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Tuesday, January 22, 2013  Support is building in New York for a "DREAM Act" that would provide financial aid and other assistance to college-bound illegal immigrants in the state.

Tuesday, October 02, 2012  Cuomo’s is looking for ways to grow the private sector, and watching progress that's sprouted since launching the regional economic councils last year.

Thursday, September 20, 2012  New York's senators are hailing the re-admittance of Griffiss International Airport in Central New York to a federal program that qualifies it for improvement grants.

Thursday, September 20, 2012  The federal government is providing $14.6 million to 23 community colleges in New York to enhance job-training programs.

Friday, June 15, 2012  President Barack Obama says his plan to stop deporting younger illegal immigrants who came to the U.S. as children will make the system "more fair, more efficient and more just."

Wednesday, June 06, 2012  New York prison inmates awarded state university associates degrees are the first to graduate since prisoners' eligibility for federal Pell Grants was eliminated in 1995.

Friday, May 04, 2012  Local labor leaders are calling for a crackdown on illegal immigrants after the arrests of 6 workers employed at a Syracuse University dormitory project.

Wednesday, April 18, 2012  Five illegal immigrants discovered in Cortlandville were turned over to Border Patrol.

Tuesday, April 03, 2012  A Mississippi man has pleaded guilty to transporting illegal immigrants from Texas to northern New York, where he was arrested after mistakenly trying to enter Canada.

Thursday, March 08, 2012  Federal agents say a green card mill operating out of a Lewis County farmhouse provided fake documentation to dozens of illegal immigrants.

Friday, February 03, 2012  Susan G. Komen for the Cure is changing course, dropping its controversial decision to end grants to Planned Parenthood.

Thursday, February 02, 2012  The head of the Central New York chapter of the Susan G. Komen Foundation says she was surprised by the decision to cut funding to Planned Parenthood.

Sunday, January 29, 2012  Two U.S. senators are proposing that federal grants be used for research and to train police to identify the rising number of drivers operating under the influence of drugs.

Wednesday, December 14, 2011  Health insurers in New York will no longer be allowed to require policy holders to have their prescriptions filled by mail under a bill signed into law Tuesday that is considered win for local drug stores and for immigrants.

Monday, October 10, 2011  The state has awarded $250,000 grants to three programs in New York City and two in Syracuse.