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• Son of political operative gets county job

  29-01-2019 23:55 via timesunion.com
  TROY – A month after he was arrested on misdemeanor drug charges, the son of a major Rensselaer County Republican political operative received a provisional appointment to a county job in the Department of Social Services.The 22-year-old Richard Crist's situation drew attention after District Attorney Mary Pat Donnelly successfully filed a motion to successfully convince a judge to appoint a special prosecutor "to avoid the inference and appearance of impropriety in the prosecution of this
  
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• Are Police Lineups Always Fair? See for Yourself

  29-01-2019 23:23 via nytimes.com
  Hints can steer witnesses toward the suspect the police already have in mind.
  
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• New York Passes First Major Gun Control Bills Since Sandy Hook

  29-01-2019 23:13 via nytimes.com
  Bills to ban bump stocks, extend waiting periods and further strengthen New York State’s gun laws flew through the Democrat-led Legislature.
  
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• Chair of Stillwater Democrats steps down

  29-01-2019 22:39 via timesunion.com
  STILLWATER- The chair of the town's Democratic Committee is stepping down.In a letter to committee members, Paul "Butch" Lilac, who was also a supervisor in the Saratoga County town for 20 years, said he decided to resign because "it is time."
  
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• Man Stabs Girlfriend With Screwdriver, Drives Into Her: Cops

  29-01-2019 22:38 via nbcnewyork.com
  
  A Long Island man allegedly stabbed his girlfriend with a screwdriver, tried to choke her and hit her with her own car after the two got into an argument, police said.Photo Credit: Getty Images
  
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• Will NYRA move open door for Mazzone?

  29-01-2019 22:27 via timesunion.com
  When the New York Racing Association announced Monday it had ended contract talks with hospitality provider Centerplate, it didn't say who might take its place at the three race courses NYRA operates.But one Capital Region caterer "would love" to get the business.
  
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• Grandmother, 87, Beaten, Robbed While Returning From Church

  29-01-2019 22:22 via nbcnewyork.com
  
  An 87-year-old woman returning home from church in Jersey City was viciously beaten and robbed Saturday, left disoriented and bloodied with a swollen eye, police said.Photo Credit: Handout/News 4 NY
  
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• Former Troy officer seeks to regain job

  29-01-2019 22:21 via timesunion.com
  TROY – Dominick Comitale reported for duty as a police officer Monday, 26 days after he resigned, in an apparent move as part of an effort to rescind his resignation he submitted when he faced an indictment and a hearing to fire him.Deputy Chief Dan DeWolf said Tuesday that Comitale appeared at police headquarters for work and they chatted before Comitale left.DeWolf said the department's command staff considers him to be off the job having resigned.DeWolf referred further questions about
  
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• Pol Overseeing MTA Hearing to Take Aim at High-Paid Execs

  29-01-2019 21:48 via nbcnewyork.com
  
  In an interview with News 4, Sen. Tim Kennedy said he plans to ask the MTA about its executives' high salaries.Photo Credit: Valeria Gonzalez
  
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• ‘Don’t Tip Immigrants’ Message Left on NJ Restaurant Receipt

  29-01-2019 21:46 via nbcnewyork.com
  
  A business owner in New Jersey is firing back at a pair of customers he says left an anti-immigration message on a receipt.Photo Credit: Santiago Aristides
  
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• With Percoco vote looming, old JCOPE commissioners are now new

  29-01-2019 20:15 via timesunion.com
  With a contentious vote looming on whether to investigate a former top aide to Gov. Andrew Cuomo, the Joint Commission on Public Ethics has become something of a game of musical chairs.Attending Tuesday's monthly JCOPE meeting were two new JCOPE commissioners – who also happened to be former JCOPE commissioners.The former longtime chairman of JCOPE, Daniel Horwitz, who had a reputation as a staunch Cuomo loyalist, had left the commission in Nov. 2016. But he has now been reappointed by the
  
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• ICE funds targeted to help immigrants detained and in community

  29-01-2019 20:15 via timesunion.com
  ALBANY — A legal aid organization is expected to oversee and implement a plan to use grant funding to help immigrants in the Albany County Jail and in the communityThe funding will come from federal immigration authorities. Last year, the county received close to $5 million from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) for housing hundreds of migrants who were transferred to the Colonie jail after crossing the U.S.-Mexico border to seek asylum. The detainees came from 27 countries an
  
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• Latest Radar: Watch StormTracker 4 as Next Winter Storm Hits

  29-01-2019 20:13 via nbcnewyork.com
  
  Storm Team 4 is tracking yet another complex weather system that is expected to dump a combination of rain and snow on a large swath of the tri-state area Tuesday ahead of an arctic blast that will send...
  
