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• Ex-LI Prosecutor On Trial in Alleged Police Beating Cover-Up

  13-11-2019 07:00 via NBC New York - Local News
  
  A powerful former Long Island prosecutor is going to trial for allegedly helping a former protege cover up punching a handcuffed manPhoto Credit: Newsday via Getty Images
  
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• Cuomo Threatens to Stop Gas Company from Operating Near NYC

  13-11-2019 06:42 via NBC New York - Local News
  
  Gov. Andrew Cuomo is threatening to revoke a utility’s certificate to offer natural gas service in downstate New YorkPhoto Credit: Corbis via Getty Images
  
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• $140K in Jewelry, Bags Taken From Mall Magnate's NYC Mansion

  13-11-2019 06:35 via NBC New York - Local News
  
  Police say a group of burglars stole $140,000 worth of luggage and jewelry from a shopping mall magnate’s New York City mansionPhoto Credit: AP
  
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• Styling Black Hair Will Be Taught to a Salon Accused of Bias

  13-11-2019 05:56 via New York
  
  A settlement under New York City’s new prohibition against hairstyle discrimination requires a Manhattan salon to take steps to combat such behavior.
  
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• Ban on flavored tobacco products fails in Albany County

  13-11-2019 04:11 via Local News
  
  ALBANY — The Albany County Legislature failed to muster the 20 votes needed to pass a controversial ban on the sale of flavored tobacco products throughout the county.In a highly anticipated vote Tuesday that drew more than 100 spectators out of their homes on a cold November night, the Legislature voted 18 to 17 in favor of the ban, with one abstention and several absences. Those absences meant the 39-member Legislature lacked the 20-vote majority required to successfully pass a bill.&ldq
  
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• Child Nearly Struck by Minivan After Getting Off School Bus

  13-11-2019 04:07 via NBC New York - Local News
  
  A child was nearly hit by a minivan moments after departing from his school bus in Toms River, New Jersey. Parents believe the incident is just one example of drivers putting students in harm’s way.
  
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• Trial Begins for Driver Charges in LI Boy Scout Death

  13-11-2019 04:06 via NBC New York - Local News
  
  911 calls were played during an emotional day in court, showing some details from the day alleged drunken driver Thomas Murphy struck and killed a 12-year-old Boy Scout on Long Island.
  
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• Deliveryman Attacked and Robbed in Brooklyn

  13-11-2019 04:06 via NBC New York - Local News
  
  Two men were seen on camera attacking and robbing a deliveryman on a scooter in Flabush as he made a delivery. He was repeated hit and kicked in the face, and the suspects made off with $300 and a cellphone. NBC
  
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• LI Family Hopes for Pet Bird Returned After Taken From Store

  13-11-2019 04:03 via NBC New York - Local News
  
  A Long Island family is hoping to have their beloved pet returned to them after someone else walked out with it from a pet storePhoto Credit: NBC New York
  
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• 4-Year-Old Girl 'Killed Brutally' By Caretaker, DA Says

  13-11-2019 03:14 via NBC New York - Local News
  
  A 4-year-old Philadelphia girl endured "horrific" abuse and was "killed brutally" by the person her mother trusted to care for the young child, according to the Philadelphia District Attorney's Office.
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• Glens Falls protestors oppose local law on rallies

  13-11-2019 02:54 via Local News
  
  GLENS FALLS – A small band from the newly formed Upstate Constitutional Coalition came out to City Hall on Tuesday night to protest the city’s proposed law that aims to keep the peace during the city’s increasingly combative political rallies.Holding signs that read “My rights are not yours to take” and “Against all enemies both foreign and domestic,” six protesters called the proposed law unconstitutional because it would require them to file an applica
  
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• Siena basketball tops St. Bonaventure 78-65

  13-11-2019 02:34 via Local News
  
  The Saints improved to 2-1 as Manny Camper recorded his first career double-double with 15 points and 17 rebounds.The Saints broke a three-game losing streak against the Bonnies and are 4-6 since the rivalry was rekindled. The trophy was renamed this year for Brother Ed Coughlin, the Siena president who died in July. He was also a St. Bonaventure graduate.Siena took lead for good with 9-0 run in first half to go up 31-26 and held a 38-35 advantage at halftime.The Saints put the game away with a
  
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• American Veterans Honored by France

  13-11-2019 02:09 via NBC New York - Local News
  
  Three men who served in WWII were honored in a ceremony at a New Jersey high school where they received the French Legion of Honor, France's highest honor. NBC New York’s Gilma Avalos reports.
  
