SCHENECTADY — The Schenectady City School District is seeking community input on its forthcoming 2024-2030 strategic plan, with a public survey now open and seven focus groups scheduled for January. The district will host two virtual focus groups on Jan. 8 and 19, with the first of five in-person focus groups for residents set for
JERUSALEM — The Kerem Shalom crossing between Israel and Gaza opened on Sunday for aid trucks for the first time since the outbreak of war, officials said, a move intended to double the amount of food and medicine reaching the enclave. The crossing had been closed after an Oct. 7 attack by Hamas and aid
DURHAM, New Hampshire — Donald Trump, the Republican presidential frontrunner, said on Saturday that undocumented immigrants were "poisoning the blood of our country," repeating language that has previously drawn criticism as xenophobic and echoing of Nazi rhetoric. Trump made the comments during a campaign event in New Hampshire where he railed against the record number
BUFFALO, N.Y. (WKBW) — New York State Police said Tuesday a retired technical sergeant has passed away Sunday due to an illness connected to his response to the 9/11 attack on the World Trade Center. Technical Sgt. Christopher P. Rock joined state police in 1987 and served for 26 years before his retirement in September
SCHENECTADY — Convicted child killer Marybeth Tinning, released to parole in 2018, is now no longer on parole, state prison officials confirmed this week. Tinning, then 80, was "discharged from post-release supervision" effective July 22, an official from the state Department of Corrections and Community Supervision said in an email. Tinning had been serving a sentence
ALBANY — The number of full-time local government employees outside of New York City shrank nearly 8% between 2007 and 2022, according to a new state audit. A report released by state Comptroller Tom DiNapoli’s Office found full-time local government workers shrank 7.9% — 491,102 down to 452,298 — during the 15-year period. In contrast, local governments nationwide
ATLANTA — Lead contamination in cinnamon applesauce pouches that sickened dozens of young children may have been an "intentional act," a U.S. Food and Drug Administration official told Politico. In an interview published on Thursday, Jim Jones, FDA's deputy commissioner for human foods, said the agency is still investigating the lead-tainted cinnamon applesauce pouches, "but
VATICAN CITY — A Vatican tribunal on Saturday convicted a cardinal of embezzlement and sentenced him to 5½ years in prison in one of several verdicts handed down in a complicated financial trial that aired the city state's dirty laundry and tested its justice system. Cardinal Angelo Becciu, the first cardinal ever prosecuted by the
SCHENECTADY — It’s been shot down again. Schenectady Mayor Gary McCarthy on Wednesday vetoed the City Council’s second budget proposal this year. The mayor has advocated, instead, for lawmakers to circle back to his original spending plan. This comes as the city’s Dec. 31 budget deadline looms in the distance. “Again, the council has just
SCHENECTADY — The company behind the Mohawk Harbor arena project could break ground in mid-January after receiving key approvals from the Schenectady Board of Zoning Appeals Wednesday night. The company anticipates getting final approval at a Planning Commission meeting next week. This week’s granted approvals were for variances primarily related to parking. They included allowing
