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Couple to wed after losing nearly 600 pounds together
Frustrated with his ever-growing weight that peaked at 675 pounds, Ronnie Brower began dieting and working out on his way to losing an astounding 458 pounds. His four-year fitness journey, chronicled...
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My sick little pony: Blind woman nurses pal back to health
DELMAR, N.Y. (AP) — As a blind woman, Ann Edie has relied on her hip-high miniature horse for 14 years to guide her through life’s obstacles. The fuzzy black-and-white service pony, named Panda, has...
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Researchers test self-destructing moth pest in cabbage patch
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — Researchers in a New York cabbage patch are planning the first release on American soil of insects genetically engineered to die before they can reproduce. It’s a pesticide-free...
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School panel hears case of member known for insulting Obamas
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — A one-time candidate for New York governor who publicly insulted former President Barack Obama and his wife appeared before the state’s education commissioner Thursday on the first...
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Wife: Police didn’t act fast enough to save husband
SCHENECTADY, N.Y. (AP) — Sometime between Andrew Kearse’s arrest and the 3.2-mile (5.15-kilometer) ride to the police station, officers say, he complained of dizziness and difficulty breathing, and...
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Rare white deer herd open to public view beginning this fall
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — A rare herd of ghostly white deer kept mostly from public view for decades is no longer off-limits. The herd at a former World War II Army weapons depot in upstate New York will be...
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Bald eagle threat: Lead ammo left behind by hunters
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — Bald eagles have made a remarkable recovery across the United States since the pesticide DDT was banned 45 years ago, but the majestic birds are still dying from another...
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NY: Endangered Karner blue butterfly exceeds recovery goals
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — The Karner blue butterfly has exceeded recovery goals in the rare New York habitat where it was discovered by Russian author Vladimir Nabokov in the 1940s, officials announced...
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Deadly crashes spur calls for tractor-trailer side guards
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — Fifty years after actress Jayne Mansfield died in a Buick that slammed underneath a tractor-trailer, auto safety advocates say regulations inspired by that gruesome crash need...
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2 tons of seized ivory crushed to protest illegal trade
NEW YORK (AP) — Trinkets, statues and jewelry crafted from the tusks of at least 100 slaughtered elephants were fed Thursday into a rock crusher in Central Park to demonstrate the state’s commitment to...
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Fix New York’s government? Some say key is new constitution
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — Corruption and a rigged political system are battle cries of both sides in a debate over whether New Yorkers should vote this fall to rewrite the state constitution. Advocates of a...
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Simone Askew is first black woman to lead West Point cadets
WEST POINT, N.Y. (AP) — Simone Askew marched into history Monday as the first black woman to lead the Long Gray Line at the U.S. Military Academy. After an early-morning 12-mile march back to the gray...
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Sick puppies spur New York scrutiny of non-profit rescues
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — When Alexis Kozmon and her husband decided to get a dog for their 6-year-old daughter, they chose to adopt rather than buy from a breeder to teach the child the value of rescuing....
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Hunters, government, industry at odds over deer urine
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — Deer hunters who like to lure their quarry with a dab of eau de doe-in-rut will have to find another way to attract a trophy buck in New York if state wildlife biologists have their...
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Parole denied for prison tailor who helped 2 killers escape
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — Parole has been denied to prison tailor Joyce Mitchell, who was sweet-talked into providing hacksaw blades, chisels and other tools that two killers used in a prison break that’s...
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Graceful menace: States take aim at non-native swans
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — With its snow-white plumage and elegant posture, mute swans are exalted in European ballets and fairy tales as symbols of love and beauty. But to many wildlife biologists, they are...
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2 tons of seized ivory crushed to protest illegal trade
NEW YORK (AP) — Trinkets, statues and jewelry crafted from the tusks of at least 100 slaughtered elephants were fed Thursday into a rock crusher in Central Park to demonstrate the state’s commitment to...
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Officer’s death intensifies scrutiny of herbal supplement
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — Matt Dana was known around the Adirondack Mountain town where he grew up as a promising young police sergeant who worked hard to root out narcotics dealers. So it came as a shock to...
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Measure would cut red tape on NY lands deemed ‘forever wild’
PISECO LAKE, N.Y. (AP) — This tiny mountain town in New York’s Adirondack Mountains wants to add a bike lane to a narrow lakeside road, but it would need the permission of voters from Brooklyn to...
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Women say they were branded, traumatized by group’s doctors
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — Women say they were branded and traumatized by doctors in a secretive New York group, and state officials say they’ll review why authorities didn’t act sooner on the women’s...
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