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Applications open: Round 2 of Albany small business grants

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:26:59 GMT

ALBANY, N.Y. (NEWS10) -- Entrepreneurs in the City of Albany can start applying for round two of the Small Business Vitality Assistance Program funded by the American Rescue Plan Act. Get the latest news, weather, sports and entertainment delivered right to your inbox! As the program gears up for more funding to go out to local businesses, NEWS10 caught up with recipients of round one to find out how the grants helped them overcome the challenges of the pandemic.Karen Maxwell is the owner of Kema’s Kreations, located at the Community Loan Fund building on Orange Street. She’s a seamstress who makes unique fashion bags with everything from leather to studs, and wood, even featuring paintings from artists on her handbags.COVID-19 threw her business for a loop, and she was one of 26 Albany entrepreneurs and businesses to receive a total of more than $200,000 in recovery funding from the program, which is a partnership between the city, the Downtown Business Improvement District, and...

Suspect arraigned in Morton Avenue homicide case

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:26:59 GMT

ALBANY, N.Y. (NEWS10) -- On Wednesday morning, a 17-year-old from Albany was arraigned in Albany County Court. The defendant pleaded not guilty to second-degree murder and one count of criminal possession of a weapon in the second degree. Get the latest news, weather, sports and entertainment delivered right to your inbox! According to the indictment, the defendant intentionally caused the death of Naheim Burbridge on July 22. The defendant was accused of shooting Burbridge with an illegal handgun. The defendant was remanded to a Capital District Secure Juvenile Detention Facility. They are due to reappear in court on August 21.

Cardinals superfan charged with joining Capitol riot in red face paint, Trump hat

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:26:59 GMT

A St. Louis Cardinals mega-fan known as “Rally Runner” was arrested Wednesday on charges that he joined a mob's attack on the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, and used a stolen shield to help other rioters attack police officers, court records show. Daniel Donnelly Jr. was wearing red paint on his face and a red “Keep America Great” hat when he stormed the Capitol, the FBI said in a court filing.Donnelly is known in St. Louis for running around the Cardinals' stadium during baseball games while wearing red clothes and red face paint. Donnelly apparently changed his legal name to Rally Runner, according to the FBI.Tucker Carlson featured Donnelly on a December 2021 segment of his now-canceled Fox News show. Carlson showed an image of Donnelly outside the Capitol as he promoted conspiracy theories that uncharged “agent provocateurs” had infiltrated the mob, HuffPost reported.“Who is this person? Why hasn’t he been charged? That’s a very simple ask,” Carlson told his viewers.Donnelly was ...

NTSB releases final report on Missouri Amtrak crash over one year later

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:26:59 GMT

MENDON, Mo. - The National Transportation Safety Board has released its final report Wednesday on a deadly Amtrak train crash in Mendon, Missouri. In June 2022, four people were killed and over 140 people were injured when an Amtrak train hit a dump truck at an uncontrolled railroad crossing, causing both locomotives and all eight passenger railcars to derail. People living in the area said they’d complained about the crossing for years. There's only a stop sign and a railroad crossing sign, no crossing arms, warning lights or bells. Residents said it was steep and difficult to see if a train was coming until it was too late. The NTSB started investigating the day after the crash, inspecting the crossing's design, the railcar's design, survival factors and data from the train's event recorder. A bad dream’: Effects of Amtrak derailment still echoing in Missouri town In the agency's final report, the NTSB determined the probable cause of the crash was the truck driv...

Missouri changing up auto sales tax

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:26:59 GMT

MISSOURI — The process to buy a car in Missouri will be changing later this month. When you get a new vehicle, you start paying the sales tax on the purchase at the dealership. Right now, you have to make a trip to the Department of Revenue to pay for the sales tax separately. State Representative Lane Roberts said it's important to streamline the process for drivers."Why it's necessary for someone to buy a car, and then have to make a trip to do a separate transaction to pay a separate fee seems like an unnecessary burden on the buyer. So what this bill does is it makes it a single transaction," said Roberts.The change is part of Senate Bill 389 and makes Missouri the 48th state to require dealerships to collect the sales tax when a vehicle is sold. It takes effect on August 28th.

