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• Conviction of Brooklyn Man Tossed Out by Judge

  20-11-2019 01:23 via NBC New York - Local News
  
  A man serving 25 years-to-life in prison for a murder he has always said he did not commit was freed, after a Brooklyn judge tossed the conviction over concerns regarding the police investigation conducted by a...
  
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• Twin Sisters Are Living Their Rockette Dreams

  07-12-2019 07:45 via NBC New York - Local News
  
  The twins from a small town in Michigan are living their big city dreams with the Radio City Rockettes, and both say having someone to lean on through the who thing is a blessing.
  
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• NY Town Mourns After Family of 4 Found Dead is Identified

  07-12-2019 07:45 via NBC New York - Local News
  
  Police released the identities of a family killed after the father murdered his wife and two children, before taking his own life inside their Westchester County home.Photo Credit: News 4
  
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• New Jersey Holiday Light Show Back in Business

  07-12-2019 07:44 via NBC New York - Local News
  
  After his annual and extravagant holiday light show was shut down 2 years ago by the town due to costs of hiring police to deal with the traffic and crowds, Bill Epp will now get to entertain viewers at...
  
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• NY Mourns Stunned After Family of 4 Found Dead is Identified

  07-12-2019 05:07 via NBC New York - Local News
  
  Police released the identities of a family killed after the father murdered his wife and two children, before taking his own life inside their Westchester County home.Photo Credit: News 4
  
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• NYPD Cop Finds Razor Blade in Sandwich from Queens Deli

  07-12-2019 02:37 via NBC New York - Local News
  
  The deli says it has no idea how the razor blade found its way into the Philly cheesesteak sandwich that was made for a police officer, but investigators are now looking into the incident.
  
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• Chuck Schumer Battles Fake Money Spreading for Holidays

  07-12-2019 02:35 via NBC New York - Local News
  
  As fake cash is flooding stores this holiday season, which then can unknowingly be passed right back to other customers, officials are trying to get online retailers from selling the counterfeit cash.
  
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• NYPD Officers Claim Racial Quotas for Arrests Exist

  07-12-2019 02:30 via NBC New York - Local News
  
  While the NYPD has always maintained that quotas have never existed, new affidavits from officers claim the racial quotas against blacks and Hispanics, particularly for fare evasion.
  
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• Some in Schenectady's Upper Union Street neighbor still against new McDonald's

  07-12-2019 00:18 via Local News
  
  SCHENECTADY – The neighborhood association president says residents plan to attend a meeting later this month to voice their concerns about  a controversial proposal by the owners of the McDonald’s restaurant on Upper Union Street to demolish the eatery and build a new and bigger eatery with two drive-thrus.“We think this project would harm the business district and our surrounding community,” said Tom Carey president of the 12309/Upper Union Neighborhood Association
  
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• New RPI supercomputer is among world's fastest and most powerful

  07-12-2019 00:01 via Local News
  
  Imagine if you were able to perform 1 million calculations in your head each second. Then imagine everyone on the planet – 7.7 billion people – doing that at the same time.That’s what the new IBM AiMOS computer is capable of. In computer terms, that means it can run at 8 petaflops, or 8 quadrillion calculations per second. The computer, a series of large server racks in a chilly glass-enclosed room in a squat building set back from the main road at the Rensselaer Technology Par
  
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• Cohoes cops investigating paternity of dead infant

  06-12-2019 23:56 via Local News
  
  COHOES – Police are investigating whether the man arrested in connection with the death of a 6-week-old boy was the boy's biological father, as he has claimed.The infant, Eli Ojeda-Harmon, died this week after apparently ingesting methamphetamine. Anthony Ojeda, 38, has been accused of manslaughter in connection with the child's death.The infant was under the supervision of the Rensselaer County Child Protective Services, city police said Thursday.As part of their investigation, police hav
  
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• New Study Shows Tri-State Area Is Not All That Generous

  06-12-2019 23:46 via NBC New York - Local News
  
  According to a recent study released by Wallethub, the tri-state area is not as generous compared to other states.Photo Credit: News 4
  
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• NYPD Crossfit for Mind and Body

  06-12-2019 23:28 via NBC New York - Local News
  
  NYPD officers are turning to Crossfit training to help both physical and mental health. Jen Maxfield reports.
  
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• Schenectady cops arrest man, 18, after rash of fires

  06-12-2019 23:02 via Local News
  
  SCHENECTADY — Police have charged an 18-year-old city man in connection with a rash of fires last month in the normally quiet Boulevard neighborhood.Sgt. Matthew Dearing, a city police spokesman, said  Friday that Tyrell McCray had been arrested and charged with eight counts of arson — four of them felonies.
  
