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Joseph Moran has long faced accusations of dishonesty — even from fellow officers — records show.
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In New York, many incarcerated people don’t know how to secure their freedom. A court fight could clear up the lethally opaque process.
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The state’s top court will settle disputes between Rochester, Syracuse, New York City, and their police unions next week in three cases that could reshape police discipline across the state.
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The state Division of Human Rights considers prisons, jails, and police departments exempt from human rights law.
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Prescribed burns are banned in New York’s largest tracts of forest, but some rangers say they need to torch the brush to save the trees.
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In Syracuse, the I-81 viaduct has two groups at war. One wants to tear it down, one wants to leave it up — all in the name of environmental justice.