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• Vehicle Jumps Curb, Strikes Pedestrian on NYC Sidewalk

  09-01-2019 23:55 via nbcnewyork.com
  
  One person in injured after a vehicle jumped the curb in the Bronx Wednesday afternoon, police say.
  
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• McLaughlin lauds Rensselaer County successes, warns of challenges

  09-01-2019 23:50 via timesunion.com
  TROY – Rensselaer County Executive Steve McLaughlin reviewed his administration's successes in 2018 and warned that the arrival of complete Democratic control of state government in 2019 could be a challenge for the county and other upstate communities in a state of the county address Wednesday."Sadly, it is historic how little attention has been given at times to upstate. And given the switch in leadership in the Senate, there is ample reason to be concerned about the future and whether r
  
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• Mysterious Spike in Complaints About Street Signs Moves Council to Halt Violations

  09-01-2019 23:49 via nytimes.com
  The mayor is expected to sign the bill, which gained momentum after a mysterious spike in anonymous 311 calls reporting illegal signs on New York City storefronts.
  
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• FDNY: Roof Collapse Seriously Injures One Person

  09-01-2019 23:48 via nbcnewyork.com
  
  A partial roof collapse at a Brooklyn construction site left one person with serious injuries, according to FDNY officials.Photo Credit: NBC 4 New York
  
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• Snow Likely Across Tri-State This Weekend

  09-01-2019 23:43 via nbcnewyork.com
  
  Storm Team 4 is tracking a storm system that could bring wintry weather to the tri-state this weekend, and confidence is now growing that the region will see snow beginning as early as Saturday night.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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• Person Injured in Partial Roof Collapse in Brooklyn

  09-01-2019 23:42 via nbcnewyork.com
  
  Firefighters are responding to a partial roof collapse at a construction site in the Bed-Stuy section of Brooklyn. One person is injured. Ray Villeda reports.
  
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• Federal Workers in NYC Worry as Finances Get Dire

  09-01-2019 23:37 via nbcnewyork.com
  
  800,000 federal workers are looking at yet another week without a paycheck. One Brooklyn man says his situation is becoming dire. Adam Kuperstein reports.
  
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• Dozens of Limo Plates Seized Across NY After Deadly Crash

  09-01-2019 23:33 via nbcnewyork.com
  
  New York state troopers have seized dozens of license plates from limousines around the state in the months after the deadly limousine crash upstate that killed 20 people.Photo Credit: Peter R. Barker/Daily Gazette, File
  
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• Queensbury teller admits to embezzling $480,000

  09-01-2019 23:24 via timesunion.com
  ALBANY – A former bank teller admitted Wednesday to embezzling more than $480,000 from two local banks over a span of three and a half years, the United State Attorney's office said.Caitlin Kenney, 33 Queensbury, plead guilty to embezzlement by a bank employee. She faces up to 30 years in prison and a fine of up to $1 million in addition to making restitution, U.S Attorney Grant Jaquith said in a press release.
  
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• Rensselaer County settlement of federal lawsuit is $350,000

  09-01-2019 23:15 via timesunion.com
  TROY – Rensselaer County is paying 10 percent of a $350,000 settlement to resolve a federal civil rights lawsuit filed in 2014 by the former chief of the Rensselaer County Jail that alleged she was fired by former Sheriff Jack Mahar for refusing to retaliate against a jail guard."It's $35,000 and the total is $350,000," Richard Crist, a spokesman for County Executive Steve McLaughlin, said Wednesday regarding the county's portion.
  
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• Officers Beat Suspects With Batons in Arrest Caught on Video

  09-01-2019 23:06 via nbcnewyork.com
  
  A pair of police officers were caught on video hitting two men with batons during an altercation in Manhattan — a use of force the NYPD’s union says was needed to arrest them.
  
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• Broadway Actors’ Union on Strike, Hit NYC Streets

  09-01-2019 22:57 via nbcnewyork.com
  
  Actors’ Equity union members greeted Broadway ticket buyers outside the Broadway TKTS location in Time Square Wednesday, asking them to join the #NotALabRat campaign.Photo Credit: Pexels/CC
  
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• Gloversville mayor resigns after admitting misconduct

  09-01-2019 22:47 via timesunion.com
  GLOVERSVILLE - The Gloversville Mayor, who police said had been using City Hall's postage meter for personal mail and then falsified records, resigned Wednesday.Dayton King, 40, plead guilty to official misconduct, a misdemeanor, in Gloversville City Court and admitted to the misuse of the City's postage meter, Wednesday. As part of the plea deal King was also required to step down as Mayor in exchange for the felony charges he faced to be dropped, as reported.
  
