Chief of New York Jail Officers' Union Is Arrested on Fraud Charges and other top stories.

• Chief of New York Jail Officers' Union Is Arrested on Fraud Charges

  According to the 17-page complaint, sworn out by Special Agent Blaire Toleman of the F.B.I., Mr. Huberfeld, through Mr. Rechnitz, paid an initial kickback to Mr. Seabrook of $60,000, the complaint said, noting that “ultimately Huberfeld agreed to pay Seabrook bribes that were expected to total hundreds of thousands of dollars.” Photo Murray Huberfeld Mr. Rechnitz delivered the payoff to the union leader in an $820 Ferragamo bag bought specifically for that purpose. He laid out the cash, acco..

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• In a Rarity, New York Tells 2 Developers No

  

  Photo The city’s Board of Standards and Appeals last week rejected a developer’s plan to turn the former First Church of Christ, Scientist, at 361 Central Park West, into a 34-unit luxury apartment building. Credit Cassandra Giraldo for The New York Times “Builders get their way” is not news in New York City.The news is when they do not. And in a couple of cases recently, they have not.The venue was the Board of Standards and Appeals, a little-known body that can seem t..

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• Hillary Clinton Wins California, Bolstering Claim to Nomination

  

  Video Clinton, Sanders and Trump on Primary Results The Democratic and Republican presidential candidates spoke after votes were cast in six states. By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS on Publish Date June 8, 2016. Photo by Doug Mills/The New York Times. Watch in Times Video » Hillary Clinton claime..

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• New York Today: Presidential New Yorkers

  

  Photo Born to lead, and born here. Credit via Library of Congress Updated, 9:32 a.m.Good morning on this bewildering Wednesday.Another week, another round of primaries — but we’re awfully close, folks.While the results are not final, Hillary Clinton and Donald J. Trump are poised to end up on the ballot for the general election, which would be the first time in 72 years that two New York residents will go head-to-head.Six former presidents were from, or were largely aff..

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• Science|New Fossils Strengthen Case for 'Hobbit' Species

  

  Photo Remains dating to around 700,000 years ago discovered on the island of Flores. Credit Kinez Riza Scientists digging in the Liang Bua cave on the Indonesian island of Flores years ago found a tiny humanlike skull, then a pelvis, jaw and other bones, all between 60,000 and 100,000 years old.The fossils, the scientists concluded, belonged to individuals who stood just three feet tall — an unknown species, related to modern humans, that they called Homo floresiensis ..

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• $1.5 Million Homes in Ohio, New York and Austin

  

  The carriage house is a two-story brick building with extensive exposed brick and wood inside. The lower level is open, while the upstairs is a loft with a pitched wood-paneled ceiling, porthole windows and skylights, as well as a sleeping nook.OUTDOOR SPACE: The property is 1.1 acres, with 150 feet of frontage on the lake.TAXES: $18,166 a yearCONTACT: Mike Franklin, Franklin Ruttan, (315) 876-2262; historiclighthouseforsale.com•PENINSULA, OHIOWHAT: A contemporary with three bedrooms and three ..

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• Maria Sharapova Is Suspended From Tennis for Two Years

  

  Documents from her lawyer, John Haggerty, which were posted on her Facebook page, acknowledged that a four-year suspension “in effect would end her career.” But Sharapova would be only 30 if her suspension is upheld and returning to a sport in which Williams and Roger Federer remain top players in their mid-30s.Meldonium, which is not approved for sale in the United States or the European Union but is sold over the counter in Russia and some other Eastern European countries, has been a source o..

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• Hillary Clinton, Bernie Sanders, Stanford University: Your ...

  

  Photo Hillary Clinton celebrated on Tuesday evening in Brooklyn after she became the first woman to win a major party’s presidential nomination. Credit Chang W. Lee/The New York Times (Want to get this briefing by email? Here’s the sign-up.)Good morning.Here’s what you need to know:• “We’ve reached a milestone.”Hillary Clinton claimed the Democratic nomination on Tuesday night — becoming the first woman at the top of a major party ticket — with decisive victories in Cal..

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• New York's Right to Repair is running out of time

  

  Last year, legislators in New York state introduced an ambitious new bill called the Fair Repair Act. The bill's measures are simple, requiring electronics manufacturers to make available the necessary information and parts to repair a device. That means when your phone or smartwatch screen breaks, you'll be able to repair it without sending it back to the manufacturer, a big difference for third-party repair groups like iCracked and the Fixer's Collective. But for the last year, nothing has ha..

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• New York City Schools Exhibited "Institutionalized Deliberate ...

  A Brooklyn attorney, Carrie Goldberg, has asked the U.S. Department of Education and the Department of Justice to open a joint investigation into the New York City Department of Education, alleging an “epidemic” of administrative malpractice when it comes to sex crimes in city schools. Goldberg, whose firm specializes in internet abuse and sexual consent, represents at least three victims of sexual assault who all wound up “formally or informally suspended” by their Brooklyn public schools. Al..

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