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• Queen Latifah to Build Affordable Housing in NJ: Report

  21-02-2019 23:35 via nbcnewyork.com
  
  Actress and hip hop artist Queen Latifah is headed back to her New Jersey roots, according to a published report.Photo Credit: AP
  
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• Photos: Albany cathedral 'in bloom'

  21-02-2019 23:27 via timesunion.com
  ALBANY — Local florists have transformed the nation's first Episcopal cathedral into a breathtaking blooming display.
  
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• Walsh running for second judicial term in Rensselaer County

  21-02-2019 23:23 via timesunion.com
  TROY – Rensselaer County Family Court Judge Beth Walsh announced Thursday she is running for re-election to a second 10-year term.
  
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• A Times Square Billboard Hits Ocasio-Cortez on Amazon. She Hits Back.

  21-02-2019 22:32 via nytimes.com
  A billboard blamed Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez for Amazon’s decision to exit New York; she blamed wealthy right-wing types for the ad.
  
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• Schumer sounds off on Gannett hostile takeover bid

  21-02-2019 22:27 via timesunion.com
  WASHINGTON _ Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer entered the fray involving an investment firm known as the “Destroyer of Newspapers” and its hostile attempt to buy upstate media giant Gannett Co.“While the acquisition and 'streamlining' of Gannett newspapers might increase short-term profits … the long-term impact of liquidating these newspapers would be incalculable to my constituents,” Schumer wrote in a letter Thursday to Heath Freeman, president of New Y
  
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• Five years later, little apparent movement on high-speed rail

  21-02-2019 22:20 via timesunion.com
  More than 125 years ago, the Empire State Express set a land speed record on a stretch of track in western New York of 112.5 mph, a record that lasted for a decade.Today, Amtrak trains travel no faster than 79 mph along the same route, and an effort to develop a near high-speed service along New York's Empire Corridor appears to be stalled.
  
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• State building aid plan could dent some school budgets

  21-02-2019 22:19 via timesunion.com
  A proposal to change the building aid part of the package, which reimburses schools for construction and renovation projects, could be particularly costly to some wealthy suburban districts including Saratoga Springs.
  
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• Albany airport to install solar array

  21-02-2019 21:57 via timesunion.com
  The airport authority will be placing a solar array in its terminal-area long term parking lot, which will shelter vehicles from the elements while generating power for nearby electric vehicle charging stations and garage and terminal lighting.
  
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• Stillwater town board to vote on $37K stipend for councilwoman

  21-02-2019 21:43 via timesunion.com
  STILLWATER – A town councilwoman is expected to receive $720 a week or $37,440 a year stipend to head up the town's administration, promotions and public relations standing committee.Lisa Bruno was appointed to the committee at the town's reorganizational meeting on Jan. 17. On Thursday night, a resolution is expected to lock in her proposed stipend, which Bruno will earn by assisting Supervisor Ed Kinowski "with programs, grants, state legislator coordination and administration."
  
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• Stillwater board OKs $37,000 stipend for councilwoman

  21-02-2019 21:43 via timesunion.com
  STILLWATER – The town board voted Thursday to pay a town councilwoman $720 a week, or $37,440 a year, to head up the town's administration, promotions and public relations standing committee.
  
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• Grand jury indicts Troy official over land sale

  21-02-2019 21:27 via timesunion.com
  TROY — A Rensselaer County grand jury indicted a city code enforcement officer and an unidentified co-defendant Thursday after the state attorney general's Public Integrity Unit investigated the city's sale of a wooded lot to a former city engineer.James E. Lance III was indicted on five counts, while the unnamed defendant in a sealed indictment faces six counts, according to the indictment. Lance was indicted on his 35th birthday.The indictments arose from documents filed with the city on
  
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• Baby OK After Stroller Rolls Onto Subway Tracks: Sources

  21-02-2019 21:26 via nbcnewyork.com
  
  An 8-month-old baby was left with a bump on her head after her stroller rolled off a subway platform and onto the train tracks, law enforcement sources said.Photo Credit: Valeria Gonzalez
  
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• The Decriminalization of Black Hair

  21-02-2019 21:25 via nytimes.com
  New York City’s new ban on discriminating against hairstyle reveals how little African-Americans have benefited from supposedly relaxed work cultures.
  