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• MTA to Expand OMNY Tap and Go Service Over Next Year

  13-11-2019 02:03 via NBC New York - Local News
  
  The MTA is hoping to have the OMNY system, which allows riders to pay via tapping their credit card or smartphones before entering the subway, expanded to all stations by the end of 2020.
  
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• UAlbany's Adam Lulka has special visitors to kick off season

  13-11-2019 01:57 via Local News
  
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  Home cooking takes on a whole new meaning when the chefs travel nearly 10,000 miles to prepare the meals.
  Adam Lulka, a redshirt sophomore on the University at Albany basketball team, has his parents, Lenny and Sonia, in town.
  That isn't always a big deal unless your homeland is Sydney, Australia. The Lulkas will be in the U.S. for "a couple of weeks," according to their son.
  They watched Saturday night as UAlbany lost its season opener 74-70 to Lehigh and return to SEFCU Arena on Wednesd
  
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• Adam Lulka has special visitors in early season

  13-11-2019 01:57 via Local News
  
  Albany
  Home cooking takes on a whole new meaning when the chefs travel nearly 10,000 miles to prepare the meals.
  Adam Lulka, a redshirt sophomore on the University at Albany basketball team, has his parents, Lenny and Sonia, in town.
  That isn't always a big deal unless your homeland is Sydney, Australia. The Lulkas will be in the U.S. for "a couple of weeks," according to their son.
  They watched Saturday night as UAlbany lost its season opener 74-70 to Lehigh and return to SEFCU Arena on Wednesd
  
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• Queens Hit and Run Driver Crashes into Cars and Cyclist

  13-11-2019 01:53 via NBC New York - Local News
  
  The car is seen on a bicyclist's camera speeding by him, then not long after slamming into a cyclist who was riding along Greenpoint Avenue in Long Island City. The car is also believed to have struck a...
  
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• More Snow and Cold: Storm Team 4's Winter Weather Forecast

  13-11-2019 00:25 via NBC New York - Local News
  
  Those few stray flakes you saw blow through New York City today are just a taste of what’s to come this winter – an above-average snow season with the potential for multiple major storms throughout the...
  
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• Storm Team 4's Winter Weather Forecast

  12-11-2019 23:53 via NBC New York - Local News
  
  Storm Team 4 expects the winter of 2019-2020 to be active, with above-normal snow and below-normal cold.Photo Credit: Storm Team 3
  
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• Interactive Theater for Children in Need

  12-11-2019 23:35 via NBC New York - Local News
  
  The power of make believe is being used to raise the spirits of children with serious illness and special needs in Chelsea. Gus Rosendale reports.
  
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• NJ Woman's Dog Breeder Warning

  12-11-2019 23:34 via NBC New York - Local News
  
  There are many ways to get a pet. Know the caveats of each. Lynda Baquero has the details.
  
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• Supreme Court Could Allow DACA to End

  12-11-2019 23:30 via NBC New York - Local News
  
  The US Supreme Court appears inclined to let the Trump Administration end the DACA program. Melissa Russo reports.
  
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• Convicted Troy man seeks 4th trial in shooting case

  12-11-2019 23:21 via Local News
  
  TROY – A city man serving a 25-year prison sentence is seeking a fourth trial to overturn his 2014 conviction for shooting a man in the head outside his home in 2009, according to Rensselaer County Court records.Ariel Myers, 28, will have a hearing in early 2020 after Judge Jennifer Sober ruled that there was merit to Myers’ claim of new evidence that may exonerate him.
  
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• A Black Paratrooper’s First Veterans Day, and His Last

  12-11-2019 23:10 via New York
  
  A long struggle to remove the stigma of a questionable Army discharge comes to a close.
  
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• Ex-NYPD Cop Sentenced for Assaulting Man, Falsifying Docs

  12-11-2019 23:01 via NBC New York - Local News
  
  A former NYPD officer was sentenced to nine months in jail for assaulting a 19-year-old young man and falsifying documents related to the violent 2017 incident, prosecutors announced Tuesday.
  
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• After-school worker at Delmar elementary school arrested for allegedly touching children

  12-11-2019 22:55 via Local News
  
  DELMAR — A worker for a Delmar elementary before- and after-school program was arrested Monday for allegedly having inappropriate contact with four children.Matthew S. Wilson, 20, of Selkirk, has been charged with four counts of forcible touching and four counts of endangering the welfare of a child, police said.Wilson is an employee of Schools Out Inc., a private entity that provides before- and after-school care for students at several locations in the town of Bethlehem, including school
  
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• Schenectady mayor mulling over key appointments

  12-11-2019 22:47 via Local News
  
  SCHENECTADY – During the recently completed review of the 2020 budget, several City Council members said they were thrilled the mayor had allocated money to hire a parks director, a position that was eliminated a year ago.“I’ve fielded many complaints about the way the parks across the city are being kept,” said Councilman Vince Riggi, noting that the parks department is also responsible for trimming trees and taking care of the islands along some Schenectady streets.Mayo
  
