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• Focus on Brownfield cleanup efforts

• State auditors crack down on tax refund claims

• Among new NY laws: You can't watch a dogfight

• Bill would lead to restrictions on video game violence

• Bruno hired as CEO at company with state contracts

• NY law seeks to restrict violent video games

• Paterson seeks federal aid for economic downturn

• Paterson, top state lawmakers discuss economic downturn

• Bruno ends tenure with tour of district projects

• Blog: Paterson on the 'accidental governor" jabs

• New State Senate Leader Skelos meets upstate residents

• State Senate to adopt cap on school property taxes

AP New York

• Upstate village plans service for crash victim

• Thruway reopened after flooding shuts down highway

• NY commission charges 4 ex-Spitzer aides

• NY probe: 4 Spitzer appointees may have broken law

• Corning Inc. finds buyer for Steuben Glass

AP Connecticut

• Police say man burglarized his parents' home

• Donations, government erasing Dodd campaign debt

• Stolen Jewett City fire truck recovered

• DOT: emergency repairs need for New Haven bridge

• Getaway driver in robbery spree gets 12 years

AP New Jersey

• Ex-mayor who lied about Army record to face judge

• NJ coastal evacuation plan unveiled

• Poll gives Lautenberg lead in NJ Senate race

• Judge orders release of NJ ex-govs' taxpayer rides

• NJ finds nearly 1,500 banned yo-yo waterballs