Saturday, November 16, 2024

Kathy Hochul to be 1st female NY governor after Cuomo leaves

BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — As New York's lieutenant governor, Kathy Hochul has spent years on the road as the friendly face of the administration, visiting the far-flung coffee shops and factory floors of each of the state's 62 counties for countless ribbon-cutting ceremonies and civic cheerleading events.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 3 MONTHS AGO

Kathy Hochul to be 1st female NY governor after Cuomo leaves

BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — As New York's lieutenant governor, Kathy Hochul has spent years on the road as the friendly face of the administration, visiting the far-flung coffee shops and factory floors of each of the state's 62 counties for countless ribbon-cutting ceremonies and civic cheerleading events.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 3 MONTHS AGO

Kathy Hochul to be 1st female NY governor after Cuomo leaves

BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — As New York's lieutenant governor, Kathy Hochul has spent years on the road as the friendly face of the administration, visiting the far-flung coffee shops and factory floors of each of the state's 62 counties for countless ribbon-cutting ceremonies and civic cheerleading events.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 3 MONTHS AGO

Hochul to take center stage as scandal ends Cuomo's reign

BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — As New York's lieutenant governor, Kathy Hochul has spent years on the road as the friendly face of the administration, visiting the far-flung coffee shops and factory floors of each of the state's 62 counties for countless ribbon-cutting ceremonies and civic cheerleading events.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 3 MONTHS AGO

Hochul moves into spotlight as scandal roils Cuomo's reign

BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — As New York's lieutenant governor, Kathy Hochul has spent years on the road as the friendly face of the administration, visiting the far-flung coffee shops and factory floors of each of the state's 62 counties for countless ribbon-cutting ceremonies and civic cheerleading events.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 3 MONTHS AGO

Hochul moves into spotlight as scandal roils Cuomo's reign

BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — As New York's lieutenant governor, Kathy Hochul has spent years on the road as the friendly face of the administration, visiting the far-flung coffee shops and factory floors of each of the state's 62 counties for countless ribbon-cutting ceremonies and civic cheerleading events.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 3 MONTHS AGO

Hochul moves into spotlight as scandal roils Cuomo's reign

BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — As New York's lieutenant governor, Kathy Hochul has spent years on the road as the friendly face of the administration, visiting the far-flung coffee shops and factory floors of each of the state's 62 counties for countless ribbon-cutting ceremonies and civic cheerleading events.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 3 MONTHS AGO

Hochul moves into spotlight as scandal roils Cuomo's reign

BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — As New York's lieutenant governor, Kathy Hochul has spent years on the road as the friendly face of the administration, visiting the far-flung coffee shops and factory floors of each of the state's 62 counties for countless ribbon-cutting ceremonies and civic cheerleading events.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 3 MONTHS AGO

Buffalo mayoral candidate says hardship prepared her for job

BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — If a majority of voters, along with the four-term incumbent, mostly ignored political newcomer India Walton’s campaign for mayor during the Democratic primary, they’re paying attention now.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 4 MONTHS AGO

Buffalo mayoral candidate says hardship prepared her for job

BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — If a majority of voters, along with the four-term incumbent, mostly ignored political newcomer India Walton’s campaign for mayor during the Democratic primary, they’re paying attention now.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 4 MONTHS AGO

Buffalo mayoral candidate says hardship prepared her for job

BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — If a majority of voters, along with the four-term incumbent, mostly ignored political newcomer India Walton’s campaign for mayor during the Democratic primary, they’re paying attention now.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 4 MONTHS AGO

Buffalo mayoral candidate says hardship prepared her for job

BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — If a majority of voters, along with the four-term incumbent, mostly ignored political newcomer India Walton’s campaign for mayor during the Democratic primary, they’re paying attention now.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 4 MONTHS AGO

With Cuomo under fire, No. 2 Kathy Hochul treads carefully

BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — As a chorus of
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 8 MONTHS AGO

With Cuomo under fire, No. 2 Kathy Hochul treads carefully

BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — As a chorus of
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 8 MONTHS AGO

With Cuomo under fire, No. 2 Kathy Hochul treads carefully

BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — As a chorus of
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 8 MONTHS AGO

NY men charged after being photographed in Capitol breach

BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — A western New York man who was recorded trying to set fire to news media equipment and walking through the U.S. Capitol during last week’s siege appeared for a remote hearing Thursday in federal court, where his lawyer said his actions were “peaceful in nature.”
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 10 MONTHS AGO

Pandemic's toll shows up on students' college applications

In a college application season like no other, students who have seen every aspect of their lives disrupted by the coronavirus are grappling with how to show their potential.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 10 MONTHS AGO

