Gone Fission: Controversial nuke plant near NYC shuts down
BUCHANAN, N.Y. (AP) — Indian Point will permanently stop producing nuclear power Friday, capping a decades-long battle over a key source of electricity in the heart of New York City's suburbs that opponents have called a threat to millions living in the densely packed region.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 6 MONTHS AGO
Gone Fission: Controversial nuke plant near NYC shuts down
BUCHANAN, N.Y. (AP) — Indian Point will permanently stop producing nuclear power Friday, capping a decades-long battle over a key source of electricity in the heart of New York City's suburbs that opponents have called a threat to millions living in the densely packed region.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 6 MONTHS AGO
Gone Fission: Controversial nuke plant near NYC shuts down
BUCHANAN, N.Y. (AP) — Indian Point will permanently stop producing nuclear power Friday, capping a decades-long battle over a key source of electricity in the heart of New York City's suburbs that opponents have called a threat to millions living in the densely packed region.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 6 MONTHS AGO
Prosecutor son seeks father's release in fatal Brink's heist
David Gilbert went to prison a revolutionary, raising his fist and scorning authorities who prosecuted him for an infamous 1981 armored truck robbery in which a guard and two police officers were killed.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 8 MONTHS AGO
DA son seeks release of father imprisoned in fatal '81 heist
David Gilbert went to prison a revolutionary, raising his fist and scorning authorities who prosecuted him for an infamous 1981 armored truck robbery in which a guard and two police officers were killed.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 8 MONTHS AGO
DA son seeks release of father imprisoned in fatal '81 heist
David Gilbert went to prison a revolutionary, raising his fist and scorning authorities who prosecuted him for an infamous 1981 armored truck robbery in which a guard and two police officers were killed.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 9 MONTHS AGO
Nursing home disclosures taint Cuomo's pandemic performance
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo wrote a book on managing the COVID-19 crisis. Now he faces intensifying accusations that he covered up the true death toll of the pandemic on nursing home residents, attacks that challenge his reputation for straight-shooting competency and could cloud his political …
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 9 MONTHS AGO
Nursing home disclosures taint Cuomo's pandemic performance
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo wrote a book on managing the COVID-19 crisis. Now he faces intensifying accusations that he covered up the true death toll of the pandemic on nursing home residents, attacks that challenge his reputation for straight-shooting competency and could cloud his political …
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 9 MONTHS AGO
Nursing home disclosures taint Cuomo's pandemic performance
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo wrote a book on managing the COVID-19 crisis. Now he faces intensifying accusations that he covered up the true death toll of the pandemic on nursing home residents, attacks that challenge his reputation for straight-shooting competency and could cloud his political …
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 9 MONTHS AGO
Nursing home disclosures taint Cuomo's pandemic performance
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo wrote a book on managing the COVID-19 crisis. Now he faces intensifying accusations that he covered up the true death toll of the pandemic on nursing home residents, attacks that challenge his reputation for straight-shooting competency and could cloud his political …
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 9 MONTHS AGO
Lauded early in pandemic, Cuomo now panned on nursing homes
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo wrote a book on managing the COVID-19 crisis. Now he faces intensifying accusations that he covered up the true death toll of the pandemic on nursing home residents, attacks that challenge his reputation for straight-shooting competency and could cloud his political …
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 9 MONTHS AGO
Surging virus, plummeting temperatures challenge shelters
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — After three years on the streets, Tiecha Vannoy and her boyfriend Chris Foss plan to weather the pandemic this winter in a small white “pod” with electricity, heat and enough room for two.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 10 MONTHS AGO
Surging virus, plummeting temperatures challenge shelters
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — After three years on the streets, Tiecha Vannoy and her boyfriend Chris Foss plan to weather the pandemic this winter in a small white “pod” with electricity, heat and enough room for two.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 10 MONTHS AGO
Surging virus, plummeting temperatures challenge shelters
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — After three years on the streets, Tiecha Vannoy and her boyfriend Chris Foss plan to weather the pandemic this winter in a small white “pod” with electricity, heat and enough room for two.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 10 MONTHS AGO
NRA pays $2.5M after NY probe into 'dangerous' insurance
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — The National Rifle Association is banned from marketing insurance in New York for five years and will pay $2.5 million to settle an investigation into “dangerous” policies promoted to gun owners as a way to cover costs in self-defense shootings, state financial regulators said Wednesday.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 12 MONTHS AGO
NRA pays $2.5M after NY probe into 'dangerous' insurance
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — The National Rifle Association is banned from marketing insurance in New York for five years and will pay $2.5 million to settle an investigation into “dangerous” policies promoted to gun owners as a way to cover costs in self-defense shootings, state financial regulators said Wednesday.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 12 MONTHS AGO
'X' gender NY driver's licenses coming with computer update
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — New York intends to offer driver’s licenses with a nonbinary gender identity marker of “X,” but it could take more than a year before Department of Motor Vehicles computers will be able to automatically handle the option, state officials said in court filings.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 12 MONTHS AGO
