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By Ashley Hupfl | The Daily Gazette, Schenectady After the state Senate passed a package of bills aimed at supporting farmers and food producers on Tuesday, concerns about the state’s agricultural industry and the state’s transition to renewable energy remained. The Senate’s 10-bill package included legislation to establish a farming hotline with the Cornell Cooperative…

St. Joseph’s Physicians announced Hannah Walsh has joined St. Joseph’s Physicians Primary Care in Fayetteville. Walsh is a family nurse practitioner who has been a registered nurse in the St. Joseph’s Health Hospital’s cardiovascular intensive care unit since 2016. Prior to joining St. Joseph’s, she spent a year in North Carolina as a registered nurse…

New York — A federal appeals court on Friday reinstated bribery and fraud charges against former New York Lt. Gov. Brian Benjamin. The decision by the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Manhattan reversed a December 2022 ruling by a lower-court judge that wiped out the bulk of the case against the Democrat, leaving…

With season three of Abbott Elementary back into full gear, I have been thinking a lot about the character growth of our fave, Janine Teagues. As an audience, we met Janine as the wide-eyed, eager new teacher with lots of ideas and little experience. She wanted to change lives in the same school system she…

A Chick-fil-A franchise owner has been arrested after allegedly driving more than 400 miles to sexually abuse a teenager, according to police in North Carolina. The Rowan County Sheriff’s Office said they were called to a home in Rowan County, N.C., after receiving reports of a breaking or entering incident. WSB-TV reports the home’s owner…

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Four Colgate players scored in double figures as the top-seeded Raiders beat Holy Cross 81-64 in the quarterfinals of the Patriot League men’s basketball tournament on Thursday night at Cotterell Court in Hamilton. Colgate will host fifth-seeded Bucknell on Sunday at 2 p.m in a semifinal game. The Bison beat fourth-seeded American 80-57 in another…

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden turned his State of the Union speech Thursday night into an animated argument for a second term as he laced into GOP front-runner Donald Trump for espousing “resentment, revenge and retribution” and jeopardizing freedom at home and abroad. Over and over, Biden delivered broadsides at “my predecessor” without mentioning…

New York — Steve Lawrence, a singer and top stage act who as a solo performer and in tandem with his wife Eydie Gorme kept Tin Pan Alley alive during the rock era, died Thursday. He was 88. Lawrence, whose hits included “Go Away Little Girl,” died from complications due to Alzheimer’s disease, said Susan…

New York — Several New York City employees were arrested Thursday for their alleged role in a scheme to steal the identities of homeless shelter residents and defraud a pandemic-era relief program. Manhattan prosecutors brought charges against 18 people, including five employees of the city’s homeless services agency, an NYPD officer, an MTA worker, and…