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The suit, filed May 6, further states that Express Scripts and UnitedHealth along with a number of each company’s pharmacy-benefit manager subsidiaries has “for no less than the last two decades … had a key role in facilitating the oversupply of opioids through intentional conduct, ignoring needed safeguards in order to increase the prescribing, dispensing, and sales of prescription opioids.”

The United States Environmental Protection Agency has finalized new rules for previously unregulated legacy ash landfills like the one at Beacon Island, in Glenmont, that are no longer in use but still pose a risk to human health. 

ALBANY COUNTY — Three local veteran service organizations were among the 10 to receive a total of $150,000 in grants announced by Albany County in a press conference on Friday morning.

New Yorkers in low-income households will have a chance to upgrade the energy efficiency in their homes while helping control climate change.

Activist Mary Finneran and Delhi Village Board member Janet Tweed are each hoping to be Democrats’ pick to take on Republican Assemblyman Chris Tague of the largely rural 102nd District in November.