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• What People Are Saying About Amazon’s Breakup With New York City

  14-02-2019 23:34 via nytimes.com
  Almost everyone had an opinion on the company’s reversal on a second headquarters in Queens.
  
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• Weed ‘Gummy Bear’ Sends 14-Year-Old to Hospital in NJ: Cops

  14-02-2019 23:23 via nbcnewyork.com
  
  A 14-year-old girl in New Jersey was hospitalized after a classmate gave her a marijuana "gummy bear" that made her ill, cops say.Photo Credit: Pexels/CC
  
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• Neighbors wait for details of Academy expansion

  14-02-2019 23:22 via timesunion.com
  The $39.4 million project to expand the Albany Training Academy on New Scotland Road will be the topic of a meeting with Normans Kill neighborhood residents sometime next month. In the meantime, the Department of Corrections and Community Supervision has been mum on specifics of the project, which will include dormitories for prison guard recruits, plus alterations to its arsenal and a new gymnasium.
  
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• Neighbors to get update on training academy expansion

  14-02-2019 23:22 via timesunion.com
  The state Department of Corrections and Community Supervision will give residents in the Normans Kill neighborhood an update on its plans to expand the Albany Training Academy during a meeting from 6:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. Wednesday, March 27, at Martel's Restaurant at Capital Hills Golf Course, 65 O'Neil Road, Albany.
  
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• Albany County sees surge of organ donors

  14-02-2019 23:13 via timesunion.com
  Albany County set a goal last April to get 500 residents to sign up to become organ donors by the end of the year.
  
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• Parkland Victim's Dad Creates Mural Pushing for Gun Reform

  14-02-2019 23:12 via nbcnewyork.com
  
  An artist whose son was killed during the mass shooting in Parkland, Florida last year has created a mural in Manhattan to honor the victims.Photo Credit: News 4
  
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• Bank receives $2m for affordable housing

  14-02-2019 22:57 via timesunion.com
  AlbanyM&T Bank has received more than $2 million in federal grants to support affordable housing projects in Schenectady, Troy and Albany.Funds from the Federal Home Loan Bank of New York Affordable Housing Program will provide $2 million for an 85-unit project in Schenectady's Hamilton Hill neighborhood, and $90,000 for construction of six townhomes by Capital District Habitat for Humanity in Albany and Troy.
  
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• Amazon to New York: Fuhgeddaboudit!

  14-02-2019 22:57 via nytimes.com
  Readers are split over Amazon’s change of plan for its HQ2.
  
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• Sweet Reunion: NYPD Recovers Woman's Engagement Ring

  14-02-2019 22:13 via nbcnewyork.com
  
  It is a sweet Valentine's Day for one woman thanks to the NYPD.Photo Credit: NYPDThis story uses functionality that may not work in our app. Click here to open the story in your web browser.
  
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• City seeks to repair, reopen South Troy Pool by summer

  14-02-2019 22:12 via timesunion.com
  TROY – The dormant South Troy Pool will be reopened July 1 if the city can secure a contractor willing to take on an aggressive renovation schedule that would get neighborhood kids back in the water for the summer swimming season, Mayor Patrick Madden said.The City Council approved a capital budget that includes $6.3 million to restore the South Troy Pool and the Knickerbackeer Park Pool in Lansingburgh.It's estimated that it will take just $1.4 million to repair the South Troy Pool, while
  
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• Anti-abortion group assails Cuomo with grisly street theater

  14-02-2019 22:02 via timesunion.com
  ALBANY — It was not a common sight, even at the state Capitol: A man dressed as Jesus lugging a cross as he's whipped by another performer portraying Gov. Andrew Cuomo while a third man, dressed as Satan, howls his approval.The lurid scene was enacted multiple times in Schenectady and Albany on Thursday as the anti-abortion activist Randall Terry swung through the region to demonstrate against the recent passage of the Reproductive Health Act, which codifies Roe v. Wade in state law.
  
