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• In Little Guyana, Proposed Cuts to Family Immigration Weigh Heavily

  11-08-2017 23:53 via nytimes.com
  The Guyanese often bring members of their extended families to the United States, a practice threatened by a new bill endorsed by the president.
  
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• Charter Schools Push to Ease Teacher Requirements

  11-08-2017 23:26 via nbcnewyork.com
  
  Charter schools are pushing to ease strict requirements for teachers and increase on-the-job training. Ida Siegal reports.
  
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• Questions Arise Over Football Drill After Teen Is Killed

  11-08-2017 23:14 via nbcnewyork.com
  
  Funeral arrangements for the 11th-grade Long Island student killed in what district officials say was a "horrific accident" during an off-season football practice at his high school have been set as his...
  
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• Wife Killed Husband, Then Herself, in New $1.6M Home: Pros.

  11-08-2017 23:06 via nbcnewyork.com
  
  Authorities have released the identities of the couple found dead inside a newly built home in a luxury New Jersey development Thursday, saying it appears the woman shot and killed her husband before...Photo Credit: NBC 4 NY
  
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• NYPD Cop Shot in Standoff Leaves Hospital to Cheers

  11-08-2017 23:03 via nbcnewyork.com
  
  The 30-year-old NYPD officer who was shot during an hours-long standoff that ended when the gunman killed himself Thursday was released from the hospital Friday afternoon.This story uses functionality that may not work in our app. Click here to open the story in your web browser.
  
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• Man Tries to Rape Mother in Walgreens Bathroom: NYPD

  11-08-2017 22:52 via nbcnewyork.com
  
  A Bronx Walgreens manager came to the rescue of a mother after a man tried to rape her in a bathroom of the pharmacy, police say.
  
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• YMCA camp helps grieving boy collect rainbows

  11-08-2017 22:07 via timesunion.com
  Nine-year-old Robbie Ecuyer's parents died within two weeks of each other this year. Robbie, of Cohoes, is autistic and understands his parents have "crossed over the rainbow bridge." Rainbows are very special to him.Albany County Executive McCoy, Capital District YMCA President/CEO David Brown along with hundreds of campers helped fulfill Robbie''s dream of collecting rainbows Friday at YMCA Adventure Camp in Guilderland.
  
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• 2015 campaign filing questioned in North Greenbush

  11-08-2017 22:06 via timesunion.com
  NORTH GREENBUSH — Republican Supervisor Lou Desso's 2015 financial disclosure filings regarding a $7,000 in-kind contribution for his fundraiser that year have emerged as an issue in the 2017 minor-party primary contests brewing with Democratic candidate Ron Sincio.
  
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• WATCH: NYPD Cop Shot in Standoff to Get Out of Hospital

  11-08-2017 22:01 via nbcnewyork.com
  
  The 30-year-old NYPD officer who was shot during an hours-long standoff that ended when the gunman killed himself Thursday is expected to be released from the hospital later Friday.This story uses functionality that may not work in our app. Click here to open the story in your web browser.
  
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• Winery opens Troy tasting room

  11-08-2017 21:55 via timesunion.com
  Troy — The Hudson-Chatham Winery has opened its new tasting room for its wines, as well as local beers, spirits and ciders, at 203 River St. in Troy.Based in Ghent, Columbia County, the winery has been in operation since 2007, has a tasting room in Tannersville, and has won numerous awards. The Troy tasting room will be open Tuesday through Sunday.
  
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• NYers Return Home After Biking Over 3,000 Miles for Charity

  11-08-2017 21:43 via nbcnewyork.com
  
  Two friends, two bikes, one month and 3484 miles to get across the country. Bikers cycled coast to coast for charity.Photo Credit: Douglas Sawyer/ Facebook
  
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• Grads From These 11 NJ Colleges Have the Highest Salaries

  11-08-2017 21:30 via nbcnewyork.com
  
  These 11 schools in the Garden State produce graduates with the highest median salaries.Photo Credit: AP
  
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• NYC Reports 1st Human West Nile Case of Season

  11-08-2017 21:06 via nbcnewyork.com
  
  A person is in serious condition at a Manhattan hospital with West Nile virus, the first human case of the 2017 season, city health officials say. The patient is less than 50 years old and has...Photo Credit: Alice Barr
  
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• Is free tuition behind UAlbany's record applicant pool?

  11-08-2017 20:56 via timesunion.com
  ALBANY – The University at Albany saw a record number of applications this year, a trend university officials say has just as much to do with the state's new free tuition program as it does the college's growing name recognition.Freshman applications are up 5 percent over last year to just under 25,000, while transfer applications are up an unprecedented 11 percent to 4,796.
  
