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Clifton Park man builds tall bike turning heads

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 10:30:29 GMT

CLIFTON PARK, N.Y. (NEWS10) - For his final class project at the Modern Welding School in Schenectady, Erik Herrero designed a 8.5-foot tall bike. When he found out the cost of building it, a bike shop in Schenectady donated bike frames to help him execute his vision.Videos of Erik riding the bike have garnered millions of views on TikTok. The biggest question he always gets asked is, "How do I get on it?" A running start is always involved. Meteorologist from Bolton Landing goes viral after touchscreen discovery Erik's career endeavors is allowing him to follow in his family's footsteps. Both of his grandfathers were welders, and one of them was a mechanic. The gears are already turning for his next design. He wants to build a tall tandem tricycle for him and his girlfriend, Scotlynn Burke, to ride to their weekly ice cream trips to Stewart's Shops. To see more videos of Erik riding his bike, visit his TikTok account.

98.3 TRY Social Dilemma: Can I Sell My Daughter's Car Now That She's At College? 

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 10:30:29 GMT

ALBANY, N.Y. (NEWS10) -- Today's 98.3 TRY Social Dilemma came from Mark. Here's the email: Get the latest, news, weather, sports and community events delivered right to your inbox! Hi Jaime. I need some ammo to help me win this argument with my wife. We’ve got a ten-year-old car that we’ve been letting my daughter use until she graduated. That time has come, and she’s now off to college. Right now, people are paying way more than cars are worth to get inventory on their lots, and I want to sell that car. My wife’s insisting that we keep it, though, just in case our daughter needs it. She’s moving three states away from us and living on campus…where she doesn’t need a car. I say there’s no reason we shouldn’t get an extra $15K for ourselves by selling it, but my wife insists we need to keep it “just in case” our “little girl” needs it. To that, I suggested we sell it to her for $11K, and you’d think I’d just told my wife that she had lipstick on her teeth in front of her boss. Am I...

Clinton Market Collective project underway

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 10:30:29 GMT

ALBANY, N.Y. (NEWS10) -- The construction of the Clinton Market Collective project has begun, which is a part of the Albany Downtown Revitalization Initiative (DRI). The project will renovate Federal Park at the Corner of Clinton Avenue and Broadway into the Clinton Market Collective, according to the Press Office for Governor Hochul. Get the latest, news, weather, sports and community events delivered right to your inbox! The Clinton Market Collective will expand Clinton Square's strengths and opportunities through the DRI, as it serves as the gateway to the Capital City. The project will enhance the area with an already rich, historic heritage that shows diverse architectural styles and landmarks, such as the Albany Union Station and Quackenbush House. The project will cost $3.56M overall and receive $1.16M as part of the $10M Albany Downtown Revitalization Initiative. The project was also recommended for a $750,00 Empire State Development capital grant from the Capital Regional...

Ask Amy: Survivor with PTSD tries to cope with family

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 10:30:29 GMT

Dear Amy: Growing up my childhood was not horrible — just bad.I have PTSD, dissociation, and sleep paralysis because of things that happened during my childhood.Whenever the subject of childhood is brought up, my parents say it was good.If my siblings or I say otherwise it just starts a fight.We were raised “Christian.” We went to church between three and seven days a week.I hate church now and do not go.Eight years ago, our grandmother died. She also attended this church.I decided to go into the church building for her funeral (big mistake).A few days later I started getting flashbacks of things that had happened to me as a child at that church.My PTSD got worse, and I had bad dreams and night terrors.My doctor put me on medication to suppress these nightmares. After seven years, my anxiety is finally at a tolerable stage.Related ArticlesAsk Amy | Ask Amy: A widow ponders the source of her bitterness Ask Amy | Ask Amy: Roomies trespass and are caugh...

Serbs in north Kosovo boycott local elections

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 10:30:29 GMT

Serbs from northern Kosovo boycotted Sunday's (23 April) local elections in protest at not being able to get their demands for greater autonomy met. This is another sign that the peace agreement signed between Kosovo and Serbia a month ago has not worked.Serbian List, the main political party in northern Kosovo's serb-dominated region, called on Serbs to not vote on Sunday."Except for very rare cases, Serbs boycott the elections," a central election commission official, who declined to be identified, said on Sunday.Before they can vote, Serbia and Kosovo Serbs demand the creation of an Association of Kosovo Serb Municipalities, as per a decade old EU-brokered agreement with the Kosovo Government in Pristina.The central election commission, fearing violence, abandoned plans to install voting booths in school and instead installed mobile huts in 13 locations. NATO troops from Latvia, Italy and more than 3,000 peacekeeping forces in Kosovo patrolled the roads near voting areas.Zubin Po...