Former “Bachelorette” from Denver, Gabby Windey, comes out as queer

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:26:59 GMT

Denverite Gabby Windey is perhaps best known for dating  oodles of men as the titular star of “The Bachelorette.” But this week the former Denver Broncos cheerleader revealed she’s done dating dudes and is now seeing a woman.Windey joined the hosts of “The View” Wednesday morning to share the news, which she was inspired to do after spending much of 2022 in the spotlight on shows like “The Bachelorette” and “Dancing With the Stars.” On Instagram, the 32-year-old announced she’s been seeing comedian Robby Hoffman for three months.“Because people know me and have kind of related to me on the previous shows and I really appreciate them – literally ‘Dancing with the Stars’ is fan and vote based, it was so tangible to see how many cared about me,” said Windey, who landed in second place on her season. “Knowing how much people really care, I just want to be honest. I don’t want to live and not be living my full truth.” Windey starred on “The Bachelorette” and at the end of the ...

Police seek help finding Indigenous man last seen in May in Colorado Springs

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:26:59 GMT

A missing indigenous person alert has been issued by Colorado Bureau of Investigation for a man last seen in Colorado Springs.Related ArticlesCrime and Public Safety | Woman abducted in Aurora, endangered missing person alert issued Crime and Public Safety | Search for kayaker Ari Harms restarts in Grand County as Colorado River levels decrease Lorenzo Snowbird-Lucero, 28, was last seen May 21 in the K-Land neighborhood, according to the alert.Please share: MISSING INDIGENOUS PERSON ALERTLorenzo Snowbird-Lucero, 28, brown eyes, black hair is 5'06"/165 pounds. Last contact was May 21, 2023, last seen in Colorado Springs, K-Land neighborhood. If seen, please call Colorado Springs Police at 719-444-7000.@CSPDPIO pic.twitter.com/8BRR4oWdEp— CBI (@CBI_Colorado) August 2, 2023Snowbird-Lucero is described as 5’6″ tall and 165 pounds, with brown eyes and black hair that is shaved. He has a tattoo of masks on his right upper arm and...

Two Mega Millions tickets worth $650K sold in Southern California

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:26:59 GMT

Editor's note: An earlier version of this article has been updated to correct the value of the California prizes.While no one won the Mega Millions jackpot, now projected to be $1.25 billion, two California Lottery players still walked away as big winners.Two Mega Millions tickets, one sold in Lancaster and the other in Los Angeles, matched five of the six winning numbers and are worth $650,579 each, according to the California Lottery website. The winning ticket sold in Lancaster was purchased at Bootleggers 2 mini market, located at 111 E. Ave. K. The other was sold at Royal Liquor on 2501 N. Pasadena Ave. in L.A. 2 Mega Millions tickets each worth over $200,000 sold in Southern California The winners' identities have yet to be disclosed.The winning numbers from Tuesday’s Mega Millions drawings were 8, 24, 30, 45, 61 and gold Mega Ball 12.The next Mega Millions drawing will take place on Friday at 7:59 p.m. Tickets cost $2 and can be purchased statewide at any lottery retail loc...

Alleged white supremacist leader extradited from Romania to California

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:26:59 GMT

A U.S. man accused of being the leader of a white supremacist group has been extradited from Romania to face charges of inciting violence at California political rallies in 2017.Robert Paul Rundo of Huntington Beach was flown back to the country Tuesday and expected to appear in federal court Wednesday on charges of conspiracy and rioting, the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Los Angeles said in a news release.Rundo, 33, is allegedly a founding member of the Rise Above Movement, according to the Attorney's Office. The organization is described in the indictment as “a combat-ready, militant group of a new nationalist white supremacy and identity movement." Nazi propaganda, explosive device, ammunition seized in L.A. raid, prosecutors say Rundo and two other men planned and engaged in violence at gatherings in Huntington Beach, Berkeley and San Bernardino in 2017, according to the indictment, which added that they later trained for future events and celebrated their assaults.Rundo's attorn...

California's Super Lotto Plus draw game reaches highest amount in 15 years

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:26:59 GMT

While the $1.25 billion Mega Millions jackpot has received a lot of attention, lottery officials don’t want Californians to forget about the Super Lotto Plus, another draw game that has reached its highest jackpot in 15 years.California’s in-state lottery game has a projected jackpot prize of $81 million and while it's not a billion dollar prize, people have a better chance of winning this jackpot than the Mega Millions and Powerball draw games. Three California Lottery players become instant millionaires from Powerball ticket, scratcher games The odds of winning the Super Lotto Plus jackpot are one in 41,416,353 compared to the one in 302.6 million chances of winning the Mega Millions jackpot.“Don’t count out California’s own in-state game. SuperLotto Plus can only be played here, so not only are you playing with fewer people in the mix, but the odds are also much better,” Carolyn Becker, California Lottery spokesperson, said in a statement.The highest Super Lotto Plus jackpot ev...