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• NYPD: School Bus Hits, Kills 68-Year-Old Woman in Hit-Run

  14-02-2019 21:34 via nbcnewyork.com
  
  Police are investigating an apparent hit-and-run in the Bronx involving a school bus they say hit and killed a 68-year-old woman Thursday morning.Photo Credit: NBC 4 New York
  
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• Sheriff Russo seeks re-election while Democrats can't find foe

  14-02-2019 21:13 via timesunion.com
  TROY – Rensselaer County Sheriff Patrick Russo stood behind President Donald Trump at a White House forum and shook hands with Vice President Mike Pence last year as he stood out as the state's lone sheriff to agree to work under a controversial federal immigration statute.Russo officially announced his re-election bid for a second four-year term Wednesday with a low-key press release that barely touched upon his office's participation in the the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement 28
  
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• Albany man, woman arrested after drug sales probe

  14-02-2019 21:01 via timesunion.com
  Two city residents face charges after an two-month investigation into drug sales, Albany County Sheriff Craig D. Apple Sr. said Thursday.Investigators arrested Aaron M. Twiggs, 31, and CatherineKarczewski, 43, after learning that Twiggs was selling drugs from his Grant Avenue home, Apple said. While using a warrant, police found over 25 grams of cocaine, over 50 grams of marijuana, a digital scale and packaging materials.
  
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• MTA Declares Love for Riders, Finds Its Feelings Unrequited

  14-02-2019 20:32 via nbcnewyork.com
  
  The MTA boldly declared its love for commuters in a Valentine’s Day message on Twitter — only to have its feelings crushed by riders who didn’t return the sentiment.Photo Credit: Twitter/NYCTSubwayThis story uses functionality that may not work in our app. Click here to open the story in your web browser.
  
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• Report Finds Stunning Number of Cancer Diagnoses in NYC

  14-02-2019 20:13 via nbcnewyork.com
  
  A new report released Thursday by the American Cancer Society Action Network reveals that more than 40,000 New Yorkers have been diagnosed with cancer every year between 2011 and 2015.Photo Credit: Pexels/CC
  
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• Poll: A year after Parkland shooting, some urgency has faded

  14-02-2019 19:55 via timesunion.com
  Americans still want tougher gun laws but there is less urgency a year after the Parkland high school shooting, according to a poll released Thursday.
  
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• Microsoft: New York has less broadband than feds claim

  14-02-2019 19:40 via timesunion.com
  AlbanyA lot fewer New Yorkers have access to high-speed internet than the federal government is reporting, according to a recent study by tech giant Microsoft.Figures released last year by the Federal Communications Commission estimated that about 394,000 residents in a state of 19.8 million people had no access to high-speed, but Microsoft recently estimated that figure much, much higher at more than 8.7 million people."There is strong evidence that the percentage of Americans without broadband
  
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• Real Estate Investor's Booby-Trapped Home Nightmare Goes Viral

  14-02-2019 19:12 via nbcnewyork.com
  
  A team of Philadelphia real estate investors was lucky to avoid what could have been a tragedy after coming across a stairway booby-trapped with a swinging knife.
  
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• Be Still My Heart: Romance Scams Up 147 Percent in 3 Years

  14-02-2019 18:55 via nbcnewyork.com
  
  Romance-related scams have skyrocketed in the last year, generating more losses than any other fraud reported, the Federal Trade Commission reveals.Photo Credit: Pexels/CC
  
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• Judge tells prosecutors evidence shy in church theft case, lawyer says

  14-02-2019 18:41 via timesunion.com
  COLONIE — Town police thought they made quick work of the theft of $1,642 from a Central Avenue church.But a judge didn't feel the same way.Town Justice Peter Crummey dismissed burglary and grand larceny charges against 74-year-old Robert Hoag Wednesday night after ruling that prosecutors did not present enough evidence to support allegations Hoag broke into the Victory Colonie Church on Sunday, Albany County Assistant Public Defender Beau Melita said.
  
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• Arundhati Roy to Headline the 2019 PEN World Voices Festival

  14-02-2019 18:00 via nytimes.com
  Dave Eggers, Joyce Carol Oates and others will also take part in the festival, whose theme is the narrowing gap between public and private life.
  
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• Espey's second quarter earnings down 86 percent

  14-02-2019 17:59 via timesunion.com
  Espey Manufacturing and Electronic Corp. announced Wednesday that its second quarter income was $217,758, down from a net income of $1.6 million during the same period last year — an 86 percent decrease.
  
