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Although men and women share common goals in elder law estate planning, women have specific issues, often because they tend to live longer than men do.With a heterosexual married couple, the husband usually dies first and the woman inherits the estate. The wife may remarry. Without proper planning, financial problems may ensue, especially in the areas of nursing home costs and remarriage.If the husband becomes ill later in life and needs care, the wife is often the caregiver. [...]

Chele Chiavacci Farley’s move to Tuxedo Park from Manhattan before announcing her run for the 18th Congressional District last week makes her the latest Hudson Valley congressional candidate whose residency choices happened to coincide with political opportunities.Rep. Antonio Delgado, the Democratic freshman representing the neighboring 19th District, moved to Rhinebeck from Montclair, N.J., in January 2017 and promptly launched his campaign for Congress. Four years earlier, [...]

MONROE — Leaders of the United Monroe citizens group said last week they will defer to the Monroe Town Board's judgment on a recent request by Kiryas Joel to annex 70 acres off Larkin Drive that it owns and where the village has a park and some of its wells.United Monroe had negotiated a court settlement with Kiryas Joel officials in which both sides supported Kiryas Joel's separation from Monroe — forming the new Town of Palm Tree in January — and [...]

WASHINGTON (AP) — It was a far cry from "I love WikiLeaks!"President Donald Trump declared that "I know nothing about WikiLeaks" after its disheveled founder Julian Assange was hauled out of the Ecuadorian Embassy in London to face charges, a stark contrast to how candidate Trump showered praise on Assange's hacking organization night after night during the final weeks of the 2016 presidential [...]

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — New York's comptroller is reporting a big increase in the number of questionable or fraudulent state tax refunds this year.State Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli's office says Friday that it had blocked more than 12,000 bogus refunds worth $43.7 million as of the start of the week.Last year at the same point, DiNapoli's office had identified $24 million in erroneous refunds.Many of the incorrect returns understated income or listed too [...]

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — Authorities say slightly more students are going to college tuition-free in the second year of New York state's Excelsior Scholarship program.SUNY officials estimate between 22,000 and 25,000 students received scholarships last fall to attend State University of New York or City University of New York schools.The Democrat and Chronicle of Rochester  [...]

WASHINGTON (AP) — Julian Assange's arrest on Thursday in the Ecuadorian Embassy in London opens the next chapter in the saga of the WikiLeaks founder: an expected extradition fight over a pending criminal prosecution in the United States.It's also likely to trigger a debate over press freedom and call attention to unresolved questions about Assange's role in the release of stolen Democratic emails leading up to the 2016 presidential election, part of special counsel Robert [...]

NEW YORK (AP) — Many employers in New York City could no longer require job applicants to be tested for marijuana use under legislation approved this week.The New York Times says the City Council bill, which would take effect a year after it's signed into law, has the support of Democratic Mayor Bill de Blasio's administration.It's the latest in a series of steps that [...]

GOSHEN - Orange County officials have charged a Bronx tax preparer with filing eight sets of falsified tax returns for eight unsuspecting Orange County customers, Orange County District Attorney David Hoovler announced on Thursday.Prosecutors charged Michael G. Magnaldi, 54, of Pelham, who owns MGM Tax Solutions on Williamsburg Road in the Bronx, on Thursday. Magnaldi was arraigned in New Windsor Town Court on charges of third-degree grand larceny, fourth-degree criminal tax fraud [...]

 New York State Assemblywoman Aileen Gunther, of the 100th assembly district, will have a mobile office at the Town of Wallkill Town Hall, 99 Tower Dr., according to a press release from the town's supervisor's office.Her representatives will be at the office located in the supervisor's suite on the first and third Monday of each month from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m, the press release stated. Office representatives can be reached at 845-692-7800 ext. 120. [...]