FOX News Sunday

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — More than 160 women who are elected officials or hold other leadership posts have written to New York's top elected officials, all men, urging them to enact public campaign financing. Calling it "vital" to participation in politics by women in particular, they want Gov...

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — New York officials have formed a new task force to help farmers. Gov. Andrew Cuomo says the task force will include farmers and state officials and will be charged with improving how state agencies work with people in the agriculture industry...

GRANBY, N.Y. (AP) — State police say they've charged three Syracuse-area teenagers with second-degree murder in the slaying of a 46-year-old man inside his central New York home last month. Troopers say Monday that the teens killed Anthony Miller during a burglary at his home in the rural Oswego County town of Granby, 25 miles northwest of Syracuse...

WASHINGTON (AP) — New York Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand is telling federal officials that the Empire State needs its bees to pollinate crops. Gillibrand wrote Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack to ask him to expand the department's efforts to revive bee populations in New York and the Northeast...

HANOVER, N.Y. (AP) — A trial gets underway next week for the first person charged with violating New York's new gun-control law. Authorities say 33-year-old Benjamin Wassell of Silver Creek in western New York was accused of selling illegally modified semi-automatic rifles...

BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — Two education advocacy groups say they're gathering evidence from school districts across New York with an eye toward suing the state over school funding.

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court has turned away appeals from the National Rifle Association which complained about resistance by governments and judges to the high court's recent seminal rulings declaring that Americans have a constitutional right to own a gun...

APALACHIN, N.Y. (AP) — The State University of New York's Broome Community College is planning drug awareness programs in the wake of a professor's death from a heroin overdose. The Binghamton Press-Republican reports that 49-year-old professor Wesley Warren died around 2 a...

WASHINGTON (AP) — American agriculture has experienced a boom, with market values of crops, livestock and total agricultural products reaching record highs even as the amount of U.S. farmland declined. A new government survey says the number of U...

CORTLAND, N.Y. (AP) — SUNY Cortland has received a $1 million gift bequeathed by a lifelong teacher in central New York. The Syracuse Post-Standard says Esther King Hawthorne died in May 2013. The resident of Clay was 95. Hawthorne taught in public schools in Ithaca, Cooperstown, Lyons and North Syracuse before spending 25 years in Syracuse...