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State Parks to welcome eclipse goers ALBANY – Thacher Park in Albany County is one of more than 180 state parks across New York where you might want to catch of glimpse of the soon-to-arrive solar eclipse. Even though you'd only be able to see a partial eclipse in the immediate Capital Region, a journey into the Zone of Totality is only a short drive away. Video Player is loading. This is a modal window. Beginning of dialog window. Escape will cancel and close the window. Text Color Transparency Background Color Transparency Window Color Transparency Font Size Text Edge Style Font Family End of dialog window. Details affecting local, regional and national news events of the day are provided by the NewsChannel 13 Team, as well as updates on weather and traffic. The path of total darkness will pass through upstate New York in the middle of the afternoon, on April 8th. It will be a day when the ordinary turns into the extraordinary, when the sun and moon engage in a cosmic ballet. In short, it will create a memory that lasts a lifetime, and people have already been interplanetary plans to take part. “The reservations went like hotcakes,” said Angela Berti, spokeswoman for the New York State Parks, Recreation & Historic Preservation. “They are all pretty much booked up.” Berti says eclipse viewing events at campgrounds and historic sites have been on the governor's radar screen and in the planning stages for well over a lunar year. “Parks that do have camping have been taking reservations since the July 4th weekend of 2023,” Berti said. “Again, Governor Hochul saw the need and the demand for camping and allowed us and permitted us to open our campgrounds early, and April is typically not a time for us.” Beyond the campgrounds, folks can also find suitable solar viewing spots along the path of totality in places like Niagara Falls, the buffalo Waterfront, Thousand Islands, The Finger Lakes, the Adirondacks, Saranac Lake, Ausable Chasm, and many more. With folks from all over the world expected to travel to upstate New York, the hope is that many of those visitors make it more than just a day trip. “We've been working with “I Love NY” and all of our local tourism partners,” Berti said. “We want them to spend a day, spend that Monday night where ever you're choosing to watch the eclipse, spend the night, explore what else there is to do in the region, and enjoy New York State. If you don't have a place to stay yet, your options are probably whittling down pretty quickly.” One of the great unknowns at this point, as April 8th approaches, is the weather. If it happens to be overcast that day, it'll still get dark in the middle of the afternoon, however those hoping to see a total solar eclipse might just experience total disappointment.

Raised in Guilderland, missing in Arizona SELIGMAN, AZ – Soon after 35-yar old Shayna Feinman went missing on March 9th, somewhere in between Peach Springs and Seligman, Arizona, her sister, Kara, began contacting Shayna's friends where she quickly heard two different versions of the disappearance. Video Player is loading. This is a modal window. Beginning of dialog window. Escape will cancel and close the window. Text Color Transparency Background Color Transparency Window Color Transparency Font Size Text Edge Style Font Family End of dialog window. Advertisement Details affecting local, regional and national news events of the day are provided by the NewsChannel 13 Team, as well as updates on weather and traffic. One version had Shayna walking into the woods on her own after having a disagreement with somebody. The other version had her being chased into the woods. Video Player is loading. This is a modal window. Beginning of dialog window. Escape will cancel and close the window. Text Color Transparency Background Color Transparency Window Color Transparency Font Size Text Edge Style Font Family End of dialog window. Advertisement Details affecting local, regional and national news events of the day are provided by the NewsChannel 13 Team, as well as updates on weather and traffic. “I don't know what one is accurate. I don't know which one is true,” Kara Feinman said. “What I do know is that she did not go in there intending to camp, to hike, or to stay there for any sort of extended period of time.” Kara says her sister is a certified survivalist who never would have wandered into the woods without her camping gear, which was found inside her abandoned car, along with her wallet and passport. “A missing person is I think one of the hardest things to handle because there is no closure and there is no understanding (of what happened),” she said. “They could be in a terrible situation or they could no longer be on this earth.” After posting a missing persons notice on social media, Kara says she has received several pieces of useful information while she personally tries to solve the mystery. “I have voice mails and I have text message threads of her saying she wasn't feeling safe. She was scared at that time,” Kara stated. “That draws a lot of concern now that she's been missing for so long.” Just recently one of Shayna's friends sent Kara a cell phone video of the place on a 40 acre property where Shayna had been living with a few friends. The video included footage of the remote location where Shayna's car had been abandoned and where a massive police search that included K-9s turned up nothing. “I have been in communication with my family,” Kara said. “They have been reaching out and I have been speaking to them regularly. The whole thing is just really hard and it's really hard to go every day not having answers about what's happened or where she is, or if she's ok.” Adding to the family's despair is the discovery that another woman recently disappeared from an Arizona roadside not far from where Shayna vanished. Chelsea Grimm was 32 years old, on a cross country journey from her home in San Diego to a family wedding in Connecticut, when went missing in October, 2023. “There are a lot of insane similarities between the two cases which draws even more concern,” Kara acknowledges. “They had some similar friends. They both had lived in Connecticut and they both traveled to Arizona. All of (Chelsea's) belongings were accounted for and it's scary to think that it could be a pattern.” Kara Feinman is asking anyone who has spoken with Shayna in the past few months to please get in touch with her. Her number is (518) 253-6358.

