BREAKING NEWS - Governor Cuomo extends NY PAUSE until April 29th, meaning schools and nonessential businesses MUST remain closed until at least that date.
The Siena College sign stolen from campus in 1968 has been returned to the school by four alums who swiped it half a century ago, on the eve of their Alumni Weekend
BREAKING NEWS - Congressman Paul Tonko (D- Amsterdam) calls on congress to impeach and remove Donald Trump from office for inciting violence at the Capitol.
BREAKING NEWS - For the first time in history, Troy voters have selected a woman to run their city. Carmella MANTELLO (R) defeats Nina NICHOLS (D) to become mayor-elect.
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BREAKING NEWS - family member of Samantha Humphrey tells me she “was prepared for this day (when Sam would be found).” And acknowledges, “Obviously she didn’t tie herself up in a shopping cart and sink herself. It is almost certainly a homicide.”
BREAKING NEWS - the first upstate New York African American elected to Congress, Antonio Delgado, who grew up in Schenectady, will become the next lieutenant governor.
BREAKING NEWS -Shenendehowa School Superintendent Oliver Robinson holds up the baseball thrown by former Shen student Ian Anderson during game three of the 2021 World Series.
Ryan Hughes, manager at Jay St. Video in Crossgates Mall refused to sell anything to a customer on Friday and told the customer to leave his store for wearing a swastika on his t-shirt.
BREAKING NEWS - Governor Hochul: They rode bikes, they camped, they cooked out, and they’re here to make memories, the kind that last a lifetime. But instead the day turned into every parent’s nightmare.
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BREAKING NEWS - a massive search continues in Moreau State Park involving state police, sheriff’s deputies, forest rangers, infrared drones and blood hounds after 9-year old Charlotte Sena went missing while camping with her family.
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BREAKING NEWS - Schenectady Police say the autopsy on the body pulled from the Mohawk River Wednesday afternoon is completed and results will be available on Monday at the earliest. Multiple sources tell me the body IS Samantha Humphrey.
BREAKING NEWS - Pat Fahy (D - Albany) , first elected to the Assembly in 2012, receives the unanimous endorsement from the Executive Committee of the Albany County Democratic Committee to replace Neil Breslin in the State Senate.
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BREAKING NEWS - a massive search involving NYSP and the Saratoga Co. Sheriff’s Department is underway at Moreau State Park where 9-year old Charlotte Sena went missing at 6:15 pm Saturday night while camping with her family.
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BREAKING NEWS - Sources tell me the body pulled out of the Mohawk River Wednesday afternoon was a female and she was in a shopping cart. Police have not revealed the identity. An autopsy is scheduled for tomorrow.
BREAKING NEWS - Albany City Schools Superintendent Kaweeda Adams announces high-contact fall sports student athletes may not compete against other schools if they are not fully vaccinated.
BREAKING NEWS - 10-year old Maya Charles-Rivera returns to Shatekon Elementary School, reunited with her 5th grade classmates for the first time since undergoing a life-saving kidney transplant on December 8th.
Sen Chuck Schumer says construction of the Troy Seawall will protect residents and businesses from floods and it will continue to make the city’s riverfront an economic driver for the region.
BREAKING NEWS - Governor Cuomo announces FEMA is building four (4) field hospitals each with a 250 bed capacity. He says 1,000 beds are planned for the Javitts Center in Manhattan. He also says they have found 2 million masks to buy.
BREAKING NEWS - Congressman Paul Tonko (D-Amsterdam) calls for President Trump’s impeachment and removal: Today’s violence was not isolated, it has been the culmination of years of Donald Trump fanning the flames of suspicion, conspiracy and division for his own political gain.
BREAKING NEWS - Senator Chuck Schumer says he and Governor Hochul are in partnership to make The Capital Region the national hub for semiconductor manufacturing.
BREAKING NEWS- Gov Cuomo to sign an Executive Order allowing businesses to refuse to serve customers who are not wearing masks, saying, “If you don’t want to wear a mask, fine, but you don’t have a right to go into a store and (infect other people).”
