Lawyers

• Preet Bharara’s Dismissal, De Blasio And Cuomo Stay Quiet

  Democrats jumped on President Donald Trump for firing Preet Bharara, the former U.S. Attorney for the S.D.N.Y., but two prominent New York Democrats refuse to say anything about the dismissal.

• Mississippi passes law that enables businesses to deny services to gay people

  The state of Mississippi has passed a law that would allow businesses to deny services to gay couples.

• New York City opens up to allow Professional Mixed Martial Arts events to take place

  New York City has cleared its way to allow professional mixed martial arts to host events in the city after years of prohibiting it.

• Critics say New York medical marijuana law is overly restrictive

  New York State rolled out on Jan 7 a new law legalizing medical marijuana. However, many argue the law is too restrictive to the point of being unworkable.

• Thousands rally in Puerto Rico for better healthcare

  Tens of thousands of Puerto Ricans, including hospital workers wearing scrubs, rallied in San Juan on Thursday to press Washington to improve healthcare benefits for the indebted U.S. territory which is in the middle of a fiscal crisis.

• Prison employee who aided New York escapees pleads guilty

  A female prison employee pleaded guilty to one felony and one misdemeanor charge in a deal with prosecutors on Tuesday in connection with helping two convicted murderers in their daring June escape from a maximum security prison in upstate New York.

• Captured New York fugitive moved to prison from hospital

  Captured prison escapee David Sweat was released on Sunday from a New York hospital where he had been treated for gunshot wounds and moved to a prison more than 250 miles from the one he fled, authorities said.

• Search on for two murderers in New York maximum security prison break

  A manhunt was underway for two convicted murderers who pulled off an elaborate overnight escape from adjoining cells in a New York state maximum security prison near the border with Canada, police said on Saturday.

• Oil leaked into Hudson River after fire at nuclear reactor near NYC

  Oil leaked into the Hudson River on Sunday after a transformer fire and explosion a day earlier at the Indian Point nuclear plant north of New York City, and Governor Andrew Cuomo said he was concerned about environmental damage.

• New York Assembly speaker to be replaced next week: NYT

  New York Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver will be replaced next week by a state lawmaker as he fights federal corruption charges, the New York Times newspaper reported on Tuesday, citing Democratic lawmakers.

• N.Y. state Assembly speaker charged with fraud in corruption probe

  New York Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, one of the state's most powerful politicians for more than two decades, was charged on Thursday with pocketing $4 million from bribery and kickback schemes.

• Former New York Governor Mario Cuomo dead at 82

  Mario Cuomo, the three-time governor of New York and a leading voice of the Democratic Party's liberal wing who turned down several invitations to seek the U.S. presidency, died on Thursday at his home in Manhattan. He was 82.

• NY Governor Cuomo vows to rebuild trust in police in second term

  New York Governor Andrew Cuomo kicked off his second term on Thursday, saying he is governing in “troubled times” and that education, the economy and rebuilding public trust in law enforcement would top his agenda over the next four years.

• Obama leads U.S. in remembrance of September 11 victims

  Led by President Barack Obama, Americans commemorated the 13th anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks on Thursday by observing moments of silence for the thousands killed that day at New York City's World Trade Center, the Pentagon and a Pennsylvania field.