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Lobbyists making a final push at Capitol ALBANY – On any given day at the capitol there are roughly 10,000 bills that are in play, 10,000 potential new laws that come up for consideration. The reality is 90% of those bills never see the light of day in either legislative chamber, meaning they won't be enacted in law. Video Player is loading. This is a modal window. Beginning of dialog window. Escape will cancel and close the window. Text Color Transparency Background Color Transparency Window Color Transparency Font Size Text Edge Style Font Family End of dialog window. Advertisement The day's major news events, business reports, local sports updates, weather information and tomorrow's forecast are presented by the NewsChannel 13 Team. It kind of makes you wonder how lawmakers pick and prioritize the bills that eventually do become laws. On a typical spring day at the state capitol, there are thousands of citizen advocates who line the marble corridors outside the legislative chambers who are passionate, persistent, and determined to influence the decision makers of our democracy. “Having folks up here for these lobby days, it is important because it helps to bring attention,” said Assemblywoman pat Fahy (D – Albany). “Although it barely skims the surface of some very complicated issues because we live in a sound bite society.” On this particular day, there were no fewer than two dozen scheduled news conferences at the state house. On the Million Dollar Staircase there were lobbyists, lawmakers, and DWI victims pushing to lower the limit for legal intoxication. Among the anti-fracking advocates outside the senate chamber was musician Natalie Merchant. Meanwhile, up on the fourth floor at high noon, rank and file retail workers rallied with union reps hopeful of grabbing the ears of legislators. The question that lobbyists for any and all causes share in common is: how do you know for sure your efforts aren't falling on deaf ears? “Sometimes it could happen quickly,” said Assemblyman Angelo Santabarbara (D – Rotterdam). “Sometimes it takes longer but the bottom line is don't give up, keep working at it, and keep working on those issues. That's how things get done. That's how laws get passed. That's how bills get advanced. that's how things get prioritized in the budget.” Fahy meanwhile says she understands every citizen who walks into the capitol on Lobby Day believes his or her issue is the most important issue in the world. “That's a very hard thing to explain to them,” Fahy said. “I try to attend as many (news conferences) as I can,” Santabarbara added. “I try to look for things that I have a passion for.” “I'm n the business of showing up,” Fahy asserted. “I do try and show up to those that I do think need a voice to be amplified, and all of this is about amplifying a voice.”

According to RPI Geophysics Professor Steven Roeckert, compared to larger earthquakes seen around the world in recent years, 4.8 is a “pip squeak” event.

