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NYSNYS News headlines on Tuesday, September 20, 2022.
NYSNYS News
NYSNYS News headlines on Tuesday, September 20, 2022

Trump lawyers admits secret documents investigation may lead to indictments.
Washington Post Today
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2022/09/19/trump-dearie-special-master/

Amex, Visa, Mastercard under growing pressure to abandon decision to track gun purchases. Some see next step as a new code to track abortion providers. Attorney General James cited.
Wall Street Journal Today
https://www.wsj.com/articles/visa-mastercard-amex-face-calls-from-gop-attorneys-general-to-abandon-gun-shop-code-11663674954

Republicans gearing up court challenges to block Biden's executive order forgiving college student loans.
Wall Street Journal Today
https://www.wsj.com/articles/legal-challenges-to-student-debt-forgiveness-loom-before-midterms-11663673584?mod=hp_lead_pos6

Oneida Indians announce 'seed to sale' marijuana growing business. 50,000 square foot production facility, retail shops will be build on reservation land.
Utica Observer Dispatch Today
https://www.uticaod.com/story/news/2022/09/20/oneida-indian-nation-to-launch-marijuana-cannabais-operation/69503713007/

Former Assembly and House member Brindisi sworn in as Court of Claims judge in Utica area. He was defeated by Tenney, and lost 2021 comeback bid for State Supreme Court judgeship.
Utica Observer Dispatch Today
https://www.uticaod.com/story/news/local/2022/09/20/anthony-brindisi-sworn-in-as-ny-court-of-claims-judge/69504446007/

Op-ed by Rep. Sean Maloney details how Inflation Reduction Act signed by Biden will benefit NYS.
Utica Observer Dispatch Today
https://www.uticaod.com/story/opinion/2022/09/20/inflation-reduction-act-how-ny-will-benefit/69505860007/

Hochul claim she didn't know campaign donor who got a $637 million no bid contract looks to be a lie. Charlie Tebele, founder of Digital Gadgets LLC, threw her an in person fundraiser a month before deal closed.
Times Union Today
https://www.timesunion.com/state/article/A-month-before-landing-637M-executive-threw-17452245.php

Former Senator Metzger is Democratic candidate for Ulster County executive. GOP candidate is James Quigley, Ulster town supervisor. Pat Ryan vacancy.
Times Union Today
https://www.timesunion.com/hudsonvalley/news/article/Ulster-County-executive-race-pits-Metzger-against-17453168.php

Schenectady apartment building evacuated after discovery of apparent methamphetamine drug lab.
Times Union Today
https://www.timesunion.com/news/article/Building-emptied-hazmat-team-called-after-meth-17451676.php

Assembly member Santabarbara says plans still on track to create a working group to look at operation of group homes for disabled.
Times Union Today
https://www.timesunion.com/state/article/Group-homes-17452527.php

Hochul sending Troopers to Puerto Rico to help with hurricane recovery.
Times Union Today
https://www.timesunion.com/state/article/Hochul-to-send-State-Police-troopers-to-Puerto-17451824.php

Brooklyn power broker Frank Carone, who helped make Adams mayor, leaving City Hall job. He says he will run reelection campaign in 2025.
The New York Times Today
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/19/nyregion/frank-carone-eric-adams.html

Covid-19 economic downturn has created a potential $10 billion budget gap for NYC.
The New York Times Today
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/19/nyregion/budget-crisis-economy-nyc.html

Horror movie 'The Hermit' being shot in Syracuse shuts down after financing falls through. 'Incredible Hulk' actor Lou Ferrigno plays a cannibal pig farmer who cooks people and makes them into jerky.
Syracuse Post Standard Today
https://www.syracuse.com/entertainment/2022/09/syracuse-horror-movie-suspends-production-after-actors-injury-crew-walkout.html

CNY apple orchard will start growing marijuana.
Syracuse Post Standard Today
https://www.syracuse.com/marijuana/2022/09/cnys-best-known-apple-orchard-plans-a-big-move-into-the-marijuana-business.html

Heather J. Wills, 38, of Geddes, charged with drugged driving after head on crash on Route 690 in Van Buren sends 3 to hospital.
Syracuse Post Standard Today
https://www.syracuse.com/crime/2022/09/central-ny-woman-charged-with-driving-impaired-by-drugs-after-head-on-route-690-crash-police-say.html

