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A measure that would allow New York state to move forward with renewing the Seneca Nation’s gaming compact will not advance in the state Assembly next week, Speaker Carl Heastie announced late Friday afternoon . Heastie’s announcement caps a week of turmoil surrounding the proposal, as Rochester-area lawmakers and unions raised alarm over the pact’s potential to lead to a casino in the Rochester area. Any casino near Rochester would be near a commercially operated casino in the Finger Lakes region, where workers are unionized. There would be no guarantee that a new casino in Rochester run by Seneca would…

CNN — Millions of people in Louisiana and Oregon have had their data compromised in the cyber attack that has also hit the US federal government, state agencies said late Thursday. The breach has affected 3.5 million Oregonians with driver’s licenses or state identification cards, and anyone with such documentation in Louisiana, authorities said. Casey Tingle, a senior official in the Louisiana governor’s office, said Friday that more than 6 million records were compromised, though he noted that number is more than double because some people have vehicle registrations and driver’s licenses. The states did not blame anyone in particular…

ROCHESTER, NY — A large group rallied in downtown Rochester on Friday against putting a new Seneca Nation casino in the region. National civil rights activist Reverend Kirsten John Foy came from New York City for the event. “Neither here, nor today, we will ever allow a process that robs a community of its economic resources, its political voice and its social stability,” Foy said. Social justice advocates believe that a casino in Monroe County and especially in Rochester will have serious negative impacts on an already impoverished community. However, that wasn’t the only argument being made with lawmakers, union…

The Tuscaloosa County Violent Crimes Unit has arrested 41-year-old Dustin Jermaine Lavender. Lavender is charged with attempted murder, receiving stolen property and prohibited from carrying firearms to a certain person (felon in possession of a gun). Tuscaloosa Police were called to the 3200 block of Stillman Blvd shortly after 3pm to respond to a shooting. Once there, witnesses reported seeing a man chasing and shooting at another man down the road. Investigators determined the victim and Lavender were contract employees working at a nearby business when they got into a fight over a disagreement. The victim left the business walking…

Completion of one of two new nuclear units at Plant Vogtle is being delayed again, Georgia Power announced Friday afternoon. The latest mishap is due to a “degraded hydrogen seal” on the side of the unit’s generator, not the reactor where uranium atoms are split to produce heat. The resolution of the issue will push forward the expected date of operation of Unit 3 to July. Georgia Power’s most recent estimate was for the unit to enter service this month. The problem was discovered in the final stages of start-up tests, as engineers turned the reactor’s power up and down…

(CNN) – President Joe Biden on Friday marked one year since passing the first major gun safety legislation in a generation during a summit in Connecticut, as gun violence reaches record levels in the United States and the Additional congressional action remains stalled. Speaking at the National Safe Communities Summit in Connecticut, the president gave an impassioned speech about taking more action to protect communities, arguing that he believes the movement has reached a “tipping point.” “Whether you’re a Democrat or a Republican, we all want families to be safe. We all want to drop them off at a house…

INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) – A longtime political candidate told News 8 voters deserve an alternative to the two-party system. Andrew Horning announced his candidacy for the Senate on the Libertarian ticket in early June. In an interview with All INdiana Politics, he said the central focus of his campaign is constitutional rule of law, which he defines as state and federal governments being limited to the exact functions specified in their respective constitutions and nothing month. “The government is supposed to do very few things at the state or federal level, and it sets out exactly what they can do and…

The state Department of Labor is investigating child labor violations at New York businesses as part of an initiative to protect minors working in the state, according to Gov. Kathy Hochul’s office. The department inspected 145 companies involved in child labor practices, resulting in $105,000 in penalties. In 2021, the department discovered several violations of child labor laws at a Wendy’s restaurant located on Staten Island, including letting minors work during the school day, late on school nights, or beyond required daily and weekly work limits by the law The department audited Princeton Food Services LLC after an anonymous complaint…