DA: Cocaine, starvation part of horrific circumstances of child's death SCHENECTADY – It was a nightmare on Elmer Street. According to Assistant Schenectady County District Attorney John Carson, Chief of the Special Victims Unit, the younger brother of the five year old girl allegedly starved to death by her father tested positive for cocaine. Video Player is loading. This is a modal window. Beginning of dialog window. Escape will cancel and close the window. Text Color Transparency Background Color Transparency Window Color Transparency Font Size Text Edge Style Font Family End of dialog window. An evening report of the latest news, items of interest in the Albany area, sports scores and weather and traffic are provided by the NewsChannel 13 Team. How the drug got into the 3-year old's body and why the little girl allegedly received no food or water over a five day period, remains under investigation, Carson said. Regarding whether or not the girl has traces of cocaine in her system, authorities say, will be answered by autopsy results. Even if no one knows for sure what was going on inside 203 Elmer Street in Schenectady, neighbors have long had their suspicions. “I noticed from the day he first moved in when he started having a whole bunch of company come through,” said one Elmer Street neighbor who requested anonymity. “There was a variety of people. They were older guys and they were younger guys. I for one didn't know what he was dealing with.” Robert Buskey, 33, a former mixed martial arts fighter, lived in the first floor flat with his two children. It's unclear if any other adult lived with them. At the current time, the children's mother doesn't seem to be in the picture.” Carson describes recent activity in the apartment as a series of “horrific circumstances” that turned deadly for an innocent little girl. Buskey has been charged with Manslaughter and Child Endangerment. He has pleaded not guilty to all charges, the most serious of which alleges his daughter received no food or water for five straight days, which authorities say caused the girl's death. “That's ridiculous, totally ridiculous,” a neighbor said. “I know for a fact that he ordered food to that apartment. I don't think they cooked because he had food delivered to that house every single day. I don't see how the kid could have starved.” The DA says the little boy did receive fluids and is expected to make a full physical recovery. “They were nice kids. They were beautiful kids from what I saw. They didn't deserve that,” a neighbor asserted. “He had no business with them kids and he should have just given them to the state and he would have been done with it.” Buskey is due back in court this coming Friday at which time prosecutors, believing he is a flight risk, will request that no bail be granted.

It was a display of caring and compassion, the results of which most of the volunteers will never see.

Illegal Motorbikes Seized in Albany ALBANY – Albany County Sheriff Craig Apple says he knows what people in Albany have been going through, he understands the terror they feel in the streets, and he realizes what's at stake. Video Player is loading. This is a modal window. Beginning of dialog window. Escape will cancel and close the window. Text Color Transparency Background Color Transparency Window Color Transparency Font Size Text Edge Style Font Family End of dialog window. Details affecting local, regional and national news events of the day are provided by the NewsChannel 13 Team, as well as updates on weather and traffic. “It's starting already. It's been going on since the weather broke,” Apple stated. “Here we have a young woman fighting for her life in the hospital as a result of these people with a depraved indifference, terrorizing the communities.” The terror turned tragically tangible last weekend for 18-year old UAlbany freshman Alexa Kropf, who was struck by an illegal dirt bike on Hudson Avenue early Saturday, and remains at Albany medical Center mending from multiple body fractures and lying comatose following brain surgery. “I don't know what the draw is other than they want to bait police, get the police to chase them,” Apple said. “Regardless, at the end of the day, I still have a young woman fighting for her life because of the brazenness of basically criminals ripping apart our streets.” Sheriff Apple's crew rounded up ten illegal motorcycles on Thursday night, acknowledging that many other renegade riders got away. Twenty-one traffic tickets were issued. Two bikers have been charged with Aggravated Unlicensed Operation. Apple also points out it's not just Albany residents who are tearing up their own city, he says many bikers are revving up and riding in from out of town. Apple stresses the seized bikes represent just the tip of the iceberg of inner city terror that too many residents put up with on a daily basis. He says he's determined to make sure the bike owners get the message: enough is enough.

In a world where movers and shakers, dreamers and schemers are often seen as coming a dime a dozen, the notion that an 8,000 seat soccer stadium could be built in downtown Albany might not be so pie in the sky.

Non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) is the most common pulmonary malignancy, frequently diagnosed at an advanced stage (III/IV). Patients in the Locally Advanced Stage Subgroup (IIIA) are relatively few, yet compose heterogenic phenotypes, posing a diagnostic and treating challenge, leading to a lack of clinical guidelines regarding the optimal standard of care. Several approaches exist, with a general agreement that a combined oncological and surgical modality approach is required. In this current retrospective descriptive study, patients with operable stage IIIA NSCLC who underwent surgery between 2013 and 2020 were evaluated on several aspects, including the initial diagnosis, neoadjuvant regimens, outcomes of surgical intervention, and overall survival at 2 years and 5 years following treatment. A total of 35 patients had neoadjuvant oncological treatment (mostly chemoradiation therapy) prior to surgery, out of which 28 patients were diagnosed with stage IIIA NSCLC. In post-operative assessment of pathological staging, downstaging was reported in 19 patients, of which 25% of cases were defined as a complete pathological response. The 2-year overall survival rate was 65% and the 5-year overall survival rate was 62%. The main pattern of disease recurrence was distant metastasis.