First-ever ranking of EU Parliament members vote on Israel presented in Brussels

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 10:30:29 GMT

One of the takeways of the survey results is that political ideology and, to a lesser extent, nationality that determine how a particular member of the European Parliament will cast his vote on Israel-related issues. While Ireland ends up last on the list on its support for Israel, followed by Spain, support for Israel is more common in the new EU member states. Among the four largest EU member states, Italy and Poland score some of the highest points in support for Israel, which is also symptomatic for the fact that they are currently governed by the right-wing parties.For many years, political commentators have been asking themselves how is the European Parliament relating to issues related to Israel.The answer to this question was given on Tuesday (25 April) in the framework of the presentation in Brussels of the first ever survey on the support for Israel among the 199 national political parties represeented in the European Parliament.The survey, commissioned by the European Coa...

Bonny Doon residence no home for sexually violent predator, court affirms

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 10:30:29 GMT

SANTA CRUZ — The state Supreme Court will not consider an effort to overturn a lower court’s ruling to deny a violent sexual offender’s placement in a Bonny Doon residence.Bonny Doon residents rallied in November 2021 at the Santa Cruz County Superior courthouse to speak out against “sexually violent predator” Michael Cheek being housed on Wild Iris Lane in Bonny Doon. (Shmuel Thaler — Santa Cruz Sentinel file) The Department of State Hospitals and its contractor Liberty Healthcare Corp. sought to place 71-year-old Michael Cheek in a rented rural Iris Lane home, one among several unsuccessful locations identified throughout the state, upon his release.“From our perspective, he was about to be placed, based on the court’s order, in a location that was unsafe,” said Santa Cruz County Assistant District Attorney Alex Byers. “The thought that they could have appropriately supervised him at that location over time just bore out to be unrealistic. So, we’re glad that that didn’t happ...

Former President Trump criticizes Reagan Library as RNC’s pick to host 2024 primary debate

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 10:30:29 GMT

There’s one Republican presidential candidate unhappy with the party’s choice to hold its second debate in the 2024 primary at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library: former President Donald Trump.On his Truth Social account Tuesday, Trump seemed to question whether he’d participate in any debates in the first place while also critiquing the choice of the Simi Valley foundation because its longtime board chair, Frederick Ryan Jr., is the publisher of the Washington Post. In another post, Trump claimed that “President Ronald Reagan would not approve” of Ryan chairing the library’s board.Of note, Ryan is Reagan’s former chief of staff and served on his re-election team as well as in other capacities.“I see that everybody is talking about the Republican debates, but nobody got my approval, or the approval of the Trump campaign, before announcing them,” Trump said. “When you’re leading by seemingly insurmountable numbers, and you have hostile networks with angry Trump & MAGA hitting...

Disability rights groups sue to overturn California’s physician-assisted death law

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 10:30:29 GMT

By Don Thompson | Kaiser Health NewsDisability rights advocates sued Tuesday to overturn California’s physician-assisted death law, arguing that recent changes make it too easy for people with terminal diseases whose deaths aren’t imminent to kill themselves with drugs prescribed by a doctor.California’s original law allowing terminally ill adults to obtain prescriptions for life-ending drugs was passed in 2016. Advocates say the revised version that took effect last year removes crucial safeguards and violates the U.S. Constitution and the Americans with Disabilities Act.Plaintiffs in the federal lawsuit, which was filed in Los Angeles County, argue that life-ending drugs are more likely to be used by people with disabilities and racial and ethnic minorities because those groups are less likely to receive proper medical and mental health care. The advocates fear that vulnerable people could be pressured into taking their lives by family members or caretakers or feel pressure themse...

12 beers in less than 3 hours: A binge or a ruse in California triple-murder case?

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 10:30:29 GMT

The prosecution in the murder trial of a Temescal Valley man who is accused of causing the traffic collision that killed three teenagers in 2020 after they played ding dong ditch on him sought on Tuesday, April 25, to cast doubt on Anurag Chandra’s testimony — including his claim that he drank 12 beers in the hours before the crash.Chandra, 45, took the witness stand for a second day. He has pleaded not guilty to three counts each of first-degree murder and attempted murder.Chandra previously testified that he saw a person in front of his home on Jan. 19, 2020, who wore a sweatshirt hood over his head. That person knocked on the door, rang the doorbell and exposed his buttocks. Chandra said he was afraid for his family’s safety, so he climbed in his car in an effort to chase down that person’s car and verbally express his anger.He said the teens’ 2002 Toyota Prius sideswiped his 2019 Infiniti during the chase. Chandra said he continued to pursue the Prius and rear-ended the car when...