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Small cigarette wholesalers accuse large companies of violating state tax laws

A lawsuit filed this week accuses five of the state's largest tobacco wholesalers of giving secret rebates to customers to drive down competition as part of an alleged scheme which may have violated state laws that set minimum prices on cigarettes.

 

25 vehicles involved in Cuomo Tappan Zee bridge crash

ORANGETOWN — A 25-vehicle accident Wednesday morning delayed traffic on I-87 Northbound at the Mario M. Cuomo Tappan Zee Bridge.

 

Schenectady mayor lifts state of emergency

SCHENECTADY — Mayor Gary McCarthy announced the end of the State of Emergency declared Jan. 28 of the Nott Terrace hillside on Wednesday. According to a press release, enough progress has been made at the hillside.

 

State issues alert on raw milk contaminated with listeria

HOOSICK FALLS— Breese Hollow Dairy has been prohibited from selling raw milk after the Department of Agriculture and Markets found a sample contaminated with Listeria monocytogenes on Jan. 30.

 

Humane Association offers $500 for information on dead beagle

BETHLEHEM—The New York State Humane Association is offering a $500 reward for information regarding the dead beagle-mix dog dumped on Clapper Road last week.Call Detective Ken Beck at the Bethlehem Police Department at 518-439-9973 with information. Calls will be kept confidential.

 

Schumer praises deal as "what New Yorkers need"

WASHINGTON _ Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer was jubilant over striking a budget deal with his GOP counterpart, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky. _ so enraptured that he even summoned the N.Y. media via conference call to extoll its benefits for the state.“The budget deal doesn’t have everything I wanted; it doesn’t have everything Senator McConnell wanted; but it has what New Yorkers need,” Schumer said.

 

Albany Roundtable focuses on refugees, immigrants

Jill Peckenpaugh, the director of the U.S. Committee on Refugees and Immigrants' Albany field office, will discuss how the organization is helping refugees and immigrants rebuild their lives, at the next meeting of the Albany Roundtable.

 

Albany Symphony announces new season

The Albany Symphony dropped details of its 2018-2019 season on Wednesday evening, and the tally was five world premieres, six soloists, one guest conductor and a performance of Benjamin Britten's monumental "War Requiem" with Albany Pro Music at Proctors.Also coming: a memorial concert for Heinrich Medicus, the nuclear physicist and longtime Albany Symphony benefactor who died last February and left $7 million to the orchestra's endowment.

 

Stanford professor addresses barriers to citizenship at UAlbany

ALBANY — David Laitin, professor of political science at Stanford University, presented his research on low-income immigrants' access to citizenship at University at Albany on Wednesday afternoon.In 1970, 64 percent of legal foreign-born residents were naturalized. The rate dropped to 56 percent in 2011, despite the fact that studies have shown most immigrants want to become U.S. citizens.

 

Defense assails Todd Howe as serial liar, con man

ALBANY — Defense attorneys on Wednesday began their effort to demolish the credibility of Todd Howe, a key prosecution witness in the federal corruption trial of Joe Percoco, former aide to Gov. Andrew Cuomo, and three businessmen who allegedly paid him more than $300,000 in bribes.In a Manhattan federal courtroom Wednesday, Percoco's attorney Barry Bohrer wasted no time in establishing Howe's years of lying to friends and employers, and living well beyond his ample financial means."Mr. Howe, are you an honest man?," Bohrer asked."I am today," he said.

 

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