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Village of Cobleskill hires new police chief

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:36:29 GMT

COBLESKILL, N.Y. (NEWS10) -- The Village of Cobleskill has hired a new police chief. The mayor confirmed to NEWS10 that former New York State Investigator James McGrum was hired by the village board on Wednesday night. Get the latest news, weather, sports and entertainment delivered right to your inbox! McGrum will lead the department along with the new lieutenant supervisor George Bird, who was hired after eight officers resigned in July over a dispute about overtime pay. Village leaders said the amount of money going towards overtime pay for police was unsustainable.

Saratoga boat launch dedicated to former supervisor

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:36:29 GMT

SARATOGA, N.Y. (NEWS10) -- The town of Saratoga came together on Friday to honor the life of one of its former leaders. The town's boat launch was dedicated to former supervisor Thomas Wood, who passed away in July.He served the community in a variety of roles for more than 40 years, including helping protect farmland and expand recreational spaces like the boat launch. Get the latest news, weather, sports and entertainment delivered right to your inbox! "People can come and launch their kayaks and launch their boats for recreational purposes, for fishing purposes, that we built in the town over the past six years, and it's developed into a great property that we want people to utilize all the time," Saratoga Town Supervisor Ian Murray said.Town leaders developed the boat launch for six years after buying the property from the New York State Canal Corporation.

Cardona's Market unveils sandwich named in honor of legendary jockey

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:36:29 GMT

SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. (NEWS10) -- A renowned jockey was in Saratoga Springs on Friday to take the first bite of a new sandwich coming to Cardona's Markets that was named in his honor. It's called "The Mig," and it's celebrating Richard Migliore's 29-year long career as a jockey. Get the latest news, weather, sports and entertainment delivered right to your inbox! Cardona's is donating $2,500 from the sales of the sandwich to Migliore's favorite charities: The Permanently Disabled Jockeys Fund and the Thoroughbred Retirement Fund."They're two causes very close to my heart," Migliore said. "Obviously, being a former rider, I am always concerned with the health and welfare of jockeys and horses. Horses gave me everything, so its incumbent on me to give back to the horses, and I really appreciate their generosity."

Endurance swimmer previews 315-mile Hudson River swim

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:36:29 GMT

ALBANY, N.Y. (NEWS10) -- Legendary British endurance swimmer Lewis Pugh previewed his plan to swim the 315-mile Hudson River to raise awareness of the importance of clean waters. Get the latest news, weather, sports and entertainment delivered right to your inbox! Pugh, the UNEP Patron of the Oceans, has pioneered swims in the most challenging environments on earth, including the Antarctic, the North Pole, the Red Sea, and the Himalayas. If successful, he will be the first person to swim the full length of the Hudson River unassisted. Pugh's expedition is scheduled to begin in the Adirondack Mountains on Sunday and conclude in Manhattan on September 13.

Rally outside Jeffco DA’s office calls for arrest in fatal shooting at Tesla charging station in Edgewater

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:36:29 GMT

More than 100 people marched Friday afternoon in 90-degree heat on parking-lot blacktop outside the Jefferson County District Attorney’s Office, chanting, carrying signs and demanding justice for a young man — a father of two — who was shot dead in Edgewater.Adam Michael Fresquez, 33, was fatally shot May 3 in the Edgewater Public Market parking lot near a Tesla charging station. No charges have been filed in the case, although authorities have interviewed the man who shot Fresquez.Police previously said both men were driving Teslas and got into a fight at the charging station prior to the shooting, an altercation they said could have stemmed from a road-rage incident.Family members, friends, community supporters, seniors and children gathered in Golden to demand accountability in the case.“We are looking for justice and we want some answers,” said Juan Mendez, Fresquez’s father.“We don’t understand how he was released two hours after ...

Bestselling author thwarts Calabasas home invasion; would-be burglars caught on camera

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:36:29 GMT

A Calabasas homeowner and author thwarted a home invasion Thursday night thanks to cameras in his yard, and the would-be burglars were caught on video.Lee Goldberg was home with his wife and daughter, when around 9:20 p.m., they got a notification on their iPad from their motion sensor.But it wasn’t the occasional bobcat or coyote they’re used to seeing. Goldberg's cameras captured four masked men climbing up a steep hillside into his backyard.They were dressed in hoodies, gloves and appeared to even be matching, the bestselling author of crime thrillers told KTLA.Video provided by Lee Goldberg shows would-be theives crawl out of bushes in Calabasas on Aug. 10, 2023. But this was not fiction. Goldberg had become a real-life character he often writes about in his novels.“They looked organized, they looked professional,” he said.That’s when he alerted authorities, and the would-be theives turned around and went right back down the hill they came from.Goldberg said he thinks they saw h...

