State News

San Francisco (AP) – Yahoo is buying online blogging forum Tumblr for $1.1 billion as CEO Marissa Mayer tries to rejuvenate an Internet icon that had fallen behind the times.

Washington (AP) – Senators working on a wide-ranging immigration bill have agreed to tighten controls on the asylum system that allows people fleeing war or persecution to find refuge in the U.S.

Rochester, N.Y. (AP) — Testimony is set to begin in the trial of two people charged with killing a high school teacher as she rode her bike along a suburban Rochester road last summer.

(CNN ) Aviation fans have already named it Dreamliner 2.0.

New York (AP) — New York Sen. Charles Schumer is urging airlines to reverse flight change fee increases.

Chili, N.Y. - A woman has died after crashing into a tree in Chili Sunday night.

Hartford, C.T. (AP) - Delay follows derailment that injured scores of people.

Mineola, N.Y. (AP) - Office responding to home invasion, according to authorities.

Albany, N.Y. (AP) - State labor officials say New York's unemployment rate dropped to 7.8 percent in April, the lowest since the end of the Great Recession in 2009.

U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts is due in his native upstate New York to help mark the 10th anniversary of the Robert H. Jackson Center.