Saturday, August 2, 2025

Daily Digest: Protecting the FD to protect the public, Cohoes receives $125K from McDonald

Also: ‘Very Saratoga event’: The Saratoga Hospital Gala brings charity poolside • Jeannie Seely, soulful country singer behind hits like ‘Don’t Touch Me,’ dies at 85
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Saturday, August 2, 2025

 
 

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Protecting the FD to protect the public, Cohoes receives $125K from McDonald

COHOES, N.Y. — Assemblymember John McDonald presented the Cohoes Fire Department with $125,000 in discretionary funding this week. All headed to their self-contained breathing apparatus (SCBA), Chi…

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'Very Saratoga event': The Saratoga Hospital Gala brings charity poolside

SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. — Nearly 1,000 people gathered in two white tents at Saratoga Casino's Polo Meadow for the 43rd Saratoga Hospital Gala earlier in the week. One of the hospital's three annual…

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Jeannie Seely, soulful country singer behind hits like 'Don't Touch Me,' dies at 85

Known as 'Miss Country Soul,' Seely was a trailblazer for women in country music.

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Jury orders Tesla to pay more than $240 million in Autopilot crash case

The federal jury held that Tesla bore significant responsibility because its technology failed

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Judge allows the National Science Foundation to withhold hundreds of millions of research dollars

The judge declined to force the NSF to restart payments immediately.

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Hot dog spill shuts down highway in Pennsylvania commuters' wurst nightmare

Crews were stuck with a job they did not relish — rolling up the scattered tube steaks for disposal.

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Judge pauses Trump administration's push to expand fast-track deportations

The ruling could benefit hundreds of thousands of people.

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AMA and other medical associations are kicked out of CDC vaccine workgroups

'I'm concerned and distressed,' said one vaccine expert.

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Trump administration freezes $339M in UCLA grants and accuses the school of rights violations

This is one of the rare cases the federal government has targeted a public university.

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Boy, 13, dies after getting trapped in a storm drain during East Coast flooding

Floodwaters rushed into the area and the boy was swept into the pipe.

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Manhunt launched after 4 killed in a shooting at a Montana bar

Authorities are searching for a suspect.

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Veteran federal judge T.S. Ellis III, who presided over trial of Trump aide Paul Manafort, has died

Ellis died Wednesday at his home in Keswick, according to the Cremation Society of Virginia.

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