Pandemic's toll shows up on students' college applications

In a college application season like no other, students who have seen every aspect of their lives disrupted by the coronavirus are grappling with how to show their potential.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 10 MONTHS AGO

Teachers help students make sense of violence at US Capitol

A teacher in Alabama presented photographs of the insurrection at the U.S. Capitol without commentary and asked students to write poems in reflection. A Minnesota instructor fielded comparisons to the aftermath of George Floyd’s killing. And a civics educator in Connecticut urged her rattled students to work toward making the …
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 10 MONTHS AGO

Another casualty of 2020: The magic of the snow day

BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — Even before the first flakes fell, New York City’s first big snowfall of the season was doomed to be a gloomy disappointment for more than a million of its schoolchildren.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 11 MONTHS AGO

Another casualty of 2020: The magic of the snow day

BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — Even before the first flakes fell, New York City’s first big snowfall of the season was doomed to be a gloomy disappointment for more than a million of its schoolchildren.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 11 MONTHS AGO

Review: No ethical lapses by Rochester mayor in Prude death

Rochester’s public integrity office said Tuesday it found no ethical lapses in the way Mayor Lovely Warren or senior staff members responded to the case of Daniel Prude, whose death in police custody led to weeks of protests and calls for Warren's resignation.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 11 MONTHS AGO

Another delay granted for Harvey Weinstein extradition

BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — Convicted former movie producer Harvey Weinstein will remain in a New York prison for now after his lawyers and prosecutors agreed Friday to postpone efforts to send him to California to face sexual assault charges.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 11 MONTHS AGO

Another delay granted for Harvey Weinstein extradition

BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — Convicted former movie producer Harvey Weinstein will remain in a New York prison for now after his lawyers and prosecutors agreed Friday to postpone efforts to send him to California to face sexual assault charges.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 11 MONTHS AGO

Another delay granted for Harvey Weinstein extradition

BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — Convicted former movie producer Harvey Weinstein will remain in a New York prison for now after his lawyers and prosecutors agreed Friday to postpone efforts to send him to California to face sexual assault charges.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 11 MONTHS AGO

Another delay granted for Harvey Weinstein extradition

BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — Convicted former movie producer Harvey Weinstein will remain in a New York prison for now after his lawyers and prosecutors agreed Friday to postpone efforts to send him to California to face sexual assault charges.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 11 MONTHS AGO

Schools confront 'off the rails' numbers of failing grades

The first report cards of the school year are arriving with many more Fs than usual in a dismal sign of the struggles students are experiencing with distance learning.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 11 MONTHS AGO

Schools confront 'off the rails' numbers of failing grades

The first report cards of the school year are arriving with many more Fs than usual in a dismal sign of the struggles students are experiencing with distance learning.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 11 MONTHS AGO

Schools confront 'off the rails' numbers of failing grades

The first report cards of the school year are arriving with many more Fs than usual in a dismal sign of the struggles students are experiencing with distance learning.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 11 MONTHS AGO

School closings threaten gains of students with disabilities

Without any in-school special education services for months, 14-year-old Joshua Nazzaro’s normally sweet demeanor has sometimes given way to aggressive meltdowns that had been under control before the pandemic.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 11 MONTHS AGO

Study: Students falling behind in math during pandemic

A disproportionately large number of poor and minority students were not in schools for assessments this fall, complicating efforts to measure the pandemic’s effects on some of the most vulnerable students, a not-for-profit company that administers standardized testing said Tuesday.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 11 MONTHS AGO

New York state sues Buffalo diocese over priest misconduct

BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — New York Attorney General Letitia James on Monday sued the Roman Catholic Diocese of Buffalo and two former church leaders, alleging they covered up allegations of sexual misconduct and misused charitable assets by supporting predatory priests who were allowed to retire or go on leave.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 11 MONTHS AGO

Inequality 'baked into' virus testing access as cases surge

The day after Amanda Serulneck found out she might have been exposed to COVID-19, she visited a rapid testing center in New Jersey but was turned away because they ran out of tests.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 11 MONTHS AGO

As coronavirus spikes, NYC prepares to close schools again

NEW YORK (AP) — A coronavirus resurgence in New York City is threatening to halt the nation’s biggest experiment with in-person learning.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 4 YEARS AGO

As virus spreads, NYC parents choose: Live or remote school?