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• Man Wanted in Bizarre Stomach-Baring Sex Crime at NYC Store

  09-01-2019 22:05 via nbcnewyork.com
  
  Authorities are looking for a man in connection with a bizarre "criminal sexual act" at a store in the heart of midtown Manhattan a day before New Year's Eve.Photo Credit: Handout
  
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• NY casino revenue climbing, but still short of projections

  09-01-2019 22:00 via timesunion.com
  In 2017, when New York's new Las Vegas-style casinos were more than $350 million off their initial revenue projections, the state Gaming Commission cautioned not to rush to conclusions about the health of the industry.The state said at the time that it takes at least three years for a casino's business to stabilize.Revenues have increased at the three casinos open since early 2017: del Lago, Rivers and Tioga Downs. But as the venues enter their third year, the casinos are still coming up about $
  
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• Campus watch: Guilderland grad Andrew Sischo honored by league

  09-01-2019 21:58 via timesunion.com
  Andrew Sischo bounced back from an injury to have a big week with the 11-2 Daemen men's basketball team and his performance earned him East Coast Conference Defensive Player of the Week on Monday.The 6-foot-9, 240-pound red-shirt center from Guilderland (Guilderland High), had been the league's Player of the Week three times prior his latest award.
  
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• New senate rules generate some pushback

  09-01-2019 21:49 via timesunion.com
  ALBANY - Senate Democrats got to flex the power of their majority on Wednesday with the adoption of new operating rules for the chamber.The vast majority of the 34-page minutia-riddled framework for doing business in the state senate were proposed without causing a stir, but changes to thescope and composition of the ethics committee, the number of members on other committees,and staffing allocations generated objections from the Senate Republicans.
  
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• Saratoga schools to hire another resource officer to patrol halls

  09-01-2019 21:45 via timesunion.com
  SARATOGA SPRINGS – Following recommendations from the New York Schools Insurance Reciprocal and pressure from a parents group, the Saratoga Springs City School district will hire an additional school resource officer.The new SRO, the district confirmed, will be supplied by the Saratoga County Sheriff's Office and walk the halls of the Maple Avenue Middle School as well as cover Dorothy Nolan Elementary and the Greenfield Elementary schools.
  
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• Shutdown threatens area food banks, pantries

  09-01-2019 21:25 via timesunion.com
  The region's food pantries could be "inundated" by people seeking assistance should the shutdown continue after SNAP funding expires next month, according to Mark Quandt, executive director of the Regional Food Bank of Northeastern New York.
  
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• Bethlehem officers investigate possible police impersonator

  09-01-2019 21:23 via timesunion.com
  BETHLEHEM — Town police are investigating an incident in which a man pulled over a car in Selkirk and possibly posed as a police officer.The suspect is described as a white man, 25 to 30 years old and thin build, told the driver that they were stopped for having an insufficient taillight.
  
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• Avoiding San Francisco’s Errors

  09-01-2019 20:16 via nytimes.com
  The president of the New York City Economic Development Corporation discusses how his city is “proving to be the anti-Silicon Valley.”
  
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• NYC Introduces Proposal for Mandatory Paid Time Off

  09-01-2019 20:13 via nbcnewyork.com
  
  Mayor Bill de Blasio made a bold proposal Wednesday — he wants New York City to be the first in the nation to mandate personal time for workers.Photo Credit: NBC 4 New York
  
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• Siena basketball's Jalen Pickett playing through finger injury

  09-01-2019 20:12 via timesunion.com
  Pickett said today he's playing with a torn tendon in the middle finger on his right (shooting) hand. He suffered the injury early in the defeat at Saint Peter's last Thursday."Yeah, it was different, so I've got to keep getting used to it,'' Pickett said. "But I think I'm picking it up now. I'm probably going to be dribbling a little more with my left than my right, so we'll see how that goes."The finger is heavily taped around a splint Pickett said he'll wear for a couple of weeks. He fiddled
  
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• Jake Moon turns 10, the Bear's is 50

  09-01-2019 20:09 via timesunion.com
  Jake Moon Restaurant and Cafe in Clarksville will observe its 10th anniversary on Tuesday.The legendary Bear's Steakhouse in Duanesburg turned 50 on Tuesday.
  
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• JCOPE vote on Percoco may remain mystery

  09-01-2019 19:59 via timesunion.com
  ALBANY — A recent move by the state Joint Commission on Public Ethics could make it difficult for the public to learn whether the panel has authorized an investigation of Joseph Percoco, a former top aide to Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo.On Dec. 18, state Supreme Court Justice Patrick McGrath ordered that JCOPE's commissioners had one month to vote on whether to investigate Percoco for misuse of state resources.
  