BREAKING NEWS - Even though police have not identified the person retrieved from the Mohawk River Wednesday afternoon, the body was found near the spot where they believe 14-year Samantha Humphrey went into the river on November 25th.
BREAKING NEWS - an 18-wheeler slammed into the Maple Avenue Railroad Bridge in Glenville, wedging the big rig underneath. No injuries reported.
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BREAKING NEWS - buses arrive on UAlbany campus where they will transport Great Dame football team to Albany Airport for a flight to South Dakota where they’ll compete in Friday night’s national semifinal.
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BREAKING NEWS - Gubernatorial Candidate Lee Zeldin holds a news conference outside Paesan’s Pizza in Albany, a place he’d frequent as a UAlbany student, in a neighborhood that has been plagued with unruly and violent activity recently.
GOVERNOR CUOMO: A governor should not watch the President’s briefing. There is no value in it. It is infuriating and offensive and frankly ignorant of the facts.
BREAKING NEWS - a NYSP boat was back on the Mohawk River today searching for Samantha Humphrey. The 14-year Schenectady High School freshman disappeared on November 25th after getting into a physical altercation with an ex-boyfriend.
BREAKING NEWS - Congressman Paul Tonko (D - Amsterdam): For the safety of our people, republic, our laws and our Constitution, Congress must adopt articles of impeachment and remove Donald Trump from office immediately.
BREAKING NEWS - Multiple sources without authority to speak for the school tell News Channel 13 the Board of Trustees at the College of St. Rose voted Friday to shut down the school at the end of the Spring ‘24 semester.
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BREAKING NEWS - Actor Treat Williams pronounced dead at Albany Medical Center after being airlifted from Dorset, Vermont after a car turned into the path of his motorcycle.
Otto, a 3 1/2 month old Dachshund, is one of several animals rescued from the Carolinas hurricane zone looking to find a loving forever home. Available dogs and cats on display now at Goldstein Mitsubishi in Latham until 2:00 p.m.
BREAKING NEWS - Saratoga County Sheriff Michael Zurlo after 2 deputies were shot in a pre-dawn raid: No words can express how grateful I am this is only a news conference and not a eulogy.
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BREAKING NEWS- Senators Schumer and Gillibrand, in front of Troy Post Office, demand postal OT not be cutback, that $10B be provided to fund post office, and that postmaster General appears before Congress this Friday.
BREAKING NEWS - An SUV was swallowed up by a massive sinkhole at McClellan St and Eastern Ave in Schenectady. Driver taken to Ellis Hospital for observation. Injuries said to be very minor.
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After absentee ballot counting, Democrat Nathan Bruschi has been declared the winner in the Albany County Legislature District 24 race, marking the first time that Colonie seat has gone blue.
BREAKING-Cuomo: I want this all to be over. It’s only been 30 days. It feels like a lifetime. I think we all feel the same. This stresses us on every level like no other event in my lifetime. This has been so emotionally taxing, you can’t begin to quantify the effect on society.
BREAKING NEWS - Governor Cuomo says he knows his decisions cause disruption and people are upset. I did it in the best interest of NYS. I don’t feel good about it. I take full responsibility. The buck stops here. We will deal with the consequences afterwards.
Kinimo Ngoran, the Albany Rescue Mission chef arrested by ICE agents in January, will be released from federal detention in Batavia, NY tonight or tomorrow and come home to the Capital Region to complete his visa process a free man, according to his attorney Sarah Rogerson.
BREAKING NEWS - Governor Kathy Hochul says, “We will leave no stone, no branch, no table, no cabin unturned, untouched, unexamined in our search for Charlotte Sena.”
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BREAKING NEWS - Sources tell me Albany County DA David Sources will not get the Democratic Party endorsement for reelection for a 6th term when the committee meets on Tuesday night.
