The allegation is startling and the pattern it's based on unsettling: A rogue element in the state police has for years tailed and snitched on elected officials and political enemies.

Local governments say a proposal to study health benefits for retirees is really a "Trojan horse" that will protect forever free or nearly free lifetime health insurance for retired government workers.

Some of America’s most experienced, powerful, and successful lawyers are now behind bars, or soon will be, giving new meaning to the phrase “jailhouse lawyers.” Consider the more recent inductees into the lawyers’ hall of shame.

Attorney General Andrew Cuomo wants the New York Power Authority to provide the names of employees who deleted e-mails from a computer and phone used by the authority's inspector general, Daniel Wiese.

Prominent politicians who faced serious charges of wrongdoing and how they responded:

Gov. David Paterson says he's starting to settle into the biggest political job in the state, after he spent most of his first 50 days in political chaos.

Gov. David Paterson said Friday that he revealed his past marital affairs once he took office in part because he had heard that a rogue group of state police was investigating politicians.

Gov. David Paterson said Friday in a radio interview that he admitted past marital affairs in part because he feared an "out-of-control" element in the state police that he said was investigating politicians.

The 2007-08 state budget session is a wrap. But the final tally, released Thursday in an annual report by the state Budget Division, included some surprises in the 2008-09 budget adopted April 9.

Michelle Paige Paterson revealed the first installation of solar panels at the governor's mansion as part of an effort to reduce the building's energy consumption and pollution.