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• Siena men's basketball not resting on defense

  29-01-2019 19:50 via timesunion.com
  The Saints (9-11 overall, 4-3 MAAC) lead the Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference in league games with a 41.9 field goal percentage defense and 26.0 3-point percentage defense heading into Thursday night's contest at Monmouth.What a turnaround from nonleague play, when the Saints allowed foes to shoot 50 percent or better in eight consecutive games as Siena's players struggled to get the hang of the intricacies of the matchup zone."The level of trust from our guys has grown and they kind of know w
  
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• AAA Offers Tips and Tricks for Vehicle Winter Care

  29-01-2019 19:46 via nbcnewyork.com
  
  With another winter storm expected to hit the tri-state area Tuesday, just ahead of a dangerous arctic blast that will send temperatures into the teens, measures should be taken to remain safe -- this also...Photo Credit: 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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• UAlbany student photo group defends its darkroom, studio

  29-01-2019 19:41 via timesunion.com
  The University at Albany's student photo service has, for now, avoided a forced move from the organization's longtime office, studio and darkroom. But they're still facing a battle to maintain their spot in the campus' Student Center. Known as the University Photo Service, the club has documented life on the campus for more than 50 years. Now, members argue that their role is even more important since UAlbany, like a growing number of colleges, no longer has annual yearbooks, which have instead
  
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• New York’s Depression Era Foodways

  29-01-2019 19:26 via nytimes.com
  Unpublished photographs from the Federal Writers’ Project are on display at the Municipal Archives.
  
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• 'All Hell Broke Loose': Brawl Erupts at NY School Ball Game

  29-01-2019 18:53 via nbcnewyork.com
  
  A wild brawl erupted at a high school basketball game on Long Island Monday night, with nearly two dozen people swarming the court and prompting a flurry of 911 calls, authorities and witnesses say.Photo Credit: Handout
  
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• Did You Hear It? Mystery Boom Rattles South Philly, NJ

  29-01-2019 18:52 via nbcnewyork.com
  
  A mysterious loud noise shook some people in Philadelphia from their sleep early Tuesday.Photo Credit: NBC10
  
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• RIISE playground project meeting postponed

  29-01-2019 18:27 via timesunion.com
  The RISSE Together Playground Project meeting that was planned for 5:30 p.m. today at the RISSE at 240 West Lawrence Street has been postponed due to the weather
  
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• Jail smuggling case kiss of 'Death,' sheriff says

  29-01-2019 18:13 via timesunion.com
  COLONIE – An Albany County jail inmate has been charged with possessing several bags of heroin -- and police say it is consistent with the "Grey Death" variety of the drug responsible for an inmate's fatal overdose in December.The inmate, Kirsten L Garner, was charged with first-degree promotion of prison contraband, a felony which carries up to seven years in prison. She was also charged with misdemeanor drug possession and with possessing marijuana, Sheriff Craig Apple announced in a new
  
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• Young Mom Holding Baby in Stroller Dies in Subway Stair Fall

  29-01-2019 18:10 via nbcnewyork.com
  
  A mother from Connecticut is dead after she somehow fell down the stairs at a subway station in Manhattan while holding her baby secured in her stroller, police say.Photo Credit: News 4
  
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• WalletHub: Immigrants Boost New York, New Jersey Economies

  29-01-2019 18:08 via nbcnewyork.com
  
  Though immigration is a hot topic in the current political state of affairs, immigration as a whole continues to impact the economy and, according to a recent study, a couple of local state economies are...Photo Credit: Getty Images
  
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• Tax breaks sought on Green Island project

  29-01-2019 18:08 via timesunion.com
  Green IslandDevelopers of a marina, housing and entertainment project on a former oil tank farm on the Hudson River are seeking about $22 million in tax breaks through the Green Island Village Industrial Development Agency.Peter Luizzi & Bros. Contracting of Albany is currently building the $76 million project on the southern tip of Center Island, an island between Green Island and Troy.Located south of the Green Island Bridge, the 11.2-acre site was once home to King Fuels, which closed in
  
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• Nauman Hussain served with lawsuit by limo victim's family

  29-01-2019 17:33 via timesunion.com
  SCHOHARIE - Nauman Hussain, who has already been charged with criminally-negligent homicide in connection with the Oct. 6 limo crash in Schoharie County that killed 20 people, was served today with the first civil lawsuit brought by the family of one of the victims.Albany attorney Sal Ferlazzo, who is representing the family of Amanda Rivenburg, said he had a paralegal in his office personally serve Nauman Hussain at the Schoharie County Courthouse Tuesday morning.
  