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• Eviction a close reality for some Capital Region residents, advocates say

  12-11-2019 22:44 via Local News
  
  The Pulitzer Prize winning book “Evicted” tells a story of tenants, poverty, landlords and profit in Milwaukee in 2008 and 2009, but for tenant advocate Laura Felts, it was like reading the notes from cases she handles every day in Albany.Felts, the incoming executive director at United Tenants of Albany, is at the city courthouse daily to help tenants facing eviction. In 2018, there were 5,197 evictions filed in Albany alone. She also sees housing rife with code violations and situa
  
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• Saratoga Springs shelter issues Code Blue, transporting homeless to Ballston Spa

  12-11-2019 22:38 via Local News
  
  SARATOGA SPRINGS —  Shelters of Saratoga is sending the homeless it serves to a temporary location in Ballston Spa. The shelter has issued a Code Blue alert for Tuesday through Sunday and will pick up those needing shelter at the Woodlawn Avenue parking garage for transport to the Fire Training Building at 6010 County Farm Road in Ballston Spa. 
  
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• Police: Hudson Falls woman arrested for crack cocaine

  12-11-2019 22:27 via Local News
  
  GLENS FALLS - A Hudson Falls woman was arrested on Friday for allegedly possessing about 2.5 grams of crack cocaine, New York State Police said.
  
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• FuzeHub plans fund competition for small, mid-size companies

  12-11-2019 22:25 via Local News
  
  FuzeHub, a nonprofit that connects small and mid-size firms statewide to expertise and funding, plans a "Shark Tank style" commercialization competition Nov. 18 and 19 at the Albany Capital Center, 55 Eagle St., in Albany.
  
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• Gillibrand wants Clean Water Act to cover PFAS

  12-11-2019 22:23 via Local News
  
  U.S. Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand is preparing to offer legislation that would place PFAS under control of the federal Clean Water Act.“Any company that discharges PFAS should get a Clean Water Act permit,” Gillibrand said in a telephone conference Tuesday about the pending bill.
  
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• Republican lawmakers escalate calls for bail reform repeal

  12-11-2019 22:18 via Local News
  
  ALBANY — A growing number of Republican state lawmakers are raising red flags on sweeping bail reform measures set to take effect in January.The legislators are calling for repeal of the changes, or at least postponing their effective date, fearing that the well-intentioned measures may put dangerous criminals back on the street and strain local law enforcement offices. On Tuesday, two separate groups of GOP lawmakers announced plans to introduce legislation targeting the reforms, which we
  
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• Philmont man sentenced for selling heroin, fentanyl

  12-11-2019 22:11 via Local News
  
  ALBANY — A Philmont man was sentenced Tuesday to three years and one month in federal prison after he pleaded guilty to trafficking heroin and fentanyl in Columbia County, the office of U.S. Attorney Grant C. Jaquith said.
  
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• Broadalbin trailer park fire displaces family

  12-11-2019 22:01 via Local News
  
  BROADALBIN - A Tuesday morning fire on Union Mills Road has displaced a family of five.
  
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• Saratoga County Sheriff: Victim in Porter Corners crash a Milton man

  12-11-2019 21:17 via Local News
  
  BALLSTON SPA - A Milton man was the victim of Monday night's crash on North Greenfield Road, Saratoga County Sheriff's Office said.
  
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• Albany High guard to sign with Siena women's basketball on Wednesday

  12-11-2019 20:58 via Local News
  
  Jackson orally committed to the Saints last summer, not a surprising decision for someone who transferred from Catholic Central to Albany High last year so she could be closer to her family.Jackson had also considered Saint Joseph’s in Philadelphia and attended a camp there. But spending the next four years in Loudonville proved more appealing.“I wanted to stay home,’’ Jackson explained. “I wanted to stay close to my family and be around them so they can come to my
  
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• Tri-State Braces for Record-Breaking Arctic Blast

  12-11-2019 20:42 via NBC New York - Local News
  
  Although New Yorkers were teased with the possibility of snow Tuesday, many did not get to experience flurries at all — but the real threat is still expected to come a day later and doesn't have much to do with...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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• Handcuffed for Selling Churros: Inside the World of Illegal Food Vendors

  12-11-2019 20:41 via New York
  
  On the male-dominated black market, a permit for mobile food vending can easily cost $25,000.
  
