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In hopes of getting more people to apply to take the civil service test to become a police officer in Herkimer County, the county announced the exam two weeks earlier

Governor Kathy Hochul passed a legislative packaged aimed at combating the opioid crisis. Some, whove spent their entire careers in the trenches of the war on drugs, say it will might actually make things worse.

After initially listing them as one of nine agencies that had yet to submit a police reform plan, New York State officials confirmed Wednesday evening that the village of Boonville Police Department had turned it in. Boonville originally was listed as the only police agency in Oneida County that had not submitted a reform plan, despite village officials stating that — after an initial clerical error — it had been successfully submitted weeks ago. An executive order required local governme...

The village of Boonville is one of nine agencies New York State says has not submitted a police reform plan.