Nora Mishanec

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.

6 days ago | timesunion.com | Nora Mishanec

ALBANY — County leaders in the Capital Region and Hudson Valley are pushing back against the Trump administration’s claims that they are among 15 New York counties considered to be “defying federal immigration law.” On Thursday, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security issued a list of cities, counties and states it said were “deliberately and shamefully obstructing the enforcement of federal immigration laws.” The department said it would be formally notifying these jurisdictions of their...

1 week ago | timesunion.com | Nora Mishanec

Authorities believe a Bard College professor previously reported missing in Northern California is dead after what the school described as a “tragic accident while hiking.”Rebecca Cole Heinowitz, 50, was “last seen struggling while swimming in the raging waters of the Yuba River” in a wilderness area near Bridgeport, Calif., located about 80 miles south of Lake Tahoe on the border of California and Nevada, the Nevada County Sheriff’s Office said in a statement.

1 week ago | timesunion.com | Nora Mishanec

Three students at a Middletown middle school became ill and were taken to an area hospital Wednesday after eating what school administrators described as a “gummy-like substance.”The Monhagen Middle School students were taken to the hospital for medical evaluation “as a precaution,” Dominick Radogna, the school’s principal, said Thursday in a letter to parents posted on the school district’s Facebook page. He noted the incident involved four students, three of whom became ill.

1 week ago | timesunion.com | Nora Mishanec

A motorcycle crash killed a 62-year-old Putnam County man this week after the motorcycle's rear tire exploded on the Thruway near New Paltz, State Police said Thursday. The rider, Martin Muller of Mahopac, was thrown from his 2009 Harley-Davidson motorcycle after the motorcycle's rear tire blew out shortly before 8 a.m. Tuesday, police said in a statement. The force caused the bike to turn sideways and roll in the left lane until it came to a stop, officials said.