FOX News Sunday

SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. (AP) — Authorities say more than a dozen horses have been rescued from a burning barn at the harness racing track in Saratoga Springs. City police officials say that one of the wooden barns at Saratoga Casino and Raceway caught fire around 6 a...

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — The New York legislature's top Democrat says there's a "whole bunch" of unresolved state budget issues as negotiators race to meet a deadline next week. Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver tells reporters at the state Capitol Friday that pre-kindergarten and other education issues still need to be agreed to...

BINGHAMTON, N.Y. (AP) — A 26-year-old upstate New York woman has pleaded guilty in federal court to sex trafficking of a child. Lynette Tilden of Utica was among nine people arrested in February 2012 in connection with sex trafficking in central New York that involved a minor...

DELMAR, N.Y. (AP) — The Niagara River corridor from Lake Erie to Lake Ontario is renowned as a winter haven for water birds. But this year's bitterly cold season has made it notable for something else: dead ducks. Biologists say carcasses began piling up by the hundreds in early January after consistently low temperatures started icing over nearly the entire Great Lakes, preventing the ducks from

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — Gov. Andrew Cuomo is encouraging people to celebrate Women's History Month by visiting historic women's rights locations around New York state. New York is home to Seneca Falls, where the country's first women's rights convention took place in 1848, and Hyde Park, where Eleanor and Franklin Roosevelt lived Cuomo says the state's Path Through History initiative organizes more th

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — The panel that will choose operators and locations for new casinos in New York is beginning its work. The New York State Gaming Commission on Wednesday officially appointed former city comptroller William Thompson, Hofstra President Stuart Rabinowitz, and veteran gubernatorial adviser Paul Francis to the Resort Gaming Facility Location Board...

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — New York officials say additional information about old traffic tickets will be available to prosecutors considering plea bargains for new driving charges. The Department of Motor Vehicles will make the information available for tickets issued during the past 10 years when the original charge was a violation bearing license points, was a drug or alcohol offense, or was for aggr

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — The state's NY-Sun initiative has awarded $28.6 million to 37 projects across the state, including 29 photovoltaic projects that will add 33.6 megawatts of solar power generation capacity. Gov. Andrew Cuomo says that under the NY-Sun initiative, a total of 299 megawatts of solar photovoltaic capacity has been installed or is under development in the past two years...

BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — With New York state about to take bids for its first non-Indian casinos, tribes looking to hold their ground have been upgrading their existing casinos and exploring new ones. The Seneca Nation already operates three casinos...

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — A new federal government report says New York state's 22 national parks drew more than 12.6 million visitors who spent $446.4 million in 2012. The report released by the National Park Service also finds that national parks in the state supported 4,885 jobs in New York two years ago...