Assemblyman Charles D. Fall organized Port Richmond community cleanup that produced 200 bags of trash.
Staten Island Advance Today
https://www.silive.com/news/2022/09/assemblyman-fall-helps-collect-200-bags-of-trash-in-port-richmond-clean-up.html

Union College President David R. Harris’ contract has been extended through June 30, 2027
Schenectady Gazette Today
https://dailygazette.com/2022/09/19/union-extends-harris-contract-through-end-of-2027-academic-year-contract-had-been-set-to-expire-end-of-current-school-year/

Schenectady editorial: Taxpayers deserve an investigation before election day of why Hochul donor got $637 million no bid contract for covid19 tests that cost the state 45 percent more than what California paid.
Schenectady Gazette Today
https://dailygazette.com/2022/09/19/editorial-public-deserves-answers-on-covid-test-purchase/

Six charges in cocaine, methamphetamine drug ring in Saratoga County.
Schenectady Gazette Today
https://dailygazette.com/2022/09/19/saratoga-sheriff-six-charged-in-saratoga-county-drug-sales-cocaine-methamphetamine-sales-uncovered/

Wappingers Falls, Dutchess County’s largest school district, failed to seek bids for roughly two-thirds of the professional service providers it used during a 16-month period. $5 million in contracts.
Poughkeepsie Journal Today
https://www.poughkeepsiejournal.com/story/news/education/2022/09/19/wappingers-failed-to-seek-competitive-bids-comptroller-audit/69499870007/

Cuomo update: Andrew spent $166 million to buy 8,555 ventilators and $86M for X-ray machines for covid19. None were ever used and now sit in warehouses. There is also 700,000 gallons of expired hand sanitizer.
Politico/Capital NY Today
https://www.politico.com/news/2022/09/20/ny-ventilators-covid-national-guard-00056603

Adams says migrant asylum seeker committed suicide in homeless shelter.
Politico/Capital NY Today
https://www.politico.com/news/2022/09/19/asylum-seeker-suicide-new-york-city-00057546

NY1 weatherman Eric Adame fired after online gay pornography performance surfaces.
NY Post Today
https://nypost.com/2022/09/19/nyc-weatherman-fired-after-webcam-nudes-sent-to-boss/

Ex-con John Haggerty linked to Zeldin ballot signature fraud. He went to prison for stealing from Bloomberg campaign.
NY Post Today
https://nypost.com/2022/09/19/ex-ballot-fraud-con-john-haggerty-jr-faked-signatures-to-boost-lee-zeldin-ballot-line-da/

Federal judge dismisses 'frivolous' lawsuit brought by court officer union leader Quirk against former Chief Judge DiFiore. He made ugly threats.
NY Post Today
https://nypost.com/2022/09/19/court-tosses-ex-chief-judge-janet-difiore-defamation-suit/

Hochul criticizes Manhattan district attorney Bragg over handling of man who swung ax at McDonald's customers in Manhattan.
NY Post Today
https://nypost.com/2022/09/19/hochul-says-da-bragg-went-soft-on-mcdonalds-ax-man/

Adams won't say if he will sue Democratic mayor of El Paso, TX, who is also busing migrants to NYC.
NY Post Today
https://nypost.com/2022/09/19/eric-adams-wont-say-if-hell-sue-texas-democrat-over-nyc-migrant-buses/

Schumer wants taxpayers to give another $12 billion to support Ukrainian war effort.
NY Post Today
https://nypost.com/2022/09/18/schumer-calls-for-12b-more-in-us-aid-for-ukraines-war-effort/

Gunmen on scooters shoot 4 people in Queens, killing 1 in broad daylight.
NY Post Today
https://nypost.com/2022/09/18/scooter-riding-nyc-gunmen-shoot-four-people-in-broad-daylight/

Migrant buses continue to arrive in NYC from Texas.
NY Post Today
https://nypost.com/2022/09/18/record-number-of-buses-with-migrants-roll-into-nycs-port-authority/

