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• New York has collected 6k air-travel surveys but many ignoring request for info

  02-07-2020 23:55 via timesunion.com
  
  The state Department of Health on Thursday said government workers had collected more than 6,600 questionnaires from travelers who have landed at New York airports in the four days since Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo had imposed a 14-day quarantine for people entering New York from states with high rates of coronavirus infections.But the effort to monitor the travelers and mandate compliance has not been seamless, with thousands of travelers declining to fill out the forms and at least one airline &mdash
  
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• New York state to open pools for July 4 weekend

  02-07-2020 23:49 via timesunion.com
  
  New York state's public pools will open over the upcoming July 4 weekend, the governor's office announced.The pools will be opened under the conventional scheduled observed in the past by the state Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation, but social distancing rules will limit the number of people allowed in the pools.Visitors will be asked to follow social distancing guidelines and sign-in with contact information in case health workers needed to trace contacts if any bathers beco
  
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• New health care manufacturer, Hometa, comes to Albany

  02-07-2020 23:38 via timesunion.com
  
  The subsidiary of a major Mexican health care manufacturer has chosen the Capital Region to open a new plant building medical  devices such as intravenous tubes, anti-microbial products and syringes.
  
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• Schenectady citing some for fireworks violations

  02-07-2020 23:31 via timesunion.com
  
  SCHENECTADY - Amid mounting public pressure to crackdown on illegal fireworks, the city earlier this week prosecuted a person for the first time this summer for igniting illegal fireworks in public in violation of the city code.City Attorney Andrew Koldin said Jason Starks was arraigned Wednesday in City Court for not having the required permit to discharge fireworks in public, which the defendant subsequently pleaded guilty to, agreeing to pay a $200 fine to resolve the matter.
  
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• Iroquois Museum outdoor exhibit explores stereotypes

  02-07-2020 23:25 via timesunion.com
  
  HOWES CAVE — For well more than a century, pop-culture representations of Native Americans have almost always been stereotypes. The savage warrior and the inscrutable pipe-smoker of the 19th century gave way to to the viciousness of mid-20th-century depictions of alcoholism, and today we Native Americans portrayed as shamans or nouveau riche, rolling in money from casinos and tax-free cigarettes. The Iroquois Indian Museum explores the limited roles given to Native Americans, who hail from
  
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• Reformer groups call for end to Cuomo's executive power

  02-07-2020 23:21 via timesunion.com
  ALBANY - Reformer groups have joined the calls to end Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo’s executive power given to him to respond to the global public health crisis.A letter penned Wednesday to Cuomo and state legislative leaders by Common Cause New York, NYPIRG, the League of Women Voters of New York and Reinvent Albany calls for the Legislature to pull back on Cuomo’s expanded power and restore the balance of power.
  
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• Widower of Pittstown poisoning victim accused of beating man with hammer

  02-07-2020 21:50 via timesunion.com
  
  PITTSTOWN — The husband of a woman who died with rat poison in her system has been charged for allegedly beating another man with a hammer.No one has ever been charged in connection with the death of Megan Dyer-MacLean, whose body was found June 4, 2018 on an old railroad bed behind her Johnsonville home. But the Rensselaer County Sheriff's Office said that while detectives investigated Dyer-MacLean's death they learned that Duncan McLean, 36, attacked another man with a hammer in the year
  
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• Widow of Pittstown poisoning victim accused of beating man with hammer

  02-07-2020 21:50 via timesunion.com
  
  PITTSTOWN — The husband of a woman who died with rat poison in her system is under arrest - for allegedly beating another man with a hammer.No one has ever been charged with killing Megan Dyer-MacLean, whose body was found June 4, 2018, on an old railroad bed behind her Johnsonville home. But the Rensselaer County Sheriff's Office said that while detectives investigated Dyer-MacLean's death they learned that Duncan McLean, 36, attacked another man with a hammer the prev
  
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• Two Albany County restaurants close after employees test positive for coronavirus

  02-07-2020 21:32 via timesunion.com
  
  The Albany County Health Department announced Thursday that two local restaurants have temporarily closed after employees tested positive for the novel coronavirus.The Philly Bar and Lounge in Latham and Delmonico's Italian Steakhouse on Central Avenue in Albany each had three employees test positive for the virus.Two of the three Philly Bar employees live in Albany County and one lives in Rensselaer County, the department said. Two of the three Delmonico's employees live in
  
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• Latham restaurant closed after employees test positive for COVID-19

  02-07-2020 21:32 via timesunion.com
  
  The Albany County Department of Health has temporarily shut down a Latham restaurant after three employees tested positive for COVID-19, officials announced Thursday.Two of the three employees associated with Philly Bar and Lounge are residents of Albany County and one is a resident of Rensselaer County. The state Department of Health will hold onsite testing for other employees Friday, and the restaurant will remain closed until all of the test results come back, Albany County officia
  
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• Court upholds abortion-related ruling against Catholic Church