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• Jury convicts Schenectady drug suspect who chanced second trial

  11-08-2017 20:41 via timesunion.com
  SCHENECTADY - A Schenectady County jury has again convicted Thomas Montford, the Schenectady man who turned down a plea offer that would have set him free, and instead opted for a second trial where he could have faced up to 18 years in prison.Montford, who represented himself at trial, was convicted Friday afternoon of the top count of possession with intent to sell, for which he faces up to 9 years in prison, according to attorney Brian Mercy.Sentencing is scheduled for Aug. 25. 
  
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• Teen Killed in Football Accident Was Organ Donor: Mom

  11-08-2017 20:30 via nbcnewyork.com
  
  Funeral arrangements for the 11th-grade Long Island student killed in what district officials say was a "horrific accident" during an off-season football practice at his high school have been set as his...Photo Credit: NBC 4 New York
  
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• Campaign treasuries grow in GOP Rensselaer County executive race

  11-08-2017 20:05 via timesunion.com
  TROY – The two candidates for the Republican Party line in the Rensselaer County executive's race raised more funds for the final month of the primary campaign, according to financial disclosure forms filed with the state Board of Elections Friday.Assemblyman Steven McLaughlin of Troy has raised $17,310 since July 15, compared to $11,700 taken in by Deputy County Executive Christopher Meyer.
  
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• Man Faces 4 Years in Crash That Killed 4, Including Own Tot

  11-08-2017 19:24 via nbcnewyork.com
  
  A 35-year-old man who killed four people, including his 2-year-old daughter, when he was on Xanax and briefly steered with his knees, causing a multi-vehicle crash on the Taconic State Parkway in 2015 faces...
  
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• Bill would create right to sue for nonconsensual backyard surveillance

  11-08-2017 19:06 via timesunion.com
  Legislation awaiting action by Gov. Andrew Cuomo would create a right for homeowners to sue a neighbor for invasion of privacy if the neighbor secretly records recreational activities in the homeowner's backyard.The bill, sponsored by state Sen. Cathy Young, R-Cattaraugus County, and Assemblyman Ed Braunstein, D-Queens, builds on a 2003 law that made it a felony to videotape someone without their permission in an intimate setting, in which there would be a reasonable expectation of privacy, such
  
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• Siblings Horrified by Corpse Foot on Coffin as They Bury Dad

  11-08-2017 19:02 via nbcnewyork.com
  
  Grieving New York City siblings are demanding answers after they say the decaying foot of a corpse from an adjoining grave appeared on top of their father's blue casket as they were laying him to rest at a...Photo Credit: NBC 4 New YorkThis story uses functionality that may not work in our app. Click here to open the story in your web browser.
  
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• Man Against Nature

  11-08-2017 19:01 via nytimes.com
  Perri Hofmann sees New York as a collage of the actual city and the images on display everywhere.
  
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• Cop Shot in Brooklyn Standoff to Be Released From Hospital

  11-08-2017 18:51 via nbcnewyork.com
  
  The 30-year-old NYPD officer who was shot during an hours-long standoff that ended when the gunman killed himself Thursday is expected to be released from the hospital later Friday.Photo Credit: NBC 4 NYThis story uses functionality that may not work in our app. Click here to open the story in your web browser.
  
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• NY Woman Faked Cancer, Collected $50K: Feds

  11-08-2017 18:32 via nbcnewyork.com
  
  A Westchester woman has been arrested by federal agents in Florida, accused of pretending she had cancer in order to solicit money online, ultimately raising $50,000, then fleeing the state. The...
  
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• Man, woman hit by car in Stillwater, deputies said

  11-08-2017 18:19 via timesunion.com
  STILLWATER - A woman who was laying in the road and a man who was trying to get her up were both hit by a sedan on Rute 76 Friday morning, deputies said.Nicole L. Breault, 33, of Athens was driving a Honda Accord south on Route 76 when she hit Shayne M. Pendergast, 22, of Stillwater and Sandra M. Laske, 23, of Stillwater, according to the Saratoga County Sheriff's Office.
  