David Paterson compares those upset with migrant buses coming to NYC to the liberals who one opposed racial integration.
NY Post Today
https://nypost.com/2022/09/18/former-ny-gov-david-paterson-compares-dems-upset-over-migrant-buses-to-liberal-anti-integrationists/

Two shot for standing up to muggers in separate incidents in NYC, including a tourist from Denmark.
NY Post Today
https://nypost.com/2022/09/18/tourist-shot-in-back-after-refusing-robber-in-nyc-cops/

Post editorial: It's now clear accidental Gov. Hochul puts the wants of her campaign donors ahead of New Yorkers. Her obsessive fundraising is made possible by doing bidding of donors.
NY Post Today
https://nypost.com/2022/09/19/how-much-in-favors-does-34-million-in-donations-buy-governor/

Adams ends covid19 vaccine mandate for private sector workers, student athletes, but not city employees.
NY Daily News Today
https://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/new-york-elections-government/ny-nyc-mayor-adams-ends-covid-vaccine-mandates-private-sector-student-athletes-20220920-enjs3jwlnrbiro7tzfhwextkpq-story.html

Number of FDNY members dead from 9/11 related diseases rises to more than 300.
NY Daily News Today
https://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/ny-fdny-members-died-911-illness-20220920-cghitffv6japzayug6ltff5so4-story.html

DiNapoli audit finds Brooklyn homeless shelter run by Institute for Community Living wasted $2.4 million.
NY Daily News Today
https://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/new-york-elections-government/ny-comptroller-tom-dinapli-audits-brooklyn-homeless-shelter-waste-20220919-rvczwi3zhjcsppewpey4ivuaxi-story.html

Man stabbed on subway in Brooklyn when he refused to give his cellphone to two muggers.
NY Daily News Today
https://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/nyc-crime/ny-man-stabbed-brooklyn-subway-train-muggers-cellphone-20220920-tfczkrs5ivfkxiksupgb5g3wnm-story.html

Hochul says she will send troopers to Puerto Rico, drones to Dominican Republic for help with Hurricane Fiona recovery.
NY Daily News Today
https://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/new-york-elections-government/ny-hurricane-fiona-governor-hochul-assistance-puerto-rico-domincan-republic-20220919-onmhmomfazex3dqjsvsxhpunum-story.html

Adams plans free WiFi internet for public housing in NYC, at a cost of $30 million.
NY Daily News Today
https://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/new-york-elections-government/ny-nyc-mayor-adams-free-wifi-nycha-residents-20220919-32uuf4c3gfg3ncdksnwdrlhh3e-story.html

Cuomo update: Andrew op-ed says NY and the U.S. owes Puerto Rico.
NY Daily News Today
https://www.nydailynews.com/opinion/ny-oped-puerto-rico-hurricane-20220920-g54kuyarvvgopfyfx5h4ixombq-story.html

Op-ed: Yeshiva Jewish school students need help in improving their inadequate educational system. It is particular bad for girls.
NY Daily News Today
https://www.nydailynews.com/opinion/ny-oped-how-to-solve-the-yeshiva-problem-20220918-w7gc6dpoibhcjcgxrph4dqnqii-story.html

Op-ed: NYS wrong to cut $250 million from safety net providers who provide vital healthcare to students.
Newsday Today
https://www.newsday.com/opinion/commentary/guest-essays/health-care-covid-medicaid-340b-gwk1leoa

Nassau County Legislature approves $200,000 settlement for false arrest of Damien Coleman, 49, now of Jericho. He says he didn't know passenger in his car had cocaine and marijuana.
Newsday Today
https://www.newsday.com/long-island/politics/nassau-legislature-meet-kzow97rl

Ransomware hackers start publishing Suffolk County records online. County shut down all online operations on September 8 and have given no date for when they will resume.
Newsday Today
https://www.newsday.com/long-island/politics/suffolk-ransom-cyber-bellone-attack-y0eibsv6

MTA announces new police patrols with 60 officers on LIRR and Metro North trains.
Newsday Today
https://www.newsday.com/long-island/transportation/lirr-police-crime-iinhqf7q

Perilous Course series: Climate changes creating massive rainfalls, flooding in downstate NY.
Middletown Times Herald Record Today
https://www.recordonline.com/in-depth/news/2022/09/20/climate-crisis-expected-to-make-storms-flooding-even-more-intense/9611917002/