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BREAKING NEWS - Hang glider has been cut down from power lines near Indian Ladder Farm in The town of New Scotland. Fire Chief says he’s lucky to be alive.
BREAKING NEWS - State Police have just arrived at Blatnick Park in Niskayuna after a Knolls employee reportedly saw a body floating down the Mohawk River. This location is several miles downstream from where 14-year old Samantha Humphrey went missing on November 25th.
BREAKING NEWS - Governor Kathy Hochul says, “Hearts are broken here today in New York. Hopefully there’ll be a reunion, hopefully there will be a family that has been traumatized but will be reunited. That is our prayer and our hope at this time.”
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BREAKING NEWS - The National Arena League has officially terminated the Albany Empire franchise, ending the short-lived ownership era of Antonio Brown.
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Governor Cuomo said he was inspired by the gesture illustrated by Pathways Nursing and Rehabilitation Center in Niskayuna, donating 35 of their ventilators to the Coronavirus effort on Easter Sunday morning.
BREAKING NEWS - Lt Governor Antonio Delgado speaking at Albany’s MLK celebration: the power of love is what Dr. King believed in more than anything else.
BREAKING - Prosecutor Chris Morris delivers 2 hr closing argument, telling the jury:The question isn’t whether Kevin Monahan knew he killed Kaylin but rather if he cared. And he didn’t. His actions reflect depravity defined by having a wicked or evil state of mind.
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BREAKING NEWS- 6-state partnership formed (NY, NJ, CT, DE, PA, RI) to reopen from Coronavirus. Rhode Island Gov Gina Raimondo: We will be much more likely to get it right for the people of our region. The reality is this virus doesn’t care about state borders.
BREAKING NEWS - This current trajectory will consume government and waste millions of dollars. I cannot be the cause of that. I will be stepping aside 14 days from now.
BREAKING NEWS - By a vote count of 81-52, the NYS Assembly has voted themselves a pay raise from $110,000 to &142,000, making them the highest paid state lawmakers in the country. Governor Hochul is expected to sign it into law in the coming days.
BREAKING NEWS - Schenectady detectives now investigating the Samantha Humphrey case as a homicide. The 14-year old disappeared November 25th. Her body was found in the Mohawk River on February 22nd.
BREAKING NEWS -Albany City Schools Board of Education outlining new protocols for fall sports participation. NO VACCINATION, NO INTERSCHOLASTIC SPORTS! ( high contact sports - cheerleading, football, volleyball)
BREAKING NEWS - the North Colonie School District Board of Education has voted to resume high-risk winter sports including basketball, wrestling, cheerleading, and ice hockey.
BREAKING NEWS - New York Lt. Governor Brian Benjamin arrested on federal bribery conspiracy charges. Pressure on Governor Kathy Hochul’s hand picked
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BREAKING NEWS - Gov Cuomo says the Chinese government is donating 1,000 ventilators that will arrive at JFK today. Calls it a “big deal that will make a significant difference for us.”
Umpires make the right call- two dozen members of the Capital District Baseball Umpires Assn surprise avid baseball fan Carter Wasula of East Greenbush, helping the youngster celebrate his 10th birthday with a parade past his house, dropping of baseball memorabilia as gifts.
BREAKING NEWS - The victim of Wednesday’s fatal hit and run on Clinton Avenue in Albany has been identified as 31-year old Tani Bee, a published author.
BREAKING NEWS - Saratoga County District Attorney Karen Heggen confirms she has requested all investigative information from state police regarding Mavis employees and what role they may have played in the 2018 Schoharie Limousine crash that killed 20 people.
BREAKING NEWS - a state police helicopter continues an aerial search of the Mohawk after a KAPL employee reported seeing a body floating in the water. Nothing has been found in the area several miles downstream from where 14-year old Sam Humphrey went missing on November 25th.
Former Schenectady High School basketball star Willie Deane, from the layup line to the literary world, reads his book Love to students at Martin Luther King Jr. Elementary School.