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• Bethlehem Democrats support candidates even if they're off ballot

  11-08-2017 18:07 via timesunion.com
  BETHLEHEM – The Bethlehem Democratic Committee  voted overwhelmingly to stand by the candidates it endorsed for highway superintendent (former Selkirk fire commissioner, farmer and retired U.S. Army lieutenant colonel) Giles Wagoner) and town board member (attorney Dan Coffey) even if they are banned from the September 12 primary and forced to appear on November election ballots as Working Families candidates, not Democrats. Two rivals for those jobs--Dan Morin (highway super) and Geo
  
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• Bethlehem Democrats support candidates even if off ballot

  11-08-2017 18:07 via timesunion.com
  BETHLEHEM – The Bethlehem Democratic Committee  voted overwhelmingly to stand by the candidates it endorsed for highway superintendent (former Selkirk fire commissioner, farmer and retired U.S. Army lieutenant colonel) Giles Wagoner) and town board member (attorney Dan Coffey) even if they are banned from the September 12 primary and forced to appear on November election ballots as Working Families candidates, not Democrats. Two rivals for those jobs--Dan Morin (highway super) and Geo
  
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• Search list of unpaid parking tickets in Albany

  11-08-2017 18:01 via timesunion.com
  Search the city of Albany's database of unpaid parking tickets using this tool. 
  
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• Update: Glens Falls police arrest man in connection to double homicide

  11-08-2017 17:55 via timesunion.com
  Two people have been found dead inside a Glens Falls home, police said Friday.Law enforcement sources confirmed at 1:30 p.m that they are investigating a double homicide.
  
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• Update: Glens Falls man charged with murder in double homicide

  11-08-2017 17:55 via timesunion.com
  GLENS FALLS — Police on Friday arrested a man they believe is responsible for the killings of a woman and young girl whose bodies were found inside a home south of downtown Glens Falls.
  The victims were found Friday morning, according to The Post-Star newspaper, which also reported that police arrested Bryan Redden, a 21-year-old Glens Falls man. Redden was expected to be arraigned and charged with murder Friday night at Glens Falls City Court, although the proceeding had not happened as o
  
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• Glens Falls police probing double homicide

  11-08-2017 17:55 via timesunion.com
  Two people have been found dead inside a Glens Falls home, police said Friday.Law enforcement sources confirmed at 1:30 p.m that they are investigating a double homicide.
  
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• After Facebook post, state officials condemn Daniel Loeb

  11-08-2017 17:51 via timesunion.com
  ALBANY — Top state officials on Friday condemned a Facebook comment from wealthy hedge fund manager and major political donor Daniel Loeb in which he said the state Senate Democratic minority leader, who is African-American, has done "more damage to people of color than anyone who has ever donned a hood."Loeb's comment was left on a post about a New York Times story about a racially charged remark that Senate Democratic Conference Leader Andrea Stewart-Cousins made during a meeting with Go
  
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• Saint Rose students make music analog-style

  11-08-2017 17:50 via timesunion.com
  [...] no matter what they did — no matter how they noodled over which gizmos — no traces of music were making it into the reel-to-reel tape recorder from the piano behind the glass, where recent graduate Katie Kierstead was playing a demo for an upcoming album on vinyl.Purchased with a grant of undisclosed proportions from the Les Paul Foundation, the rigging includes both a 24-track, 2-inch, circa-1982 Otari MX80 reel-to-reel tape recorder and a 1946 Presto 6N record cutter of the e
  
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• 1 Dead, 2 Injured in Conn. Small Plane Crash

  11-08-2017 17:24 via nbcnewyork.com
  
  One person is dead and two have been injured after a small plane carrying three people crashed at a small airport in New Milford, according to the National Transportation Safety Board.
  
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• Traffic alert: Car burns on Thruway

  11-08-2017 17:19 via timesunion.com
  BETHLEHEM - A car fire between Exit 21A and Exit 22 is causing a possible traffic delay on the Thruway.State Department of Transportation said the alert at about the fire at 11 a.m. It was unclear if anyone was badly hurt or whether the vehicle was on the north or south side of the highway.
  
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• 2 left intoxicated man to freeze to death on North Country road, troopers said

  11-08-2017 16:52 via timesunion.com
  Two people face charges of criminally negligent homicide for leaving an intoxicated man to freeze to death along a North Country road, State Police said.Jason Guay, 42, of Mooers was found dead March 5 on Route 11, troopers said. The temperature dropped to minus 5 degrees overnight, investigators said.Guay's body found less than 500 feet from his home.
  
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• The 'Best Burger in America' is Finally Headed to NYC

  11-08-2017 16:49 via nbcnewyork.com
  
  Au Cheval, Chicago’s well-loved diner, is expected to open at 79 Walker Street in Tribeca in late summer of 2018.Photo Credit: Sam Howzit / Flickr
  
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• NYC Woman Takes App-Fueled Journey to Find Lost Purse

  11-08-2017 16:20 via nbcnewyork.com
  
  When a Brooklyn woman stepped off a bus and realized she'd forgotten her purse there, it took a single smartphone to hail a cab, track the bus in real time, find the driver and ultimately be reunited...Photo Credit: Stephanie SeilerThis story uses functionality that may not work in our app. Click here to open the story in your web browser.
  