Anxiety and hope as New York votes on Election Day
NEW YORK (AP) — New Yorkers lined up to cast their final ballots Tuesday, braving a pandemic that added to their worries about ballot security and where the country is headed.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 4 YEARS AGO
Town built on guns ponders future after Remington plant sale
ILION, N.Y. (AP) — Workers at the sprawling Remington factory in this upstate New York village took pride in a local gunmaking tradition stretching back to the days of flintlock rifles. Now they're looking ahead with uncertainty.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 4 YEARS AGO
Town built on guns ponders future after Remington plant sale
ILION, N.Y. (AP) — Workers at the sprawling Remington factory in this upstate New York village took pride in a local gunmaking tradition stretching back to the days of flintlock rifles. Now they're looking ahead with uncertainty.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 4 YEARS AGO
Town built on guns ponders future after Remington plant sale
ILION, N.Y. (AP) — Workers at the sprawling Remington factory in this upstate New York village took pride in a local gunmaking tradition stretching back to the days of flintlock rifles. Now they're looking ahead with uncertainty.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 4 YEARS AGO
Voters line up in rain in New York on 3rd day of early vote
New Yorkers lined up to vote early for a third consecutive day Monday, many waiting under umbrellas, after a weekend that saw a crush of more than 400,000 voters statewide.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 4 YEARS AGO
School districts face hard choices amid pandemic-era cuts
SCHENECTADY, N.Y. (AP) — The school year in this old industrial city started with a whack of a budget ax. Teachers, classroom aides and counselors were among the hundreds laid off with potential state aid cuts looming.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 4 YEARS AGO
Jewish family's painting looted by Nazis in 1933 is returned
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — A painting of two young, 19th-century skaters that was looted by Nazis from a Jewish family in 1933 and recently discovered at a small museum in upstate New York was returned Thursday after 87 years.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 4 YEARS, 1 MONTH AGO
Jewish family's painting looted by Nazis in 1933 is returned
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — A painting of two young, 19th-century skaters that was looted by Nazis from a Jewish family in 1933 and recently discovered at a small museum in upstate New York was returned Thursday after 87 years.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 4 YEARS, 1 MONTH AGO
Jewish family's painting looted by Nazis in 1933 is returned
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — A painting of two young, 19th-century skaters that was looted by Nazis from a Jewish family in 1933 and recently discovered at a small museum in upstate New York was returned Thursday after 87 years.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 4 YEARS, 1 MONTH AGO
Jewish family's painting looted by Nazis in 1933 is returned
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — A painting of two young, 19th-century skaters that was looted by Nazis from a Jewish family in 1933 and recently discovered at a small museum in upstate New York was returned Thursday after 87 years.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 4 YEARS, 1 MONTH AGO
NY airports, hospitals feel pressure as virus alarms grow
NEW YORK (AP) — New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo said the state is scouring the globe for medical supplies and scouting temporary hospital locations as the coronavirus crisis grows. Flights to New York City-area airports were briefly suspended after an air-traffic control worker tested positive. As the number of confirmed …
DAILY INTER-LAKE | UPDATED 4 YEARS, 8 MONTHS AGO
New York bans gatherings, nonessential workers to stay home
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced sweeping orders Friday that will severely restrict gatherings of any size for the state's more than 19 million residents and will require workers in nonessential businesses to stay home.
DAILY INTER-LAKE | UPDATED 4 YEARS, 8 MONTHS AGO
At Sing Sing, a museum going in down the hall from inmates
OSSINING, N.Y. (AP) — Busting out of Sing Sing has been a dream of inmates since cell doors started clanging shut along the Hudson River in the 1820s. Now there’s a plan to usher visitors inside the high walls well known in the past to gangsters, Hollywood stars and prisoners …
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Big city, big worry: Pressure mounting to close NYC schools
NEW YORK (AP) — The coronavirus sapped New York City of its famous hustle and bustle Friday, with no Broadway, no basketball games, no big gatherings, a populace unnerved by an ever-worsening crisis and mounting pressure to close down public schools.
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Big city, big worry: Pressure mounting to close NYC schools
NEW YORK (AP) — The coronavirus sapped New York City of its famous hustle and bustle Friday, with no Broadway, no basketball games, no big gatherings, a populace unnerved by an ever-worsening crisis and mounting pressure to close down public schools.
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The city sleeps: New York bans big gatherings, museums close
NEW YORK (AP) — Museums prepared to shut their doors, the opera was silenced, lights dimmed on Broadway, big gatherings were banned and the subway was shunned as the largest city in the United States wound down Thursday amid a rise in coronavirus cases.
DAILY INTER-LAKE | UPDATED 4 YEARS, 8 MONTHS AGO
The specter of secession
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Evacuation plans readied as Buffalo flooding looms
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Buried in Buffalo
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Giffords not through with guns
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Hospitals try cooking up better food
POUGHKEEPSIE, N.Y. - Haute cuisine is to hospital food as coq au vin is to mystery meat, right?
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Chelsea Clinton weds at New York estate
RHINEBECK, N.Y. - Chelsea Clinton wed her longtime boyfriend under extraordinary security at an elegant Hudson River estate late Saturday.
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New York town gears up for Clinton wedding
RHINEBECK, N.Y. - Never mind that the details about Chelsea Clinton's wedding are being guarded like state secrets. The postcard-pretty town of Rhinebeck is ready for its close-up.
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