1st Black Woman On State’s Highest Court Found Dead By River

NEW YORK (AP) — There are no signs that a crime was committed in the death of the first black woman appointed to New York state’s highest court whose body was found on the bank of the Hudson River, police said Thursday.
Medical examiners are still planning to perform an autopsy on 65-year-old Sheila Abdus-Salaam.
The New York City police harbor unit retrieved her body from the Hudson on Wednesday, a day after she was reported missing.
Democratic Gov. Andrew Cuomo, who appointed Abdus