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• Hit-And-Run Victim Identified as 80-Year-Old Grandmother

  09-01-2019 19:46 via nbcnewyork.com
  
  The woman who was killed when a city sanitation truck allegedly struck her in a hit-and-run in the Bronx early Tuesday morning has been identified as an 80-year-old grandmother.
  
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• Capital Region residents nominated to military academies

  09-01-2019 19:43 via timesunion.com
  Three Capital Region residents are among the candidates nominated to the U.S. Military Academy and Merchant Marine Academy, Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand announced Wednesday.
  
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• 100 truckloads of dirt ready for Albany Monster Jam

  09-01-2019 19:34 via timesunion.com
  ALBANY — Workers dumped about 100 truckloads of dirt on the floor of the Times Union Center for this weekend's Monster Jam.The monster truck event will be Saturday and Sunday.Promoters also plan pit parties on both weekend days.
  
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• Take a look at Albany's first new-concept Dunkin'

  09-01-2019 19:23 via timesunion.com
  The first next-generation Dunkin' in the Capital Region opened Wednesday in Albany.
  The restaurant at 500 Northern Blvd.includes new technology, including a drive-through lane exclusively for mobile ordering.
  
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• High School Fires Security Guard Who Left Gun in Bathroom

  09-01-2019 19:15 via nbcnewyork.com
  
  A high school security guard was fired after he left an unloaded gun inside one of the school’s bathrooms, the district’s superintendent said.Photo Credit: News 4 New York
  
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• Cop Accidentally Fires Gun in New Jersey High School

  09-01-2019 19:05 via nbcnewyork.com
  
  Officials in Jersey City say a police officer has been reassigned after accidentally firing his gun inside a school.Photo Credit: NBC10
  
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• Sports-Themed Health Center Open in Midtown

  09-01-2019 19:00 via nbcnewyork.com
  
  A sports-themed prostate cancer health center is now open in New York City.Photo Credit: @MountSinaiNYC
  
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• Ballston Town Board sends Carpenter's Acres sewer line proposal down the drain

  09-01-2019 18:55 via timesunion.com
  BALLSTON – Saying it's listening to its residents, the town board on Tuesday night unanimously voted down plans to build a $3.9 million sewer in the Carpenter's Acre development."We have heard you loud and clear," said Supervisor Tim Szczpaniak at the town board meeting where the draft map, plan and report was rejected. "We will not go forward because it is very, very costly."
  
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• Civil rights leader slams Soares over handling of teen's shooting

  09-01-2019 18:23 via timesunion.com
  ALBANY - Civil rights activist Alice Green and community leaders blasted Albany County District Attorney David Soares' handling of a police shooting, suggesting the prosecutor manipulated the case so it would end with the officer spared from charges connected to the shooting of Ellazar Williams.Soares announced Tuesday that he would not prosecute the 19-year-old Williams who had faced charges for allegedly menacing Detective James Olsen before Olsen shot him during a foot chase in August.A grand
  
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• The Results Are In: Brooklyn Library Eagle Has a New Name

  09-01-2019 18:15 via nbcnewyork.com
  
  Brooklyn Public Library launched a contest seeking name suggestions for the eagle sculpture this past fall.Photo Credit: Brooklyn Public Library
  
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• Cuomo: Law needs to change to allow DOT to stop illegal limos

  09-01-2019 18:13 via timesunion.com
  HUDSON FALLS — Gov. Andrew Cuomo said Wednesday that changes to state law are needed to prevent another tragedy like the Oct. 6 limousine crash in Schoharie County that killed 20 people.
  
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• Cuomo: Changes needed to allow DOT to stop illegal limos in New York

  09-01-2019 18:13 via timesunion.com
  HUDSON FALLS - Gov. Andrew Cuomo said Wednesday that changes to state law are needed to prevent another tragedy like the Oct.6 limo crash in Schoharie County that killed 20 people.
  
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• Suspect slips shackle, escapes from Albany police

  09-01-2019 18:08 via timesunion.com
  ALBANY - A man who was shackled in an interview room in Albany's South Station was able to get out of the restraint and walk out of the building Wednesday, police said.Joseph Fallen was brought to the station to be questioned in a domestic violence case, police said.Left alone in the room, Fallen slipped out of the restraint.
  
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• Warrant Wednesday: Troopers hunt for robbery, ID theft suspects

  09-01-2019 17:47 via timesunion.com
  State Police are looking for nine people wanted on charges of stealing guns, identity theft and grand larceny as part of the Warrant Wednesday initiative.Anyone with information may contact the State Police or email [email protected].
  
