In terms of keeping it secret, it's nobody else's business," Christie said. "If asked about it, I wouldn't have lied about it. But it's nobody else's business but mine."
While NYC's stop-and-frisk program is literally on trial in federal court and is eating up much of the air in the mayoral campaign, word has come down that when cops stopped doing it so much; those committing crimes also stopped doing it so much.
Liberal Party Chairman Jack Olchin says the party sees Catsimatidis as an "uncommon common man.''
Democrat Adam Haber proposes naming a "disaster czar" to handle a county-wide emergency management and information system that he says would give Nassau County the response it did not get after Sandy.