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• Boy, 14, Arrested After Brawl Breaks Out at Basketball Game

  29-01-2019 17:30 via nbcnewyork.com
  
  A 14-year-old boy was arrested after a brawl broke out at a high school basketball game, police said.Photo Credit: Pexels
  
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• Activists push reforms as lawmakers discuss public safety

  29-01-2019 17:28 via timesunion.com
  ALBANY — Advocates pushed for broad criminal justice reforms at the Capitol on Tuesday as the Senate and Assembly held a joint budget hearing on public protection.With Democrats controlling both houses of the Legislature, criminal justice reformers are optimistic that the legislative session underway will bring sweeping change to the state's criminal justice system.A group of lawmakers and activists pushing for parole reform held a protest on the Million Dollar Staircase at the Capitol, pu
  
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• US Light Energy signs North Country solar deal

  29-01-2019 17:17 via timesunion.com
  COLONIE - US Light Energy, a solar farm development firm based in Latham, has been selected by the Tri-County Energy Cooperative to build 16 megawatts of solar generation in the North Country.
  
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• Listen Up: Woman's Elevator Nightmare, Couch in Tree and El Chapo Smile

  29-01-2019 16:45 via nbcnewyork.com
  
  Find out more about the woman who was stuck in an NYC elevator for three days, the couch that appeared in a UWS tree and an actor who stopped by the El Chapo trial in this Jan. 29 edition of Listen Up.
  
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• Gun control package part of 'ongoing crusade"

  29-01-2019 16:23 via timesunion.com
  ALBANY - The first major batch of gun control measures since the passage of the SAFE Act six years ago are scheduled for a vote in both house of the state Legislature later today.The actions are part of an "ongoing crusade," according to Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo, who rallied Tuesday morning with gun control advocates in the Capitol.
  
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• Cuomo calls gun safety an 'ongoing crusade"

  29-01-2019 16:23 via timesunion.com
  ALBANY - The first major batch of gun control measures since the passage of the SAFE Act six years ago are scheduled for a vote in both house of the state Legislature later today.The actions are part of an "ongoing crusade," according to Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo, who rallied Tuesday morning with gun control advocates in the Capitol.
  
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• Stewart-Cousins pledges 'intelligence and integrity'

  29-01-2019 16:08 via timesunion.com
  ALBANY — Senate Majority Leader Andrea Stewart-Cousins is presiding over what some observers are calling the most productive Senate session on record, as her 39-member Democratic conference rapidly rolls through legislation that had stalled for years when Republicans controlled the chamber.But Stewart-Cousins said she had noticed signs of change in Albany long before last year's "blue wave" election enabled Democrats to claim eight seats in the historically GOP state Senate, granting Democ
  
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• Mac-n-Cheese Bowl looking for some cooks; tickets on sale

  29-01-2019 15:54 via timesunion.com
  From the Table Hopping blog:I'm now accepting recipes from readers who wish to be considered for inclusion in the home-cooks and kid-cooks portion of the 10th annual timesunion.com/Table Hopping Mac-n-Cheese Bowl, which raises money for the Regional Food Bank of Northeastern New York.It will be from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday, March 2, at the Marcelle Athletic Complex at Siena College in Loudonville, serendipitously known as the MAC. The fundraiser features about 30 area restaurants offering var
  
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• Target Hiring Workers for New Store on Manhattan's East Side

  29-01-2019 15:45 via nbcnewyork.com
  
  Target is opening another store in Manhattan — and it’s hiring dozens of employees.
  
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• A Mother’s Fatal Fall on Subway Stairs Rouses New Yorkers to Demand Accessibility

  29-01-2019 15:27 via nytimes.com
  Malaysia Goodson, 22, tumbled down the steps at a subway station while carrying her baby in a stroller. Her 1-year-old daughter survived the fall.
  
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• Man Arrested in Wild Tantrum on Top of Car in NYC Traffic

  29-01-2019 14:38 via nbcnewyork.com
  
  A 25-year-old man has been arrested in connection with a wild tantrum on top of a ride-share car as it sat in midtown Manhattan traffic one Friday afternoon earlier this month.Photo Credit: NYPD
  
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• Teens Taunting Couple in McD's Attack Good Samaritan: Cops

  29-01-2019 13:59 via nbcnewyork.com
  
  Cops are looking for three teenagers they say attacked a good Samaritan who tried to stop them from harassing an elderly couple in a Manhattan McDonald's last month.Photo Credit: Handout
  
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• The L Train Will Stay Open. So What Happens to All Those Plan B’s?

  29-01-2019 13:48 via nytimes.com
  Even with no shutdown, many still want new bike lanes, more bus and ferry service, and car restrictions. Critics of the plans say that could hurt their neighborhoods.
  