  02-07-2020 21:23 via timesunion.com
  
  ALBANY – The region's mid-level appeals court on Thursday unanimously rejected the Roman Catholic Diocese of Albany’s effort to challenge a state regulation that requires health insurers to cover medically necessary abortions.In a 5-0 decision, the Appellate Division of state Supreme Court's Third Department in Albany upheld a January 2019 ruling by state Supreme Court Justice Richard McNally, who determined that insurance policies that provide hospital, surgical or medical expense c
  
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• Mysterious landlord groups push money to Democrats

  02-07-2020 21:22 via timesunion.com
  
  After struggling to gain influence in a state Legislature wholly controlled by Democrats, New York City’s real estate industry engaged in quiet but significant outside spending to influence two tightly contested Democratic state Senate primaries last week.Three outside groups funded by major New York City landlords spent $375,000. The two groups that were new this year – called “Fight Back Long Island” and “Hudson Valley Voters for Change” – disclosed li
  
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• McCoy says Clyne should wear mask

  02-07-2020 21:14 via timesunion.com
  
  ALBANY - County Executive Dan McCoy said he believed Democratic Election Commissioner Matt Clyne should be wearing a mask while absentee ballots are being counted this week.“For the safety of Board of Election workers and people who are down there doing the count, he should have one on or excuse himself and let someone else do it,” McCoy said.
  
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• Social media accounts flag disturbing incidents at Capital Region schools, colleges

  02-07-2020 21:03 via timesunion.com
  
  Within the first 48 hours of its launch, more than 300 stories poured into an Instagram account called "MeTooBethlehem" .Current and former students of the Bethlehem school system submitted their experiences with sexual violence and discrimination on and off school grounds through an anonymous Google form, which were then posted to the social media site. Nearly 200 of those stories have been posted publicly, chilling descriptions that range from students who released "nudes" of other students, t
  
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• State Parks launch mobile app for visitors

  02-07-2020 19:44 via timesunion.com
  
  ALBANY — Information  on the state's parks and historic sites is available in a new app from the New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation. The app, free from Google or Apple, includes "directions, hours, amenities, fees and rates, trail maps, helpful know-before-you-go details, and the ability to receive important updates and alerts," according to the Thursday's announcement.
  
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• Albany pools open Friday

  02-07-2020 19:33 via timesunion.com
  
  ALBANY - Three of the city's swimming pools will open at noon on Friday, city officials said. All three will have restrictions due to the coronavirus pandemic.
  
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• Ilion's Remington Arms is nearing bankruptcy

  02-07-2020 19:16 via timesunion.com
  
  Remington Arms Co., which employs about 1,000 people in the Herkimer County village of Ilion and is the nation’s oldest gun maker is said to be close to filing for bankruptcy.
  
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• Schenectady Light Opera cancels 2020-2021 season

  02-07-2020 18:28 via timesunion.com
  
  The Schenectady Light Opera Company is cancelling the entirety of the 2020-2021 season, the theater company's board of directors announced late Wednesday.
  
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• Troy man accused of May stabbing

  02-07-2020 18:14 via timesunion.com
  
  TROY – A 40-year-old city man has been charged with attempted second-degree murder in a May 17 stabbing, city police said Thursday.
  
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• Shopportunist: Money-saving road trip tips

  02-07-2020 15:42 via timesunion.com
  
  AAA forecasts Americans will take 700 million trips. A vast majority of those looking to escape and social distance elsewhere will ramble by road, marking the return of what AAA says is the Great American Road Trip.
  
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• Unemployment, initial jobless claims fall

  02-07-2020 15:12 via timesunion.com
  
  The nation's unemployment rate fell to 11.1 percent in June from 13.3 percent in May, the U.S. Labor Department reported Thursday.In a separate report, initial claims for unemployment showed little improvement, falling 55,000 during the week ending June 27 to 1,427,000, from the previous week's 1,482,000, which had been revised upward by 2,000.
  
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• Woman shot in back in Albany

  02-07-2020 14:07 via timesunion.com
  
  ALBANY — A woman was hospitalized Thursday morning after, police said, she was shot in the back on Quail Street.Police said they found the 22-year-old woman inside a car after answering calls of gunshots near Quail and West streets.The incident was reported at about 12:40 a.m.Emergency workers treated the woman at the scene before taking her to Albany Medical Center where, police said, she was treated for non-life-threatening injuries.The woman is the latest in a slew of shooting vict
  
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• Three Warren County residents with COVID-19 took flights from Florida to Albany

  02-07-2020 13:57 via timesunion.com
  
  Warren County is trying to track down passengers on flights from Florida that carried three people who later tested positive for COVID-19.The infected passengers were on flights that flew into Albany International Airport last week.The county posted the information on its Facebook page sharing this information about the flights:
  
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• Search on for people who flew into Albany with COVID-19-infected passengers