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• Accused Ringleader Pleads Guilty in $400K GoFundMe Scheme

  06-12-2019 22:27 via NBC New York - Local News
  
  The New Jersey man prosecutors say was in the middle of a scheme to bilk thousands of GoFundMe donors out of more than $400,000 with a fake feel-good story about a homeless veteran has pleaded guilty and...Photo Credit: NBC10 - J.R. Smith
  
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• Sources: New York Knicks Fire Head Coach David Fizdale

  06-12-2019 21:53 via NBC New York - Local News
  
  The New York Knicks fired head coach David Fizdale.Photo Credit: Getty Images
  
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• Debate on Saratoga EDC's need to be ABO-compliant continues

  06-12-2019 21:52 via Local News
  
  BALLSTON SPA – A State Supreme Court decision in Orange County might release the Saratoga Economic Development Corporation in the decade-old debate as to whether or not it needs to be compliant with the state Authorities Budget Office before the county funds its economic efforts.Clifton Park Supervisor Phil Barrett who also chairs the county’s Economic Development Committee said the Nov. 20 decision that the nonprofit Orange County Partnership is not an authority and therefore does n
  
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• Doggie Blues: Essex Co. Sheriff’s Office to Disband K-9 Unit

  06-12-2019 21:13 via NBC New York - Local News
  
  The Essex County Sheriff’s Office announced Friday it will disband its K-9 Unit effective 2020 in order to save costs.Photo Credit: Essex County Sheriff's Office
  
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• Albany warns residents of discolored water from main breaks

  06-12-2019 21:10 via Local News
  
  ALBANY — The city is alerting Albany Water customers that they might temporarily experience discolored water on Friday as a result of water main breaks.The discolored water is expected to pass through the system by Friday evening as repairs to the water distribution system are completed, the city said in a news release. "The discoloration is purely aesthetic and the water is not harmful," it said.
  
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• Albany County measure to prevent employees from hiring relatives passes

  06-12-2019 21:03 via Local News
  
  ALBANY - Despite a local law that has languished in committee for nearly two years that would prevent hiring elected officials’ relatives without scrutiny, county legislators instead opted for a measure that prevents county employees from hiring their relatives.Resolution 523, introduced last month by Albany County Democrats Richard Touchette and Andrew Joyce, the legislature’s chairman, prohibits any county employee from participating in the decision to “appoint, hire, promote
  
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• Capital Region Gives: NY nonprofit help raise guide dogs in Capital Region

  06-12-2019 21:02 via Local News
  
  Ann Halburian is in the process of training her German Shepard, but one day he’ll know more than just how to sit or stay. He’s on his way to becoming a guide dog for the blind.Halburian volunteers as a “puppy raiser” for Guiding Eyes for the Blind, an Yorktown Heights-based nonprofit that has chapters all over the country. Halburian has been helping the nonprofit raise dogs since 2009 and has raised eight dogs with the organization.
  
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• Jason Gough's forecast: Snow... again

  06-12-2019 20:54 via Local News
  
  The radar shows a good representation of how our snow has evolved today: Heavier, steadier snow has been out in the Mohawk Valley and up across a good chunk of Saratoga County, with some steady snow noted in southern Bennington County.
  
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• Locals among 44 newly graduated environmental officers, forest rangers

  06-12-2019 20:49 via Local News
  
  The state Department of Environmental Conservation welcomed 44 new officers and rangers to their midst Friday. Nine of the newly graduated state environmental conservation police officers and forest rangers are from the Capital Region.
  
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• A Political Party Aligns Itself With Ocasio-Cortez

  06-12-2019 20:34 via New York
  
  The new leader of the Working Families Party in New York hopes to remake the progressive group to attract the energized left.
  
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• Bon Appetit Apologizes for Cop's Razor Blade Sandwich Mishap

  06-12-2019 19:52 via NBC New York - Local News
  
  An NYPD officer assigned to the department's Critical Response Command found a razor blade in a sandwich he bought from a specialty food store in Queens, a police spokesman tells News 4.Photo Credit: News 4/Getty
  
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• Report: Another GOP state senator decides not to seek re-election

  06-12-2019 19:21 via Local News
  
  ALBANY — For the third time in a week, an upstate Republican state senator has announced that he won't seek re-election next year.Buffalo-area Sen. Michael Ranzenhofer revealed his decision to the Buffalo News in an article posted Friday afternoon.“I wasn’t going to do this until I dropped dead," the six-term senator said. "It’s time to give some consideration to priorities like my family." His district stretches from the suburbs of Buffalo east to Rochester.
  
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• UAlbany football takes on Montana State in NCAA playoffs

  06-12-2019 18:50 via Local News
  
  Now the challenge for the Great Danes (9-4) is to make sure their historic season doesn't end in the Rocky Mountains. They'll have to beat the fifth-ranked Bobcats (9-3) in front of an estimated crowd of 14,000 to 15,000 fans at 17,777-seat Bobcat Stadium.UAlbany has never beaten an FCS opponent ranked in the top five nationally. The program's best win was a victory over No. 7 Villanova two years ago. But senior center Niko Culnan would be happy to prove skeptics wrong."Nobody thought we were go
  
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• Around the World in 5 Kids’ Games

  06-12-2019 18:38 via New York
  
  Hand-clapping games are played in schoolyards everywhere, in every language. Eventually they find their way to New York City.
  
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• Holiday Elf 'Joins' NYPD on Temporary Assignment

  06-12-2019 17:57 via NBC New York - Local News
  
  If you happen to be a victim of a candy cane-related crime, fear not, for the NYPD has a secret weapon known as "Pete."Photo Credit: NYPD 19th Precinct
  
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• 1,000 former, current Equinox clients affected by data breach

  06-12-2019 17:48 via Local News
  
  ALBANY — Equinox, the Albany-based human services agency, has learned of a data breach that may impact the protected health information of more than 1,000 current and former clients.
  
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