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• Man Admits Plans to Kill Toddler He Sexually Abused, Others

  14-02-2019 17:56 via nbcnewyork.com
  
  An MS-13 member who stabbed two women and sexually assaulted a 2-year-old girl during a five-hour crime spree has pleaded guilty to the charges, prosecutors said.Photo Credit: Nassau County District Attorney's Office
  
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• Colonie Town Board member Jennifer Whalen running for Albany County Legislature

  14-02-2019 17:48 via timesunion.com
  Colonie Town Board member Jennifer Whalen is running for the open 21st District seat on the Albany County Legislature to be vacated by Brian Hogan, a fellow Republican who is retiring.
  
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• Amazon Pulls Out of Planned New York City Headquarters

  14-02-2019 17:43 via nytimes.com
  Amazon’s plan to build a sprawling complex in Queens in return for nearly for $3 billion in government incentives had come under fierce opposition from local lawmakers.
  
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• NYPD: School Bus Hits 'Elderly' Woman, Takes Off

  14-02-2019 17:27 via nbcnewyork.com
  
  Police are investigating an apparent hit-and-run in the Bronx involving a school bus they say hit a woman and took off Thursday morning.Photo Credit: NBC 4 New York
  
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• Child Victims Act signed into law

  14-02-2019 17:10 via timesunion.com
  ALBANY — Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo signed New York's Child Victims Act into law on Thursday, extending the statute of limitation for victims of childhood abuse who pursue civil and criminal charges against their perpetrators.The bill signing took place in the New York Daily News' Manhattan newsroom. The New York City tabloid had crusaded for child victims and their advocates for years, shaming lawmakers and opponents to the bill on its front cover and in editorial pages as the bill stalled in t
  
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• Man sexually assaulted by priest he met in Troy to sue clerics group

  14-02-2019 16:35 via timesunion.com
  Mark Lyman, a local man who was sexually assaulted by a Catholic priest when he was a boy, will be among agroup of people filing a lawsuit against an organization of priests and religious brothers, alleging the group concealed the "histories and identities" of clerics who abused children.The filing of the lawsuit against the Catholic Conference of Major Superiors of Men on Thursday coincides with Gov. Andrew Cuomo's signing of the Crime Victims Act.The legislation passed last month sets a one-ye
  
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• Listen Up: L Train Update, Free Valentine's Pizza, Local Hot Spots

  14-02-2019 16:26 via nbcnewyork.com
  
  Find out more about the latest L train news, Pasquale Jones' free Valentine's pizza and more local hot spots in this Feb. 14 edition of Listen Up.Photo Credit: WNBC
  
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• EPA lays out plan to regulate PFOA in drinking water

  14-02-2019 16:11 via timesunion.com
  ALBANY - An action plan unveiled by federal officials on Thursday proposes setting national limits on PFOA and PFOS in drinking water by the end of the year.The announcement from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, which promises short- and long-term solutions to the health risks of these toxic chemicals, was greeted with skepticism from the environmental community. In New York, an advisory panel proposed nation-leading limits and advocates are urging state officials to impose the recommen
  
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• Morgan Library & Museum Announces $12.5 Million Exterior Renovation

  14-02-2019 15:00 via nytimes.com
  After spending millions working to renovate and expand the complex’s interior, the Morgan shifts to revamp the historic library’s facade.
  
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• Inmate dies in Greene County prison

  14-02-2019 14:46 via timesunion.com
  The state Department of Corrections and Community Supervision is investigating after an inmate died at Greene Correctional Facility.Anthony Myrie, 24, died on Monday, according to DOCCS website.
  
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• Jarring Footage Shows Stranger Attack NY Woman With Bat

  14-02-2019 14:01 via nbcnewyork.com
  
  Cops are looking for a stranger in connection with a brutal bat attack on a woman in her own Long Island front yard last year.Photo Credit: SCPD
  
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• 2 charged with drug crimes in Malta

  14-02-2019 13:55 via timesunion.com
  State Police charged two men with multiple drug crimes on Tuesday.Police did not provide many details on the circumstances surrounding the arrests.
  
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• State Police charge 6 in Fultonville drug raid

  14-02-2019 13:39 via timesunion.com
  State Police said they charged six people after an early morning raid at a home on Montgomery Street on Feb. 11.
  
