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ValleyCats hosting Darryl Strawberry for community event

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 09:08:20 GMT

TROY, N.Y. (NEWS10) -- County Executive Steve McLaughlin announced today that Rensselaer County and the Tri-City ValleyCats are teaming up to welcome baseball legend Darryl Strawberry to speak about the dangers of drug abuse, as well as recovery from addiction. The event is scheduled for June 1. Get the latest, news, weather, sports and community events delivered right to your inbox! Strawberry will be a guest speaker at the Rensselaer County Heroin Coalition meeting. The Coalition brings together health professionals, drug counselors, law enforcement, advocates and addiction survivors to communicate and strategize ways to end the opioid crisis. “Rensselaer County is invested and has worked to beat back the scourge of drug addiction in the county. We are excited to have an outstanding baseball star like Darryl Strawberry joining us to speak of his struggles and show there is a way to battle and win against addiction.” said McLaughlin. Troy approves neighborhood improvement pr...

Budget breakdown: Details on late State budget

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 09:08:20 GMT

ALBANY, N.Y. (NEWS10) – This week on Empire State Weekly, the New York State Budget was completed on May 2, over 30 days late. The final approved budget contained funding for multiple state programs and implemented policy changes. Get the latest, news, weather, sports and community events delivered right to your inbox! Blair Horner the Executive Director for the New York Public Interest Research Group and Capitol Correspondent Jamie DeLine spoke on the biggest items on the budget. Blair Horner addressed the long delay with the budget debate process, which will likely impact the remainder of the session. Horner explained the first half of the session "deals with the budget. The second half deals with non-budget issues. They just gobbled up a month of that. So it's going to be a lot harder to get a lot of things done, but there's a lot of pent-up demand from advocacy groups and lawmakers to deal with other issues." So far the session is scheduled to end on June 8. "At this point, ...

Dog Show 101: What's what at the Westminster Kennel Club

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 09:08:20 GMT

NEW YORK (AP) — To the casual viewer, competing at the Westminster Kennel Club dog show might look pretty simple. Here are the ins and outs of the show, which starts Saturday at the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center in New York. Get the latest, news, weather, sports and community events delivered right to your inbox! Get a dog. Groom it. Pose it. Lead it around a ring. But there's a lot more to it when getting to and exhibiting in the most prestigious canine event in the U.S., now in its 147th year. How many dogs compete?Twenty-five hundred dogs from 210 different breeds and varieties signed up to vie for the best in show trophy that gets awarded Tuesday night. Varieties are subsets of breeds—think smooth, longhaired, and wirehaired dachshunds. Pet adoption event Saturday in Glens Falls Hailing from 49 states and 13 countries, contestants range from tiny Chihuahuas to giant Great Danes. They include familiar breeds like Labrador retrievers, rarities such as the slough...

Was Letecia Stauch psychotic or strategic? Jury begins deliberations in killing of 11-year-old Gannon Stauch

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 09:08:20 GMT

National Center for Missing and Exploited Children via APGannon StauchAn El Paso County jury is deciding whether a woman who killed her 11-year-old stepson was sane when she stabbed and shot the child or suffered a mental break so extreme that she cannot be held legally responsible for her actions.Letecia Stauch’s defense attorney did not dispute that the mother and former special education teacher killed her stepson, Gannon Stauch, but said she suffered a mental break before she killed him and has disassociated since the Jan. 27, 2020, killing.“It was her,” Josh Tolini, Stauch’s defense attorney, said during closing arguments. “But she was not in her right mind when she did it.”Testimony in the month-long trial in Colorado Springs drew to a close Friday, more than three years after Gannon’s disappearance prompted massive searches and drew national media attention. Stauch, 39, pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity to charges of murder, ta...

Copper Mountain Resort announces single largest investment in a decade with new lodge, biking trails, ski run improvements and more on the way

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 09:08:20 GMT

By CODY JONES, Summit Daily NewsEven though the 2022-23 ski and ride season is coming to a close at Copper Mountain Resort on Sunday, May 7, guests have plenty to look forward to next winter at the resort.On Thursday, May 4, Copper gave guests a taste of what is to be expected next season by announcing several new upgrades. According to the resort, the combination of these upgrades make for the single largest investment by the resort in more than a decade.Projects are taking place both on and off the mountain, with the largest being the opening of the new mid-mountain lodge — the Aerie. Located at the top of the American Eagle lift, the Aerie will consist of a 25,000-square-foot, two-story building, and the gondola will unload on the second-floor deck, which will allow for a seamless transition for all guests, including those arriving by foot.Guests will be able to enjoy an elevated dining experience during both the summer and winter months. With a full-service restaurant, bar...