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• Latina Suicide Prevention Program Opens Center in Manhattan

  21-02-2019 21:15 via nbcnewyork.com
  
  An organization that aims to prevent suicide among young Latinas — the teen population with the highest suicide rate in New York City — is opening its first center in Manhattan.Photo Credit: Telemundo 47
  
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• Veteran GOP politician Scaringe challenges Mahan for Colonie Supervisor

  21-02-2019 21:07 via timesunion.com
  George Scaringe, a veteran of local Republican politics for more than four decades, will challenge incumbent Supervisor Paula Mahan, a Democrat, in this year's election.
  
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• Jumaane Williams for Public Advocate

  21-02-2019 21:06 via nytimes.com
  Vote on Tuesday, Feb. 26.
  
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• IBM responsible for 60 of 326 new jobs at new AI center

  21-02-2019 20:51 via timesunion.com
  ALBANY - IBM is only required to create 60 new jobs at the $300 million artificial intelligence lab being funded by the state at SUNY Polytechnic Institute in Albany.Of the 326 new jobs to be created at the IBM Research AI Hardware Center, 66 will be SUNY positions, while 200 will come from "partner companies" that participate in the lab. IBM, which currently has 300 employees at SUNY Poly, is responsible for 60 new jobs.
  
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• Mother Recounts Trying to Save Young Son Impaled by Glass

  21-02-2019 20:24 via nbcnewyork.com
  
  Adrian Ortega, 4, suffered a fatal wound from the piece of broken glass, which came from a large picture frame that had shattered inside his North Philadelphia home, his family said.Photo Credit: ProvidedThis story uses functionality that may not work in our app. Click here to open the story in your web browser.
  
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• Skip Parsons' jazz band parts ways with the Fountain

  21-02-2019 20:23 via timesunion.com
  After 48 years, Skip Parsons’ Riverboat Jazz Band – one of the region’s most enduring and popular ensembles -- has dropped its regular gig at the Fountain, the venerable restaurant on Albany’s New Scotland Avenue.
  
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• Pregnant Mom of 6 Killed in NY 7-Eleven Rampage Identified

  21-02-2019 20:22 via nbcnewyork.com
  
  A driver angry about being asked not to blow cigarette smoke in the direction of children outside a New York 7-Eleven allegedly plowed into a family, hitting six kids and killing their mother, who was pregnant...Photo Credit: News 4/Family Handout
  
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• Albany council to adopt resolution requesting permanent state aid for capital

  21-02-2019 20:05 via timesunion.com
  ALBANY - Common Council members are expected to pass a resolution Thursday evening calling on the state to provide $12.5 million in Capital City Funding.
  
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• Siena basketball coach remembers Senior Day snub

  21-02-2019 19:57 via timesunion.com
  Christian said he will play the four seniors and Bayer, a graduate student, though he's not sure who will start. Fisher and Degnan have started all season with Smithen a key cog off the bench. Bayer, a transfer from Syracuse, and walk-on Morastoni have seen little action.Christian doesn't want his players to have the experience he had under then-Mount St. Mary's coach Milan Brown."Senior Day has always been particularly important to me to make sure that I didn't do that to others,'' Christian sa
  
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• Troy man had 5 pounds of pot, Albany County deputies say

  21-02-2019 19:25 via timesunion.com
  A Troy man was charged with felony marijuana possession after an Albany County Sheriff deputies investigation.
  
