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NYSNYS NEWS headlines posted on Saturday, May 29, 2021.
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NYSNYS News Headlines 5/29/21

Cuomo faces criticism for ordering Memorial Day, the holiday to honor men and women in armed forced who died defending nation, to include memorial to 'essential workers' who died from covid19.
WGRZ Buffalo Today

Washington, D.C. teachers union president Elizabeth Davis was DWI and speeding when she crashed on Easter Sunday, killing herself and another driver, a Maryland musician coming back from church.
Washington Post Today

Post editorial: Albany proposal to let gig economy workers form unions would screw both workers and the public.
NY Post Today

Dianna Morales calls her collapsing mayor campaign 'a beautiful mess' as staffers rebel and try to form a union.
NY Post Today

Court of Appeals clears way for a homeless shelter to open in the middle of Manhattan's Billionaire's Row of high rises.
NY Post Today

Federal prosecutors subpoena Patrick Jenkins, top Albany lobbyist who is close to Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie.
NY Post Today

Over Giuliani's objections, court will let a special master examine all 18 of his phones and electronic devices seized in raids. Illegal lobbying for Ukraine suspected.
NY Daily News Today

Daily News editorial: Far left mayor candidate Dianne Morales' campaign has turned into a farce, paid for with $3.65 million in taxpayer money thanks to public campaign financing.
NY Daily News Today

Man stabbed to death at Lower East Side skateboard park.
NY Daily News Today

E29 Labs details proposal open a marijuana operation in former Beech-Nut plant in Canajoharie.
Schenectady Gazette Today

Schenectady editorial: Cuomo, who once exercised total control over business covid19 safety, now shirking his responsibility by unfairly making businesses enforce health protocols.
Schenectady Gazette Today

Legislators pass bill to require all jails and prisons in NYS to treat inmates who are drug addicts.
Times Union Today

Sale of 36,000-acre Whitney Adirondack estate proving difficult, so owner John Hendrickson now wants to subdivide the property into 11 lots of about 3,200 acres each. He won't sell it to NYS.
Times Union Today

After being put on back burner by Trump, U.S. DOT approves $11 billion Gateway Tunnel project across Hudson River linking NJ, NYC.
Glens Falls Post Star Today

Researchers at the Cornell Biological Field Station at Shackleton Point caught the largest fish ever recorded from Oneida Lake: a 73.6-inch sturgeon, 159 pounds. Lake was stocked with species in 1995.
Syracuse Post Standard Today

Truck slams into railroad bridge on Onondaga Lake Parkway. Driver ignored many signs of low bridge.
Syracuse Post Standard Today

Seth Larson, 40, sought for question in murder and dismemberment of girlfriend Lisa Schuler, 37, at her Irondequoit home.
Syracuse Post Standard Today

Earthquake reported in Livingston County near Rochester.
Rochester Democrat and Chronicle Today

Letter: UUP president Kowal says Buffalo News editorial on SUNY staff and covid19 vaccines wrongly criticizes the union.
Buffalo News Today

Buffalo woman, 26, shot dead on city street.
Buffalo News Today

Shooting and homicides have nearly doubled in Buffalo this year.
Buffalo News Today

SUNY Buffalo State says professor's mildly critical remarks about BLM were taken out of context by critics and were made as part of a teaching exercise to engage students. Social media mob seized on it.
Buffalo News Today

In GOP primary for Erie County sheriff, the question of which candidate is more loyal to Trump is a main issue. At same time, both candidates have history of party switching.
Buffalo News Today

NYS covid19 infection rate drops to 0.6 percent, lowest level since start of pandemic. Minorities still not getting vaccinated. Buffalo News story offers Cuomo statement, references 'Alaskan Natives.'
Buffalo News Today

Former Assembly Speaker Silver, 77, taken to prison hospital for treatment of cancer and other health issues.
Newsday Today

Federal prosecutors investigating Patrick Jenkins, the 'go-to lobbyist' for people seeking insider access to Assembly Speaker Heastie. They are former SUNY roommates and he's cashed in ever since.
The New York Times Today

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