Search for missing El Paso County sheriff’s deputy in RMNP suspended

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 09:08:20 GMT

An El Paso County sheriff’s deputy, recently reported missing and found in metro Denver, has gone missing again — in the Wild Basin area in Rocky Mountain National Park, according to federal rangers who on Friday suspended a search and appealed for help.Deputy Kevin Sypher was last seen on Sunday afternoon in the Sandbeach Lake parking lot near the Wild Basin Entrance Station with a family member, and park officials were notified on Monday, according to an announcement by park spokeswoman Kyle Patterson. “He is reported to have willingly walked away from a vehicle he was traveling in,” Patterson said.Sypher had been reported missing from Parker on April 27 and on April 29 was located in the Denver area and reunited with his family.Related ArticlesColorado News | Rocky Mountain National Park to move to cashless fee collection next month Colorado News | Rocky Mountain National Park announces summer seasonal Hiker Shuttle operations be...

Laguna Hills fentanyl dealer gets 20 years in prison after 2 ODs in 6 weeks

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 09:08:20 GMT

A Laguna Hills drug dealer was sentenced Friday to 20 years in federal prison after a pair of his customers overdosed on fentanyl in a six-week span in 2021.Jason Amin Soheili, 28, pleaded guilty in December to two counts of distribution of fentanyl resulting in death, the U.S. Department of Justice said in a news release. He was arrested in May 2021, weeks after the fatal overdoses in February and April of that year. Cerritos man charged with running organization that sold fentanyl on the darknet The February victim, a Utah resident only identified by the initials "J.N.," was mailed fake oxycodone pills that were laced with fentanyl. "On February 21, 2021, J.N. ingested at least one of the pills and died of fentanyl toxicity," the release said.Officials said previously that J.N. had dropped out of a rehabilitation program the month before his death. 11 people face charges for allegedly selling fentanyl, other opioids that led to overdose deaths, L.A. prosecutors say On April 1,...

California assemblymember calls for federal government to intervene in AI advancement

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 09:08:20 GMT

Republican Assemblymember Bill Essayli introduced a resolution in the California State Assembly on Thursday that would urge the United States government to pause the development of artificial intelligence.The resolution, formally known as AJR 6, would urge the federal government to impose “an immediate moratorium on the training of AI systems more powerful than GPT-4 for at least six months to allow time to develop much-needed AI governance systems,” according to the bill’s text. Learning to lie: AI tools adept at creating disinformation “The rapid pace at which advanced AI systems like GPT-4 are developing is alarming and unprecedented. We must proceed with caution and consult with experts in the tech industry who are sounding the alarm about this technology," Assemblyman Essayli said in a statement.Some leaders in the tech industry, like former Google computer scientist Geoffrey Hinton, also known as the “Godfather of AI,” have sounded the alarm about the rapid improvement of th...

Telling Ryan’s Story: Making The Most Important Film Of A Generation

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 09:08:20 GMT

Suicide is the second leading cause of death for young adults 10 to 24 years of age; suicide rates for this age group increased 52.2% between 2000-2021.Something needs to be done to put a stop to teen suicide, now. One grieving Southern Californian father is leading a charge to do just that. On this week’s episode of the LA Weekly Weekly podcast, Host and Publisher Brian Calle sits down with his longtime friend Jason Reid for a deep and emotionally charged conversation about teen suicide. Reid is a leader in the youth mental health advocacy realm and one of the foremost advocates in the space trying to help kids and make real change. He’s also a grieving father. In 2018, Jason Reid and his wife, the parents of four teens, went away for the weekend, only to experience the most harrowing moment for any parent: their youngest son Ryan — age 14 — texted to say he was going to kill himself.In memory of Ryan, Reid set about on a mission to save other teens and families from this unimagina...

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Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 09:08:20 GMT

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