May 8—The York School Department agreed to pay a former special education teacher $237,500 to settle a lawsuit she filed against the district last summer alleging she was discriminated against for being gay. The school district will pay $170,000 in backpay and damages to Michele Figueira and $67,500 to her attorneys, to be doled out by the district's insurance, according to a copy of the ...
Amtrak will restore its full Empire Service schedule between New York Penn Station and Albany-Rensselaer in early March, and in doing so has effectively killed a plan to bring temporary Metro-North tr...