Perilous Course series: Climate change ending tradition Indian trapping on coast of Maryland.
Middletown Times Herald Record Today
https://www.recordonline.com/in-depth/news/2022/09/20/muskrat-hunter-tribal-chief-wrestles-with-habitat-destruction-climate/9615082002/

Former SUNY New Paltz student Jared Eng faces life in prison for murder of his mother in Tribeca apartment. Another former student charged in horrific killing.
Middletown Times Herald Record Today
https://www.recordonline.com/story/news/crime/2022/09/19/jared-eng-guilty-murder-mother-2019-sentencing/69503845007/

Perilous Course series: East coast of the U.S. faces a scary, uncharted future as global warming produces rise in Atlantic Ocean, flooding, storms.
Journal News Today
https://www.lohud.com/in-depth/news/2022/09/20/east-coast-flooding-heat-severe-weather-climate-change/10308981002/

Assembly member Rosenthal wants to ban shock collars for dogs.
Jamestown Post-Journal Today
https://www.post-journal.com/news/local-news/2022/09/ban-on-dog-shock-collar-sales-proposed-in-state/

Son of federal judge McAvoy charged with making secret sex tapes of women. Porn was catalogued and kept on 100 DVDs at judge's home.
Gothamist Today
https://gothamist.com/news/evidence-seized-from-federal-judges-ny-home-in-sons-secret-sex-tape-case

Brooklyn council member Inna Vernikov keeps pressure on CUNY over anti-Semitism and anti-Israel activities.
Gothamist Today
https://nypost.com/2022/09/19/nyc-councilwoman-inna-vernikov-hits-cuny-eric-adams-over-anti-israel-antisemitism-probe/

SUNY Adirondack students want registered sex offender Timothy Philmon, 50, of Glens Falls barred from campus. He wrote on his Instagram page: 'I am the High Priest of the International Church of Homosexual Pedophilia.'
Glens Falls Post Star Today
https://poststar.com/news/local/suny-adirondack-students-start-petition-against-registered-sex-offender/article_1203211e-382f-11ed-920c-035428d42382.html

Bills beat Tennessee 41-7 in first Monday Night Football win in 28 years.
Buffalo News Today
https://buffalonews.com/sports/bills/bills-41-titans-7-how-it-happened-stars-of-the-game-key-plays/article_e467c0f8-3882-11ed-aace-036cbb44c10c.html

13 Starbucks workers in WNY stores have been fired after involvement with starting a union.
Buffalo News Today
https://buffalonews.com/business/local/starbucks-keeps-firing-union-organizers-but-the-fired-workers-are-undeterred/article_d127271a-2872-11ed-9ddd-9f74cfc0273c.html

NY's new bonus payment program for frontline healthcare workers is extremely complicated. Workers will get as much as $3,000.
Buffalo News Today
https://buffalonews.com/business/local/breaking-down-the-states-complex-health-care-worker-bonus-program/article_47e932b6-3864-11ed-980f-37eb41408e6e.html

Buffalo News selling offices it has occupied since 1974 and will move to smaller rented quarters in Larkinville neighborhood. Newspaper has been in same Main Street area since its founding in 1873.
Buffalo News Today
https://buffalonews.com/business/local/breaking-down-the-states-complex-health-care-worker-bonus-program/article_47e932b6-3864-11ed-980f-37eb41408e6e.html#tracking-source=home-the-latest

Buffalo News editorial condemns the ongoing demolition of the Great Northern grain elevator. ADM is tearing down enormous historic structure after one of its walls collapsed.
Buffalo News Today
https://buffalonews.com/opinion/editorial/the-editorial-board-great-northern-s-fate-was-hastened-by-arbitrary-delay-and-misguided-actions/article_31291378-384d-11ed-ab26-57f581d80b80.html

Higgins hopeful border crossing restrictions will soon be scrapped by Canada and the U.S. now that Biden has declared end to covid19 emergency.
Buffalo News Today
https://buffalonews.com/news/local/higgins-hopeful-canada-will-soon-lift-restrictions-on-u-s-citizens-crossing-northern-border/article_ced1dff6-384d-11ed-96ac-a7cd53844dc9.html

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