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• Ex-NY Lieutenant Accused of Mowing Down Sergeant Over Ticket

  21-02-2019 19:08 via nbcnewyork.com
  
  A retired Suffolk County lieutenant is accused of running over a Nassau County officer in a hit-and-run incident that took place last week.Photo Credit: Handout
  
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• Husband Dies, Wife Hospitalized in NY Carbon Monoxide Case

  21-02-2019 18:53 via nbcnewyork.com
  
  Homicide detectives are investigating the death of a man in a Suffolk County residence due to carbon monoxide poisoning, police say.Photo Credit: Handout
  
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• 1 Dead, 1 Hospitalized in LI Carbon Monoxide Incident: Cops

  21-02-2019 18:27 via nbcnewyork.com
  
  Homicide detectives are investigating the death of a man in a Suffolk County residence due to carbon monoxide poisoning, police say.Photo Credit: NBC 4 New York
  
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• Mets star Noah Syndergaard catches massive fish

  21-02-2019 18:19 via timesunion.com
  Thor dropped the hammer on a monster fish of the Florida coast.Mets star pitcher Noah Syndergaard known by the Nordic nickname pulled up a goliath grouper on a charter trip, according to a video posted by the online fishing show BlacktipH.
  
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• Dropped Thermos Eyed in NYC Bus Crash That Killed 3

  21-02-2019 18:15 via nbcnewyork.com
  
  A bus crash that killed three people and injured 16 others in Queens in 2017 could have been caused by a Thermos that got lodged between the vehicle’s brake and accelerator pedals, officials say.Photo Credit: FDNY
  
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• Northway southbound closure planned for Friday

  21-02-2019 17:53 via timesunion.com
  The Department of Transportation says all lanes of the Northway will be briefly closed near Exit 4 early Friday morning.
  
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• 1 killed, 1 sickened by Legionnaire's at former Best Western

  21-02-2019 17:49 via timesunion.com
  One person died and another was sickened by Legionnaire's disease at an assisted living facility on Western Avenue that was the scene of prior outbreaks when it was a hotel, officials familiar with the matter said Thursday morning.The Albany County Department of Health confirmed Thursday that twoindividuals had fallen ill at the Promenade at University Place, formerly a Best Western Sovereign Hotel, at 1228 Western Ave.Officials who spoke on condition of anonymity said one of the residents died
  
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• 1 killed, 1 sickened after Legionnaires' outbreak at former Best Western

  21-02-2019 17:49 via timesunion.com
  One person died and another was sickened after a Legionnaires' disease outbreak at an assisted living facility on Western Avenue that was the scene of prior outbreaks when it was a hotel, officials familiar with the matter said Thursday morning.The Albany County Department of Health confirmed Thursday that twoindividuals had fallen ill at the Promenade at University Place, formerly a Best Western Sovereign Hotel, at 1228 Western Ave.Officials who spoke on condition of anonymity said one of the r
  
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• New York to Crack Down on City Workers Abusing Parking Privileges

  21-02-2019 17:27 via nytimes.com
  Mayor Bill de Blasio pushes measures to cut down parking placard abuse, but does little to address criticism over soaring placard numbers.
  
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• New York Says It Will Crack Down on City Workers Abusing Parking Privileges

  21-02-2019 17:27 via nytimes.com
  Mayor Bill de Blasio pushes measures to cut down parking placard abuse, but does little to address criticism over soaring placard numbers.
  
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• NYC Bill Proposes Ban on Cashless Stores, Restaurants

  21-02-2019 16:42 via nbcnewyork.com
  
  Supporters of a new bill want to make sure New Yorkers are able to keep paying cash at their local stores.The New York City Council held a hearing last week on the bill that proposes to ban stores and...Photo Credit: Getty Images
  
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• Listen Up: MTA Bus Race, Legal Oscar Bets and a Winter Rooftop Spa

  21-02-2019 15:40 via nbcnewyork.com
  
  Find out more about the commute race between the M14 bus and pedestrians, NJ legalizing Oscar bets and a winter rooftop spa in this Feb. 21 edition of Listen Up.Photo Credit: Matt Sayles/Invision/AP
  
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• Video of Woman Throwing Dogs at Trampoline Sparks Investigation

  21-02-2019 15:26 via nbcnewyork.com
  
  A Snapchat video of a woman throwing dogs at a trampoline sparked a police investigation. We spoke with the person who reported the video.
  
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• Syracuse coach Boeheim strikes, kills pedestrian on highway

  21-02-2019 15:26 via timesunion.com
  SYRACUSE — Syracuse men's basketball coach Jim Boeheim struck and killed a man walking on an interstate late Wednesday night as he tried to avoid hitting the man's disabled vehicle, police say.Syracuse police say 51-year-old Jorge Jimenez had been in a car with three others before midnight Wednesday when their vehicle crashed into a guardrail on I-690 in Syracuse.
  