Man seen on TikTok video lurking near women's legs in Burbank store arrested

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:36:29 GMT

A man who was captured on a TikTok video lurking near women’s legs at a Burbank bookstore was arrested on Friday.The suspect’s name was not released, but Burbank Police confirmed the man believed to be responsible was located and arrested in Glendale.“The incident was reported directly to the Burbank Police and has been under investigation,” police said. “The incident was captured on video and viewed as an invasion of privacy. Investigators are also aware of other potential victims.”In a video posted to social media, the victim, 28-year-old Michaela Witter, was shopping at a Barnes & Noble on Aug. 7 when she noticed a strange man had been following her around.A TikTok video captures a man lurking extremely close to a woman's legs while she was shopping in a Burbank Barnes & Noble. (Michaela Witter)A TikTok video captures a man lurking extremely close to a woman's legs while she was shopping in a Burbank Barnes & Noble. (Michaela Witter)A TikTok video captures a man lurking extre...

4 men arrested for murder and robbery of Long Beach man

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:36:29 GMT

Four suspects were arrested on Friday in connection with the murder of a man that took place on July 11 in Long Beach. According to a Long Beach police department news release, authorities arrested two adult men, 18-year-old Luis Jesus Hernandez-Perez of Long Beach and 18-year-old Dangelo Antolin Rodriguez of Lakewood, Washington and two juvenile men, a 16-year-old and 17-year-old of Long Beach. On July 11 near Loma Vista Drive and Corvo Court, several men physically assaulted the victim, 26-year-old Canaan Oryema Okatch of Long Beach, and fired multiple gunshots toward him, resulting in the victim’s death. The suspects fled the scene before officers arrived. Hernandez-Perez and Rodriguez were charged with murder and robbery and the juvenile men were charged with assault with a deadly weapon and robbery.  Both juveniles are being held without bail, while Hernandez-Perez is being held on $2,000,000 bail and Rodriguez is being held on $3,000,000 bail. Authorit...

Why Hip-Hop Has Many Fathers

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:36:29 GMT

They “don’t mean to brag, don’t mean to boast” — but 50 years later, pretenders to the hip-hop throne are, in a roundabout way, taking the rap for perpetuating one of the longest feuds in Black cultural history.Rap music, rap, or rappin’, the rhyming locution of inner-city neighborhood youth that was, to pimp a line from Audre Lorde, created out of their will to survive on Black terms in early 1970s New York, purportedly turns 50 today. Purportedly, because along with that historic milestone has come its own dysfunctional family of putative patriarchs, each challenging the notion of a single creator of rap music, each assuring that an enduring noise over the validity of the tales told by the genre’s self-avowed founding fathers will continue to beg the question “Who’s your daddy?” — or your mama? —for years to come. While vying for recognition, myriad mountebanks and triflers, who came late to one of the longest feuds in Black cultural history, are bragging and boasting with self-ri...

Don Blankenship Calls on the United States Supreme Court to Reign In the Politico-Media Complex

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:36:29 GMT

The Growing Threat to Democracy Posed by Irresponsible Journalism, Shielded Behind New York Times Co. v. Sullivan (1964)Sullivan Sets the StageThe First Amendment to the United States Constitution guarantees that “Congress shall make no law . . . abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press.” Prior to 1964 that guarantee had never shielded the press from being held civilly liable for publishing a defamatory statement. But in 1964, 173 years after the Constitution was written the United States Supreme Court unconstitutionally constitutionalized defamation in the case of New York Times Co. v. Sullivan.  The New York Times had published multiple defamatory claims against the Montgomery Police Department in an advertisement paid for by civil rights activists. Montgomery Police Commissioner L. B. Sullivan sued the newspaper alleging that the libelous publication impugned his character and damaged his reputation as police commissioner. An Alabama jury decided in Sullivan’s favor. The ...