  02-07-2020 13:57 via timesunion.com
  
  Warren County is trying to track down passengers on flights from Florida that carried three people who later tested positive for COVID-19.The infected passengers were on flights that flew into Albany International Airport last week.The county posted the information on its Facebook page sharing this information about the flights:
  
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• Albany County steps up tracing after Albany-bound flights bring people with COVID-19

  02-07-2020 13:57 via timesunion.com
  
  Warren County is trying to track down passengers on flights from Florida that carried three people who later tested positive for COVID-19.The infected passengers were on flights that flew into Albany International Airport last week.The county posted the information on its Facebook page sharing this information about the flights:
  
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• Jason Gough's forecast: Heat and humidity are back

  02-07-2020 12:45 via timesunion.com
  
  After four days of heavy showers and thunderstorms scattered across the area, we're changing things up. Hopefully, you got the rain you needed?! The trend is to warmer and more humid for now, then we drop some humidity and keep the heat. Tomorrow still has many forecast questions to answer but other than that, we're in good shape until at least the middle of next week.
  
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• RPI athletes deal with disappointment of canceled fall season

  02-07-2020 02:25 via timesunion.com
  
  Marinopoulos is one of three RPI fall athletes, all from the Capital Region, who shared their disappointment in interviews. The others were field hockey player Sydney Luke of Hoosick Falls, entering her senior year, and sophomore-to-be soccer player Ben Kogan of Shenendehowa.
  
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• Teens sentenced for shooting toddler who was sleeping in daycare

  02-07-2020 01:40 via timesunion.com
  
  Two young men who admitted shooting up the city's South End last year in a retaliatory ambush, with one of them firing a round that tore through the arm of a toddler who was sleeping in a daycare center, were sentenced to lengthy prison terms Wednesday as the little boy and his mother sat in the courtroom for the proceedings.The defendants, one a 17-year-old who was prosecuted as an adolescent offender and the other 19-year-old Bahkee Green, apologized to the mother and her son before
  
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• Albany groups push for ceasefire, violence solutions

  02-07-2020 00:56 via timesunion.com
  
  ALBANY -  A number of city residents are stepping up to try and quell gun violence in the city after 36 people were shot, including four fatally, in June.
  Neither effort is directly tied to law enforcement’s own efforts to combat an outburst of violence in the city. Instead, the plan is to work toward addressing some of the root causes behind the violence and let those involved know there are other ways as the city starts what is historically its most violent month of the year.
  
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• Differing versions of Bumpy's gun scare emerge

  02-07-2020 00:37 via timesunion.com
  
  SCHENECTADY – The attorney for embattled Bumpy’s Polar Freeze owner David Elmendorf denies his client is a racist and said they've hired a private investigator to learn why Schenectady County, who he plans to sue, and others seem to be working together to try to destroy the businessman.Lawyer James Mermigis said Wednesday that Elmendorf pulled out what police have said was a pellet gun during Tuesday’s protest around Bumpy’s in a bid to save a friend from a beat-down by a
  
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• ValleyCats mull plans for this year, think about possibilities for next year

  02-07-2020 00:34 via timesunion.com
  
  When the minor league baseball team takes the field again next year, the franchise could be quite different. For one thing, the ValleyCats might not open in June, but rather two months earlier in April.
  
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• Rensselaer County limits DMV to county residents only

  02-07-2020 00:32 via timesunion.com
  
  TROY — Only Rensselaer County residents will be permitted to use the county Department of Motor Vehicles office starting Monday, the county announced Wednesday.“Residents from other counties will need to handle DMV transactions in their home counties,” the announcement stated.
  
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• UAlbany study finds earlier COVID intervention needed for minority communities

  02-07-2020 00:23 via timesunion.com
  
  ALBANY — A new study from the University at Albany finds that Black and Latinx communities have a much higher chance of being infected, hospitalized and dying from coronavirus than whites.The state university partnered with the state Department of Health to conduct the study.The disparities in New York  deaths from the disease caused by the coronavirus, COVID-19, are “clear and pronounced,” according to the study. It used public data from the state to look at infection, ho
  
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• Small business loan program wins extension from Congress

  02-07-2020 00:04 via timesunion.com
  
  At midnight Tuesday, the Small Business Administration closed up shop on a popular, yet controversial, federal program that has awarded millions of forgivable loans to businesses slammed by the coronavirus.But the Paycheck Protection Program may soon be open for business again, after the Senate and House of Representatives both voted unanimously to hand companies another five weeks to apply for the relief. The change must be signed into law by President Donald Trump to take effect.
  
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• Albany investment adviser: Be optimistic, but cautious, about market recovery

  02-07-2020 00:04 via timesunion.com
  
  There is reason to be optimistic about the economy's recovery from the coronavirus pandemic, Capital Region investment adviser Hugh Johnson said Wednesday.But that optimism should be cautious as other states see record surges in COVID-19 cases that could imperil the country's economic reopening.
  
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