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• Boy Stabbed to Death by NYC Bodega, Just Blocks From Home

  14-02-2019 13:25 via nbcnewyork.com
  
  A teenager was stabbed to death by a Bronx bodega Wednesday evening and the killer is still on the run, police say.Photo Credit: Stringr.com
  
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• Happening Today: Paul Manafort, Border, Romaine, Ryan Adams

  14-02-2019 12:47 via nbcnewyork.com
  
  Here's what to know for Thursday, Feb. 14.Photo Credit: AP/File
  
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• Schalmont schools delayed by burst pipe in Rotterdam

  14-02-2019 12:35 via timesunion.com
  ROTTERDAM - The Schalmont Central School District is delaying the start of classes while town work crews try to repair a burst water main that cut service early Thursday service to homes and businesses near town hall.The water main break is on Sunrise Boulevard and crews have been at the scene for hours.Town officials say the loss of water service will continue well into the morning.
  
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• N.Y. Today: A ‘Friendly Fire’ Tragedy

  14-02-2019 12:01 via nytimes.com
  The fatal shooting of a detective in Queens — 42 shots in 11 seconds — shows the devastating impact.
  
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• The Ocasio-Cortez Effect: Wave of Challenges Hits Entrenched N.Y. Democrats

  14-02-2019 11:00 via nytimes.com
  As many as six House challenges are in the works, in a possible echo of the divisions roiling the 2020 presidential primary. Insurgents are inspired by Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.
  
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• Reconciling Asian-American Identity Within Transracial Adoptions

  14-02-2019 10:00 via nytimes.com
  Mengwen Cao photographed and interviewed New Yorkers who were adopted from Asia and grew up in white families.
  
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• Teen Boy Stabbed, Killed on Bronx Street; No Arrests: Police

  14-02-2019 08:18 via nbcnewyork.com
  
  A teenager was stabbed and killed in the Bronx and the killer is still on the run, police say.Photo Credit: Stringr.com
  
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• Listen Up: A Closer Look at Top Stories for Feb. 14

  14-02-2019 07:39 via nbcnewyork.com
  
  Get a closer look at the top stories for Thursday, Feb. 14.
  
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• Man Getting Into Back of SUV Executed by Masked Gunman: NYPD

  14-02-2019 06:32 via nbcnewyork.com
  
  A man was fatally shot by someone at close range as he was about to get into the back of a car in Queens early Tuesday, and police are searching for his killer.Photo Credit: NYPD
  
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• Man Arrested for Beating Puppy in Westchester

  14-02-2019 03:29 via nbcnewyork.com
  
  Adam Jeffers from Ossining, NY has been arrested for injuring 7-month-old terrier puppy, Ocho.
  
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• Man Ambushed, Shot and Killed While Getting into Car: NYPD

  14-02-2019 03:17 via nbcnewyork.com
  
  A man was fatally shot by someone at close range as he was about to get into the back of a car in Queens early Tuesday, and police are searching for his killer.Photo Credit: NYPD
  
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• Fed Housing Official Calls NYCHA Condition Inhumane

  14-02-2019 03:17 via nbcnewyork.com
  
  Lynne Patton, the federal government's top housing official in the region, is getting a firsthand look at problems NYCHA residents deal with every day. She calls the conditions "inhumane." Ida...
  
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• CBA basketball hands Bethlehem its first loss

  14-02-2019 03:17 via timesunion.com
  Bethlehem landed the No. 1 seed for the 2019 Section II Class AA boys' basketball tournament Wednesday afternoon. In the evening, Christian Brothers Academy spoiled the Eagles' shot at entering the playoffs with a 20-0 record by earning a 65-54 Suburban Council road win.
  
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• Latham tattoo removal business puts twist on Valentine's Day

  14-02-2019 03:04 via timesunion.com
  COLONIE — Valentine's day: A holiday filled with heart-shaped boxes of decadent chocolate, handwritten mushy poems, dates by candlelight and professions of love.That's not the case for everyone. Some just want to forget about the day — and their old flames that they may have spent it with.Well, a tattoo removal company with a location in Latham is hoping to help with that.Invisible Ink Tattoo Removers is offering a deal for people who want to permanently get their exes off their back
  
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