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News Minute: Here is the latest New York news from The Associated Press

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ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) - There is no word whether the first day yesterday of closed-door meetings involving Cuomo administration officials and state lawmakers produced agreement on a number of issues still pending in the Assembly. The negotiations could drag on through much of the week.

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) - A former Marine says he is innocent of a double murder in the Philippines. Authorities there are seeking to extradite Timothy Kaufman, who has remained in jail since his arrest in April near his grandfather's Albany-area home. In a letter sent to reporters from jail, Kaufman says he left the Asian nation after the killings because he feared for his safety.

NEWBURGH, N.Y. (AP) - Classes are resuming this morning at a magnet school in Newburgh where a fire in a classroom yesterday forced the evacuation of several hundred students. The (Middletown) Times Herald-Record reports the blaze broke out in a classroom. The lone injury was to a substitute teacher who fainted outside the building.

COLLINS, N.Y. (AP) - A western New York man has been charged after state police say he slammed his girlfriend's head through a wall late last week, and then injured 1 of the troopers trying to arrest him. The woman was treated at a hospital after the incident allegedly involving Cory Cornell of Collins, in Erie County.

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