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• Rain or Snow? Both? What to Expect From Tuesday's Storm

  29-01-2019 13:38 via nbcnewyork.com
  
  Storm Team 4 is tracking yet another complex weather system that is expected to dump a combination of rain and snow on a large swath of the tri-state area Tuesday ahead of an arctic blast that will send...Photo Credit: 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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• NTSB in court as Schoharie County judge seeks to end limo standoff

  29-01-2019 13:17 via timesunion.com
  SCHOHARIE (AP) — Federal safety inspectors are going to court to remove a roadblock in their investigation of a limousine crash that killed 20 people nearly four months ago.Schoharie County Judge George Bartlett will hear arguments Tuesday over National Transportation Safety Board access to the limousine that crashed Oct. 6 in rural Schoharie. He scheduled the hearing after a sometimes testy series of letters between the court, the NTSB and Schoharie County District Attorney Susan Mallery
  
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• NTSB gets access to limo in deadly crash

  29-01-2019 13:17 via timesunion.com
  SCHOHARIE - The National Transportation Safety Board will be given access to the limousine involved in the Oct. 6 crash that killed 20 peopleSchoharie County District Attorney Susan Mallery and the NTSB reached agreement after appearances Tuesday in county court.Mallery and lawyers for the NTSB have sparred for months over whether the federal agency would get to examine the vehicle. The arguments ended in court Tuesday morning.State Supreme Court Judge George Bartlett III held a hearing to 
  
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• Storm expected to intensify Tuesday evening

  29-01-2019 12:57 via timesunion.com
  ALBANY — The difference between Tuesday's snowstorm and the one from just ten days earlier is about a foot of snowfall, but the message from officials is the same — stay off the roads and be prepared.Towns and schools heeded the warning, a number of area school districts closing early Tuesday and communities declaring snow emergencies in preparation for the clean up.
  
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• Snow could make for treacherous afternoon commute

  29-01-2019 12:57 via timesunion.com
  ALBANY - A snowstorm expected to hit the Capital Region on Tuesday could make driving difficult during the afternoon, forecasters said.Up to 8 inches of snow could fall. At points, up to an inch an hours could drop from the sky. Meteorologists say the worst of the storm could be over the region during the evening commute and visibility could be minimal during the heaviest periods of snow.
  
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• More schools closing early, watch for treacherous commute

  29-01-2019 12:57 via timesunion.com
  ALBANY - A snowstorm already hitting parts of the Capital Region on Tuesday could make driving difficult, forecasters said.A number of area school districts, including Berne-Knox-Westerlo, Corinth and Duanesburg, are closing early.SEE THE LIST OF CLOSINGS AND DELAYS
  
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• Happening Today: Stone, FaceTime, Opioids, 'Black Panther'

  29-01-2019 12:44 via nbcnewyork.com
  
  Here's what to know for Tuesday, Jan. 29.Photo Credit: Richard Shotwell/Invision/AP
  
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• One-day postponement in court case for Albany cop

  29-01-2019 12:40 via timesunion.com
  UTICA - A court appearance for Albany Police Officer Christofer M. Kitto, the patrolman who was allegedly with a prostitute when he shot and killed a man who tried to rob him with a knife earlier this month in Utica, was postponed until Wednesday.Kitto, who faces a charge of patronizing a prostitute, was expected to appear in Utica City Court Tuesday morning. But prosecutors said a judge postponed the appearance by a day amid concern the officer's lawyer raised about Tuesday's pending snowstorm.
  
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• N.Y. Today: Sexual Harassment Scandal at City Hall

  29-01-2019 12:08 via nytimes.com
  A top aide was fired from a job in Washington for harassment. Then City Hall hired him.
  
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• Mom Holding Baby in Stroller Dies in Subway Stair Fall: NYPD

  29-01-2019 11:47 via nbcnewyork.com
  
  A mother from Connecticut is dead after she somehow fell down the stairs at a subway station in Manhattan while holding her baby secured in her stroller, police say.Photo Credit: News 4
  
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• Hundreds Left in Dark, Cold After Queens Manhole Fire: FDNY

  29-01-2019 11:32 via nbcnewyork.com
  
  Hundreds of apartments in Queens went dark and cold after something sparked a manhole fire.Photo Credit: News 4
  
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• Woman Holding Stroller With Baby Dies in Subway Stair Fall

  29-01-2019 10:29 via nbcnewyork.com
  
  A mother from Connecticut is dead after she somehow fell down the stairs at a subway station in Manhattan with her baby’s stroller in her hands, police say.Photo Credit: News 4
  
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