Mount Pleasant, NY
News
NY AG To Sue Trump Administration Over Citizenship Census Question NY AG To Sue Trump Administration Over Citizenship Census Question
NY AG To Sue Trump Administration Over Citizenship Census Question New York State Attorney General Eric Schneiderman is leading a multi-state coalition of elected officials who are intending to challenge President Donald Trump and the federal government’s decision to bring back a question asking about citizen status in the 2020 United States Census. On Monday night, the Commerce Department announced it would indeed reintroduce the question, which had been asked until 1960. The lawsuit was filed by Attorneys General in New York, Connecticut, Delaware, the District of Columbia, Hawaii, Illinois, Iowa, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Minnesota, New Jersey, New…

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by Zak Failla
Mount Pleasant, NY
News
Cuomo Issues Advisory On New Storm, Update On Nor'easter Recovery Cuomo Issues Advisory On New Storm, Update On Nor'easter Recovery
Cuomo Issues Advisory On New Storm, Update On Nor'easter Recovery Gov.. Andrew Cuomo on Tuesday, March 6 updated New Yorkers on the status of storm recovery operations in the Hudson Valley as a second winter storm is being forecasted to impact New York. Last week's storm caused extensive damage to electric utility infrastructure, including hundreds of broken utility poles and damage in remote, hard-to-reach locations. This has made the completion of restoration efforts extremely challenging, especially in the face of a second storm, however power outages have continued to steadily decrease. Cuomo of New Castle said utilities have restored more than 270,000…

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by Jon Craig
Stratford, CT
Police & Fire
Stratford Police Investigate False Report After Woman Found Duct-Taped Stratford Police Investigate False Report After Woman Found Duct-Taped
Stratford Police Investigate False Report After Woman Found Duct-Taped STRATFORD, Conn. — A woman found bound with duct tape in a Stratford motel Wednesday had not been abducted from Iowa as she had claimed, police said Friday. On Wednesday, Stratford police responded to the Honeyspot Motor Inn on a call of a possible abduction. Officers found a woman bound with duct tape in one of the motel rooms and learned she had been reported missing in Iowa on New Year’s Eve, police said. But during the investigation, officers learned that she had left Iowa voluntarily and made a false claim that she was held against her will, police said. The investigation is ongoing,…

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by Meredith Guinness