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• Report: Syracuse coach Boeheim struck, killed man walking on I-690

  21-02-2019 15:26 via timesunion.com
  Syracuse men's basketball coach Jim Boeheim struck and killed a man walking outside his vehicle on Interstate 690 in Syracuse early Thursday, according to Syracuse.com / The Post-Standard.Quoting a source familiar with the investigation, Syracuse.com said the victim, a man in his 30s, had been in a car with four others when their vehicle crashed for unknown reasons.
  
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• Alleged animal hoarders in Troy court

  21-02-2019 15:14 via timesunion.com
  TROY - A city couple accused of hoarding animals inside a home on Campbell Avenue appeared briefly in City Court Thursday but the judge quickly postponed the case until next month.David R. Hempstead and Michele Hempstead of 92 Campbell Ave. said nothing to the judge before the decision was made to adjourn the mattered until March 7.A group of animal rights activists were at court to protest the case.
  
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• School Bus Driver Holding Heroin Bag Crashes in NJ: Sources

  21-02-2019 14:49 via nbcnewyork.com
  
  Police have arrested a school bus driver after she crashed a school bus carrying 12 special-needs students into a tree in New Jersey, and had to be revived with Narcan after she allegedly got high on heroin...Photo Credit: Newark Police/News 4 NY
  
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• NY Driver Asked Not to Blow Smoke at Kids Plows Into Family

  21-02-2019 14:24 via nbcnewyork.com
  
  A driver angry about being asked not to blow cigarette smoke in the direction of children outside a New York 7-Eleven allegedly plowed into a family, hitting six kids and killing the mother before he was...Photo Credit: News 4
  
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• Pedestrian hit by CDTA bus in downtown Albany

  21-02-2019 13:43 via timesunion.com
  ALBANY - A pedestrian was taken to the hospital after being hit by a bus Thursday morning.The incident occurred at about 7:25 a.m. near the intersection of of Broadway and Clinton Avenue, police said.
  
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• 4-Year-Old Boy Impaled by Picture Frame Glass at Home, Dies

  21-02-2019 13:15 via nbcnewyork.com
  
  Loved ones are mourning a 4-year-old boy who died after falling and being impaled by a piece of glass inside a North Philadelphia home.Photo Credit: Family Photo/NBC10
  
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• Webster Hall Is Returning With Its Old Grit (and New Bathrooms)

  21-02-2019 12:54 via nytimes.com
  The East Village rock and dance club closed in 2017 for renovations. It reopens in April with a revamped entryway, new acoustics and, at last, an elevator.
  
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• How New York Lost Amazon

  21-02-2019 12:32 via nytimes.com
  Lawmakers who opposed the company’s deal are calling its collapse a political victory, but some say this messaging may come back to haunt them.
  
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• N.Y. Today: The Race for Public Advocate

  21-02-2019 11:34 via nytimes.com
  Thursday: 17 people will be on the ballot next Tuesday.
  
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• With 2020 in Sight, de Blasio Turns Left After Amazon’s Exit

  21-02-2019 11:00 via nytimes.com
  The mayor went from Amazon booster to critic when the company scuttled plans for a Queens campus; the shift may please progressives if he runs for president.
  
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• With 2020 in Sight, de Blasio Turns Against Amazon

  21-02-2019 11:00 via nytimes.com
  The mayor went from Amazon booster to critic when the company scuttled plans for a Queens campus; the shift may please progressives if he runs for president.
  
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• Is Trump the Real National Emergency?

  21-02-2019 11:00 via nytimes.com
  And what Amazon abandoning New York means for the city — and the country.
  
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• As Students Struggle With Stress and Depression, Colleges Act as Counselors

  21-02-2019 11:00 via nytimes.com
  More than 60 percent of college students said they had experienced “overwhelming anxiety” in the past year. Over 40 percent said they felt so depressed they had difficulty functioning.
  
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