NEW YORK (AP) — A resurgence of the coronavirus in New York City is threatening to halt the nation’s biggest experiment with in-person learning.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 4 YEARS AGO

In video classes teachers parse clues to student wellbeing

Christi Brouder had finally gotten her 10-year-old daughter settled on the hallway floor with a laptop and signed into a video class on Google Meet when the girl's 6-year-old brother leaped over the computer screen “in his birthday suit” to get a juice box.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 4 YEARS AGO

In video classes teachers parse clues to student wellbeing

Christi Brouder had finally gotten her 10-year-old daughter settled on the hallway floor with a laptop and signed into a video class on Google Meet when the girl's 6-year-old brother leaped over computer the screen “in his birthday suit” to get a juice box.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 4 YEARS AGO

In video classes teachers parse clues to student wellbeing

Christi Brouder had finally gotten her 10-year-old daughter settled on the hallway floor with a laptop and signed into a video class on Google Meet when the girl's 6-year-old brother leaped over computer the screen “in his birthday suit” to get a juice box.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 4 YEARS AGO

Month after mass shooting, Rochester seeks answers, suspects

ROCHESTER, N.Y. (AP) — It's the big question looming over one of this year's bloodiest mass shootings: Who opened fire at a crowded house party in Rochester, New York, on the last weekend of summer, killing two teenagers and wounding 14 other people?
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 4 YEARS, 1 MONTH AGO

FROM THE AP: Debates turn emotional as schools decide how and if to open

School districts across America are in the midst of making wrenching decisions over how to resume classes in settings radically altered by the coronavirus pandemic, with school buses running below capacity, virtual learning, outdoor classrooms and quarantine protocols for infected children the new norm.
COEUR D'ALENE PRESS | UPDATED 4 YEARS, 4 MONTHS AGO

New York City eyes June 8 for first phase of reopening

Gov. Andrew Cuomo says New York City is on track to begin reopening June 8 as the state gradually loosens restrictions put in place during the coronavirus crisis
COEUR D'ALENE PRESS | UPDATED 4 YEARS, 5 MONTHS AGO

NY delays presidential primary; Trump nixes quarantine idea

NEW YORK (AP) — As coronavirus cases rose in the national epicenter of New York, President Donald Trump surprised governors of the state and neighboring New Jersey and Connecticut by saying Saturday that he might impose a quarantine on their residents before tweeting later in the day that a travel …
DAILY INTER-LAKE | UPDATED 4 YEARS, 7 MONTHS AGO

'A really big experiment': Parents turn teachers amid virus

BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — After her sixth-grade son's school in Buffalo, New York, closed amid the coronavirus outbreak, Roxanne Ojeda-Valentin returned to campus with shopping bags to take home textbooks and weeks' worth of assignments prepared by teachers.
DAILY INTER-LAKE | UPDATED 4 YEARS, 8 MONTHS AGO

'A really big experiment': Parents turn teachers amid virus

BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — After her sixth-grade son's school in Buffalo, New York, closed amid the coronavirus outbreak, Roxanne Ojeda-Valentin returned to campus with shopping bags to take home textbooks and weeks' worth of assignments prepared by teachers.
COEUR D'ALENE PRESS | UPDATED 4 YEARS, 8 MONTHS AGO

Chess, rubber duck inducted into Toy Hall of Fame

ROCHESTER, N.Y. - The rubber duck squeaked out a win for a place in the National Toy Hall of Fame, joining the ancient game of chess in the 2013 class inducted Thursday.
COEUR D'ALENE PRESS | UPDATED 11 YEARS AGO

Some school districts quit healthier lunch program

After just one year, some schools around the country are dropping out of the healthier new federal lunch program, complaining that so many students turned up their noses at meals packed with whole grains, fruits and vegetables that the cafeterias were losing money.
COEUR D'ALENE PRESS | UPDATED 11 YEARS, 2 MONTHS AGO

A life lost to bullying

COEUR D'ALENE PRESS | UPDATED 12 YEARS, 11 MONTHS AGO

Cheerios turn 70

BUFFALO, N.Y. - Here's a little quiz for the breakfast table:
COEUR D'ALENE PRESS | UPDATED 13 YEARS, 4 MONTHS AGO

8 shot outside Buffalo restaurant

BUFFALO, N.Y. - Eight people leaving a party at a downtown Buffalo restaurant were shot early Saturday, four of them fatally, including a Texas man who had returned to his hometown to celebrate his first wedding anniversary, police said.
COEUR D'ALENE PRESS | UPDATED 14 YEARS, 3 MONTHS AGO

John Lennon's killer up for parole again

BUFFALO, N.Y. - John Lennon's killer will seek his freedom this week for a sixth time.A parole hearing for Mark David Chapman, 55, is scheduled at Attica Correctional Facility, the upstate New York prison where he has been held for nearly 30 years.
COEUR D'ALENE PRESS | UPDATED 14 YEARS, 3 MONTHS AGO