LG Delgado Cala for Biden to end his campaign “and make room for a new leader.” Delgado breaks with Gov. Hochul, who has been an ardent supporter of Biden running for reelection.

Update that Albany Water Department failed to mention in its post. The contractors killed the snake with an excavator after it began striking the machine.

Hi! I sat down with Governor Kathy Hochul at HEARST Tower today for a wide-ranging interview. Read about it from Raga Justin (and watch it): timesunion.com/state/article/…

I do think every Olympics we should randomly put one summer event in winter and vice versa

An Irish couple who have been on the lam from British police since 2018 were arrested in Ulster (N.Y.) last month. They’re allegedly part of a transnational crime org called the Traveling Conmen Fraud Group. Lana Bellamy with a wild one: timesunion.com/hudsonvalley/n…

From The Athletic: One of Brazil’s most famous Paralympians, Fernando Rufino, is nicknamed "Iron Cowboy." He has defied death on countless occasions. He was crushed by a bus, trampled by a bull, and struck by lightning – and that's not the half of it. nyti.ms/3MBBxyG

Accidentally unsealed court records are one of my favorite types of news stories. Good get by Daily Gazette dailygazette.com/news/ellis-hos…

A Bard College senior attempting to steal two paintings that had been smuggled out of Austria under the Nazis was captured using a thermal imaging drone, police say. And that’s not even the most interesting part! Local news continues to deliver: timesunion.com/hudsonvalley/n…

This genuinely saddens me. I worked for the Star-Ledger as a paperboy in the early 1970s and then as a high school sports correspondent later in that decade -- and learned about NJ politics from a string of legendary reporters. This is bad for NJ. newjerseyglobe.com/media/star-led…

FYI, Albany school zone camera violators. It could be worse!

Surprise, surprise: New York state Sen. James Skoufis has announced an ambitious bid to lead the DNC. Lana Bellamy will have an interview with him shortly. Stay tuned: timesunion.com/hudsonvalley/n…

NEW: Gina was at the center of a sex trafficking case involving a prominent 67-year-old Miami Beach doctor she’d met on Tinder. Gina, then 17, and a friend, who was 16, were discovered by Miami Beach police hiding in the closet of Dr. Jeffrey Kamlet’s oceanfront condo in April

📰 🎊 My 2024 reporting wrapped! 🚔I spent months getting police departments to cough up records on their officers' on-duty car crashes. After we found crashes were increasing, a NY lawmaker introduced a bill to increase their driver training timesunion.com/projects/2024/…

Wow: The City of Clarksdale, Mississippi, got a court order yesterday directing a newspaper to delete an editorial criticizing city officials -- without a hearing. Here's the TRO issuing the prior restraint:

Emil Bove, the acting deputy AG who is trying to get Mayor Adams' corruption conviction dismissed, was captain of the UAlbany lacrosse team. albany.edu/main/features/…

This was my first journalism job. I worked there for 10 months. It was a weird and wonderful introduction to daily journalism. cortlandstandard.com/stories/goodby…

Albany officials have also pointed to a drop in the development of new apartments after Common Council passed inclusionary zoning in 2023.

Senate Foreign Relations Chair Risch says the White House is pulling Stefanik nomination

NEW: Doctors mistakenly leave objects in surgery patients at least once every day in an average year, a HEARST investigation of thousands of cases since 2015 found. This rare but serious medical error has caused injuries and deaths across the U.S. timesunion.com/projects/2025/…

Via Joanna Stern, Trump's tariffs could increase the cost of an iPhone by almost $300 (or 54%):