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• 'Beyond Devastated': Mom of Teen Killed in Football Accident

  11-08-2017 15:02 via nbcnewyork.com
  
  An 11th-grade student on Long Island has died after suffering a serious injury in what district officials say was a "horrific accident" during an off-season football practice at his high school.Photo Credit: NBC 4 New York
  
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• Justin Lloyd, former Union College baseball player, dies

  11-08-2017 14:39 via timesunion.com
  A Union College scholar-athlete who was diagnosed with cancer in his freshman year has died.Justin Lloyd, 23, of Milton, Mass., died Aug. 3, according to his obituary.After he was diagnosed with colorectal cancer, his teammates sold "Lloydstrong" bracelets as a fundraiser so more research could be done.
  
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• Ross Levi appointed head of tourism in NY

  11-08-2017 14:09 via timesunion.com
  Ross Levi, a five-year veteran of Empire State Development, the state's economic development agency, has been promoted to executive director of tourism for the state.
  
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• New Mexico man dies in Lake Champlain

  11-08-2017 13:57 via timesunion.com
  BEEKMANTOWN (AP) — Authorities say a 72-year-old New Mexico man has drowned while paddle boarding along Lake Champlain's New York shoreline.State police say troopers responded around 10:15 a.m. Thursday to reports of a drowning off Point Au Roche in the Clinton County town of Beekmantown, about 15 miles south of the Canadian border.
  
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• Troopers welcome police dogs

  11-08-2017 13:02 via timesunion.com
  ALBANY (AP) — State troopers are getting 15 new canine teams.The troopers and their dogs are graduating from the Canine Handler Basic School at the state police academy in Albany on Friday.
  
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• Happening Today: North Korea, MH370, Opioid Crisis, Swift

  11-08-2017 12:51 via nbcnewyork.com
  
  Here's what to know for Friday, Aug. 11.Photo Credit: AP/File
  
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• GE's new CEO shows confidence in stock with $2.66M buy

  11-08-2017 12:48 via timesunion.com
  John Flannery is putting his millions where his mouth is.Flannery's the new CEO of General Electric Co., paid $2.66 million on Tuesday to buy 103,983 shares of stock for his 401(k) retirement plan.GE employs more than 6,000 people in the Capital Region, home to thousands of GE retirees who depend on GE stock for their livelihood.
  
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• GE's new CEO shows confidence in stock with $2.66 million buy

  11-08-2017 12:48 via timesunion.com
  John Flannery is putting his millions where his mouth is.Flannery's the new CEO of General Electric Co., paid $2.66 million on Tuesday to buy 103,983 shares of stock for his 401(k) retirement plan.GE employs more than 6,000 people in the Capital Region, home to thousands of GE retirees who depend on GE stock for their livelihood.
  
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• Queens Jogger Killed When Crossing Street in Crosswalk: Cops

  11-08-2017 12:34 via nbcnewyork.com
  
  A jogger was struck and killed while in a crosswalk in Queens late Thursday, police say.
  
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• Energy marketers fight for right to sell to low income customers

  11-08-2017 12:27 via timesunion.com
  The fight continues between state regulators and energy marketing companies, which are trying to preserve their rights to sell natural gas and electric supply to utility customers in New York.On Wednesday, the state's Appellate Division issued a temporary restraining order against the state Public Service Commission, which has been seeking to stop energy marketing companies from selling to low-income customers.
  
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• Weekend storms ahead in Albany

  11-08-2017 12:22 via timesunion.com
  Chances for showers and thunderstorms will increase Friday into Saturday, with dry and
  seasonable weather returning Sunday and Monday, the National Weather Service reports.Storms expected Friday afternoon and evening have a marginal risk for becoming severe, forecasters report. Saturday's storms could bring damaging winds, hail and locally heavy rain. 
  
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• Blaze Forces 3 Families Out of Their NJ Homes

  11-08-2017 12:01 via nbcnewyork.com
  
  Three families were forced out on to the streets in New Jersey after a fire ripped through an apartment building, officials say.
  
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• Man Beating, Robbing Women for Cellphones in Brooklyn: Cops

  11-08-2017 10:52 via nbcnewyork.com
  
  Police say they have linked a man to at least five robberies against women in Brooklyn, some of which turned violent, according to the NYPD.This story uses functionality that may not work in our app. Click here to open the story in your web browser.
  
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