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• Hip-Hop Legend Jailed in NJ on Warrant From 17 Years Ago

  12-11-2019 20:36 via NBC New York - Local News
  
  Legendary hip-hop musician and actor Eric Barrier is in a New Jersey jail after surrendering voluntarily in connection to a warrant issued 17 years ago.Photo Credit: WireImage
  
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• NY gives Utica $10 million for downtown revitalization

  12-11-2019 20:30 via Local News
  
  ALBANY - Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced Tuesday that Empire State Development has awarded the city of Utica a $10 million Downtown Revitalization Initiative grant.The money will go toward improvements to Utica's downtown Genesee Street area. The grant was applied for by the Mohawk Valley Regional Economic Development Council, one of ten regional economic development councils across the state that work with ESD for state grants.
  
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• Antiques Warehouse owner looking to sell Troy building, close shop

  12-11-2019 20:19 via Local News
  
  Christine Young felt like she was changing the world as a kindergarten teacher. So when she stopped teaching in the mid 1980s, Young cried every night, she recalled.But her second career as an antique saleswoman has been equally fulfilling — she's helped make people happy by beautifying their living space and taught history to those who are willing to learn.  She recently visited a dying woman who told Young she felt so much pleasure looking at the items she had bought from Young's sh
  
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• Attorney for Colonie firm wants probe of GoFundMe page for Trump whistleblower

  12-11-2019 19:59 via Local News
  
  COLONIE – The managing partner of a Capital Region law firm has asked the inspector general of the U.S. intelligence community to investigate a GoFundMe page set up for the whistleblower who triggered the impeachment inquiry of President Donald Trump.Anthony Gallo, a New York City-based member of the Colonie-rooted firm of Tully Rinckey, informed the inspector general, Michael K. Atkinson, on Nov. 8 that he represents a client who wanted to anonymously report a possible violation of law. T
  
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• Tri-State Braces for Possible Record-Breaking Arctic Blast

  12-11-2019 19:56 via NBC New York - Local News
  
  Although New Yorkers were teased with the possibility of snow Tuesday, many did not get to experience flurries at all — but the real threat is still expected to come a day later and doesn't have much to do with...Photo Credit: Bloomberg via Getty ImagesThis story uses functionality that may not work in our app. Click here to open the story in your web browser.
  
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• Albany legislators weigh $225,000 settlement for fall at polling site

  12-11-2019 19:38 via Local News
  
  ALBANY - Rita O’Sullivan was voting at her polling site when she tripped on an exposed cord.The injuries she suffered were serious and permanent, costs mounted and her quality of life diminished, and it could have been prevented, a lawsuit filed against Albany County alleges. O’Sullivan’s attorney Brian Devane said they hope to resolve the matter without going to trial with the county Legislature’s approval of a $225,000 settlement.Legislators were expected to vote T
  
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• Supreme Court hears arguments on DACA cases filed by New Yorkers

  12-11-2019 19:36 via Local News
  
  WASHINGTON — As hundreds of immigrants and their allies rallied outside, the U.S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments Tuesday on a case that will decide the future of a program that allows more than 700,000 young adults who came to the country illegally as children to live and work in the United States.In one of the most highly anticipated cases of the Supreme Court’s term, Democratic attorneys general and lawyers for the plaintiffs argued that the Deferred Action for Childhood Arriva
  
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• Worker Dies After Falling at a Mall in Connecticut

  12-11-2019 19:30 via NBC New York - Local News
  
  A construction worker has died after falling at a mall in Norwalk early Tuesday morning.Photo Credit: NBCConnecticut.com
  
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• Nets CEO David Levy Steps Down After 2 Months On the Job

  12-11-2019 19:26 via NBC New York - Local News
  
  Less than two months after hiring David Levy, the Brooklyn Nets and Barclays Center are looking for a new chief executive officer.Photo Credit: AP
  
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• Cascades plant closure will eliminate 96 jobs in Waterford

  12-11-2019 19:06 via Local News
  
  The closure of the Cascades Inc. tissue converting plant in Waterford will eliminate 96 local jobs, according to a Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification filed with the state Labor Department. The Waterford plant, and another in Kingman, Ariz., will be closed effective March 27, 2020.The two plants together produce 9 million cases of tissue products annually and together have 213 employees.
  
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• Rensselaer County clerk files for injunction against 'Green Light' law

  12-11-2019 19:05 via Local News
  
  ALBANY — Rensselaer County Clerk Frank Merola has renewed his effort to get a federal judge to block the state's new "Green Light" law, which allows undocumented immigrants to obtain drivers licenses.Merola's request for a preliminary injunction blocking the recently enacted law was filed Monday in U.S. District Count in Albany. His lawsuit, filed in July. named Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo, Attorney General Letitia James and the commissioner of the state Department of Motor Vehicles as defendants
  
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