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• Paid Vacations to Be Required for Private Sector Workers, Mayor Says

  09-01-2019 17:29 via nytimes.com
  The move could cover 500,000 New Yorkers and came a day after Mayor de Blasio announced a health-care plan that seemed similarly aimed at a national stage.
  
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• Paid Vacation to Be Required for Private Sector Workers, Mayor Says

  09-01-2019 17:29 via nytimes.com
  The move could cover 500,000 New Yorkers and came a day after Mayor de Blasio announced a health care plan that seemed similarly aimed at a national stage.
  
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• Rensselaer jury finds woman not guilty of endangering patient

  09-01-2019 17:20 via timesunion.com
  TROY – A Rensselaer County jury found a 58-year-old Albany woman not guilty Tuesday of endangering a patient she was caring for in a 24th Street residence in 2017, according to court officials.The State Supreme Court jury deliberated 90 minutes before returning a not guilty verdict for Helen L. Battle.The jury acquitted Battle of first-degree endangering the welfare of an incompetent or physically disabled person, a felony, and second-degree harassment, a misdemeanor.
  
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• Competing 50th-anniversary Woodstock festival announced

  09-01-2019 17:12 via timesunion.com
  One of the promoters of the original Woodstock music festival is planning a three-day celebration of the 50th anniversary of the event, to be held at the Watkins Glen race track in the Finger Lakes in central New York, according to a published report.Michael Lang, who co-produced the 1969 Woodstock Music & Art Fair, held at the Yasgur farm in Bethel, Sullivan County, told Rolling Stone magazine that he has already booked more than 40 acts for the three-stage festival, to be held Aug. 16 to 1
  
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• Man robbed, hit in head with skateboard in Albany

  09-01-2019 16:24 via timesunion.com
  ALBANY - A 32-year-old man is in the hospital after he was struck in the head with a skateboard and his wallet was stolen, city police said Wednesday.Albany police spokesperson Steve Smith said around 6:20 p.m. Tuesday, the victim was on Chestnut Street, just west of Swan Street, in the Center Square neighborhood when three men assaulted him and stole his property.The victim was taken to Albany Medical Center Hospital with face and head injuries, and is in serious, but stable condition, Smith sa
  
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• Local GOP chairs call for New York party leader to resign

  09-01-2019 16:09 via timesunion.com
  ALBANY -Republican county chairs hoping to rebound from "disastrous" election defeats last year are urging the state party's chair to step down.New York State Republican Chair Ed Cox was presented with a letter calling for his resignation on Tuesday, according to an email obtained by the Times Union. The letter is from the 11 county chairs that make up the 4th Judicial District, including Fulton, Schenectady, Saratoga and Washington counties.
  
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• Listen Up: Health Care for All in NYC, Subway Shutdown Impact, Governors Ball Lineup

  09-01-2019 15:53 via nbcnewyork.com
  
  Find out more about how NYC's new plan to provide comprehensive health care to all, how the government shutdown could affect the subways and the 2019 Governors Ball's lineup in this Jan. 9 edition of Listen Up.Photo Credit: WNBC
  
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• Man Wanted in Bizarre Stomach-Bearing Sex Crime at NYC Store

  09-01-2019 14:55 via nbcnewyork.com
  
  Authorities are looking for a man in connection with a bizarre "criminal sexual act" at a store in the heart of midtown Manhattan a day before New Year's Eve.Photo Credit: Handout
  
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• 11-Year-Old Girl's NYC Street Beating Posted on Snapchat

  09-01-2019 14:45 via nbcnewyork.com
  
  Newly surfaced video shows a pair of males attacking and beating a young girl in Brooklyn, police say.Photo Credit: NYPD
  
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• NJ Man Somehow Dies After Livestreamed Rant at Cop Station

  09-01-2019 14:34 via nbcnewyork.com
  
  Prosecutors in New Jersey are investigating how a 27-year-old man who walked into a police station, apparently high on drugs, wound up unresponsive while being transported by police to the hospital -- then...Photo Credit: Facebook/Lowery family
  
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• Lin-Manuel, 'Hamilton' Colleagues Save Iconic NYC Bookstore

  09-01-2019 14:19 via nbcnewyork.com
  
  Lin-Manuel Miranda can add “literary hero” to his growing list of accolades.The mastermind behind “Hamilton” and “In the Heights” musicals, as well as a handful of his "Hamilton" colleagues, announced...Photo Credit: NBC 4 New York
  
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