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NEW YORK (AP) — A co-founder of an embattled upstate New York self-help organization is expected to plead guilty in a case featuring sensational claims that some followers became branded sex slaves.Nancy Salzman is due in federal court in Brooklyn on Wednesday afternoon for a plea hearing. There was no response to a request for comment from one of her lawyers.Salzman was a co-founder of NXIVM, a cult-like group based near Albany. Prosecutors say a secret society [...]

HUNTER (Tribune New Service) - Three skiers have died at the Hunter Mountain ski area in less than two months after using new trails, a spokeswoman for the resort confirmed.The first death at the Greene County ski resort this season occurred Jan. 19 on the newly opened Twilight Trail.Brendan Brown McCue, 27, of Little Falls, died of a chest wound after he tried to avoid skiers who had stopped on the trail and encountered icy conditions, his aunt, Christine McCue, told [...]

HP is recalling lithium-ion computer batteries in more than 128,500 laptops because of the danger of potential fire and burn hazards in cases of a battery malfunction, according to the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission.The recall was originally announced in early January and included around 50,000 laptops but has since been expanded.Devices included in the recall: HP ProBooks (64x G2 and G3 series, 65x G2 and G3 series, 4xx G4 series); HPx360 (310 G2); HP Pavilion x360 [...]

Ulster Republicans this week named Jack Hayes, chairman of the county’s Conservative Party, as their candidate to compete with Democrat Pat Ryan in an April 30 special election for Ulster County executive to fill that office for the rest of 2019. County Republican Chairman Roger Rascoe said it was unclear if Hayes also will run [...]

Just before lunchtime Wednesday, people across the U.S. and in other parts of the world started reporting that they couldn’t access or post to both Instagram and Facebook.According to an outage map and comments on Downdetector.com, people seem to be experiencing the outage in other countries as well.Issues range from people not being able to log in to the services at all to general slowness. [...]

STEWART AIRPORT – After a one-day hiatus, Norwegian Air resumed daily flights between Dublin, Ireland, and New York Stewart International Airport on Wednesday using a Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner in place of the grounded Boeing 737 MAX 8.Norwegian said the Stewart-Dublin flights will also temporarily serve passengers booked to and from T. F. Green Airport in Providence, R.I., as it works to reconfigure its schedule and fleet to cover the loss of the MAX 8s – the primary [...]

GOSHEN - The Eric Carbonaro who stood in Orange County Court on Wednesday, somber and remorseful, is a different young man than he was in October 2016, when he was 17 and involved in the vandalism of a Jewish cemetery with swastikas and SS symbols.He pleaded guilty a year ago to two felonies in the incident at Temple Beth Shalom's cemetery off Spanktown Road near the Village of Florida. He spent four months in Orange County Jail and several more months on interim probation in an [...]

NEW YORK — Facebook says it is aware of outages on its platforms, including Facebook, Messenger and Instagram, and is working to resolve the issue.According to downdector.com, which monitors websites, the outages started around noon on Wednesday in parts of the U.S., including the East and West Coast, parts of Europe and elsewhere. Both Facebook's desktop site and app appeared to be affected. Some users saw a message that said Facebook was down for "required maintenance. [...]

Come to The Left Bank Art Gallery from 4-7 p.m. Friday for the opening reception for "Expressions." The exhibit of about 40 paintings by people with developmental disabilities includes the one above by Arthur Blouin and works by other artists from Arc's Orange and Sullivan county programs. Refreshments and light fare will be served. The exhibit runs 1-6 p.m. Thursdays-Saturdays through April 15. The Left Bank Art Gallery, 59 N. Main St., Liberty.Looking for a parade [...]

WASHINGTON — The Federal Aviation Administration issued an emergency order Wednesday grounding all Boeing 737 Max aircraft in the wake of a crash of an Ethiopian airliner that killed 157 people, a reversal for the U.S. after federal aviation regulators had maintained it had no data to show the jets are unsafe.The decision came hours after Canada joined some 40 other countries in barring the Max 8 from its airspace, saying satellite tracking data showed possible but unproven [...]