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Better stent surgery stats needed: heart doctors

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Publicly reported statistics about how patients fare after a common heart procedure often are inaccurate, says a new study that suggests publishing the poor quality numbers may do more harm than good. Full story

New York mountain town awaits hurricane relief, 20 months later

JAY, New York (Reuters) - Rebecca Hoskins poked through the debris in her flood-wrecked house: a TV here, a light fixture there. Someone had been in and taken down the curtains. She blinked back a tear. It was a crisp early spring day and her first visit in year-and-a half to what had been her home Full story

Sandy-struck New Yorkers seek home buyouts

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Joseph Szczesny's modest Staten Island home was inundated when Superstorm Sandy slammed into the U.S. East Coast in October. Full story

Supreme Court skips gun rights case

As the Senate wades deeper into the intense gun control debate, the Supreme Court declined to hear a case over the right to carry gun in public. Full story

N.Y. localities win class-action status in online travel lawsuit

NEW YORK (Reuters) - A group of local governments in New York State has won class-action status in a lawsuit that accuses online travel booking companies of failing to pay millions of dollars in hotel taxes, one of dozens of cases in a legal battle playing out all across the country. Full story

National Internet Sales Tax Ahead?

   Is taxing internet sales fair? CNBC's John Harwood reports on today's vote; and Larry Fishelson, Dynalink CEO, says this is "anti-business," while Ted Potrikus, Retail Council of New York State, explains why this is fair.

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Very Last Word: Pornographic prose

Pedestrian safety program prevents student injuries

New York State ranks first for smuggled cigarettes in U.S.

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New York infrastructure faces $89 billion gap in 20 years: official

New NY insurance rules needed due to disagreements: official

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  Follow the yellow-brick road to this upstate NY town

As Disney’s ‘Oz’ topped its opening weekend box office, the New York State hometown of the original story’s author — L. Frank Baum — is hoping more people will learn there’s no place like home. WSTM’s Alex Dunbar reports.

  Very Last Word: Pornographic prose

Lawrence O'Donnell revisits Ed Meese's involvement in the Attorney General's pornography commission, which consisted of, among other things, long passages of porn described and written out. Also, Joy Reid touches on the tough new gun laws New York State was able to pass Tuesday.

  New York State enacts tough new gun measures

Sheldon Silver, (D), New York Assembly Speaker, talks with Rachel Maddow about New York State's passage of a set of new gun laws and how tragedies like the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting and the ambush in Webster, NY motivated politicians to act swiftly.

  Will NY gun laws mark a turning tide?

EJ Dionne, columnist for The Washington Post, talks with Rachel Maddow about what the successful passage of new gun laws in New York State might mean for the chances of new gun legislation at the national level.

  Civil War rhetoric heats up as new gun laws emerge

New York State passed one of the toughest gun laws in the country. President Obama is set to unveil new gun safety proposals. The latest developments have members of the fringe calling for Civil War. The Daily Beast's Bob Shrum and David Corn of Mother Jones join Ed Schultz to examine the danger of

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File photo of jobseekers standing in line to attend the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. career fair held by the New York State department of Labor in New York
File photo of jobseekers standing in line to attend the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. career fair held by the New York State department of Labor in New York

Jobseekers stand in line around the block to attend the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. career fair held by the New York State department of Labor in New York in this April 12, 2012 file photo. REUTERS/Lucas Jackson/Files