Mike Goodwin

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LIVE: Belmont festival week begins today in Saratoga Springs

3 days ago | timesunion.com | Kelsey Brown |Adam Shinder |Mike Goodwin

SARATOGA SPRINGS — The Belmont Stakes Racing Festival kicks off today, and thousands are expected to head downtown for tonight's Belmont on Broadway Gin Blossoms concert. Times Union reporters and editors are updating this article throughout the day with the latest from the Spa City. Article continues below this ad6:50 a.m.: Post time is less than six hours away at Saratoga Race Course.
Geomagnetic storm hits Northern Hemisphere with northern lights. Here’s why New Yorkers might miss it.

4 days ago | timesunion.com | Nora Mishanec |Mike Goodwin

ALBANY — A large-scale geomagnetic storm was predicted to sweep across the Northern Hemisphere Monday night, but most New Yorkers had little hope of spotting the colorful waves of light known as aurora borealis, or northern lights.
Albany temperature could hit 90 by mid-week, a big change from cool Ma

5 days ago | timesunion.com | Mike Goodwin

ALBANY — The temperature could hit the 90s by mid-week, a weather reversal for a region that just finished an unseasonable cool weekend and one of the wettest months on record. The National Weather Service in Albany says the temperature should steadily rise from the high 60s and the low 70s on Monday to the 90s on Thursday for at least a part of the Capital Region and Hudson Valley.
Criminal charges unlikely in crash that killed walker on Krumkill Road

1 week ago | timesunion.com | Mike Goodwin

ALBANY — Police Chief Brendan Cox says it is unlikely criminal charges will be filed against the driver of a car that drove onto a Krumkill Road sidewalk last year and killed 50-year-old Jason Steinberg. Investigators assigned to the case are expected to soon discuss the crash with the Albany County District Attorney’s office to make a final determination, the chief said.
Live: Flood watch on as coastal storm drops heavy rain upstate

4 weeks ago | timesunion.com | Mike Goodwin

A coastal storm expected to hit upstate and much of the Northeast is bringing with it the potential for flooding around the Capital Region and Hudson Valley. Times Union reporters will be adding the latest updates to this article. 7:12 a.m.: A flood watch is in place across much of eastern upstate New York with the National Weather Service advising that regions already soaked by days of rain could receive another 1-to-3 inches of rain as a coastal storm moves through the Northeast.
Coastal storm could flood upstate

1 month ago | timesunion.com | Mike Goodwin

ALBANY — A coastal storm expected to hit upstate and much of the Northeast is bringing with it the potential for flooding around the Capital Region and Hudson Valley. The National Weather Service has issued a flood watch from 9 a.m. Friday to 8 a.m. Saturday for much of the Albany area and the counties in the Hudson Valley. Flood watches are issued when meteorologists believe the conditions are ripe for flooding.
Upstate faces possibility of flooding, severe thunderstorms

1 month ago | timesunion.com | Mike Goodwin |Tyler A. McNeil

ALBANY — After days of soaking rain, parts of eastern upstate face the potential for flooding and the arrival of thunderstorms on Tuesday. The National Weather Service says there is a marginal risk that severe thunderstorms could hit the Capital Region and Hudson Valley by afternoon. The storms threaten to bring damaging winds and large hail. Rainfall could be heavy.
Colonie Town Justice David N. Green quits amid state probe

1 month ago | timesunion.com | Mike Goodwin

COLONIE — A part-time town justice resigned amid a state investigation into complaints that he used his law firm staff and another attorney to file cases for his private clients in Town Court, was hostile when representing landlords as an attorney in other courts, enlisted prosecutors in his court to get someone an internship in the Albany County District Attorney’s office, and urged voters to change their party enrollments.
Justices reduce killer's prison term over botched plea

1 month ago | timesunion.com | Mike Goodwin

ALBANY — An appeals court cut 10 years off the sentence of an Albany man, Jhajuan Sabb, in the May 21, 2021, drive-by shooting death of grocery store clerk Sharaf Addailam and the wounding of another man. Acting Albany County Judge Roger McDonough sentenced Sabb to 25 years for his guilty plea to first-degree manslaughter and 10 years for his plea to first-degree assault, ordering him to serve the terms consecutively.
Lookout in UAlbany student's notorious killing heads back to prison in stolen goods case

1 month ago | timesunion.com | Mike Goodwin

ALBANY —A man who served time in the notorious killing of a University at Albany student was sentenced to prison Monday for selling stolen items online, according to the Albany County District Attorney's office. Abdul Malik Mustahin, who went by the name King Modest when he acted as a lookout during the deadly 2008 robbery of UAlbany student Richard Bailey, was sentenced to two to four years Monday by state Supreme Court Justice Thomas Marcelle.