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SUNY Adirondack, Russell Sage forge new path for fine arts students

Published Tue, 04 Mar 2025 05:23:26 GMT

QUEENSBURY, N.Y. (NEWS10) - This year, SUNY Adirondack is expanding options for its Fine Arts students, in a new partnership with Russell Sage College. Students learning fine arts in Queensbury will have a new avenue to continue that work in Albany and Troy. Get the latest, news, weather, sports and community events delivered right to your inbox! In a new partnership, Russell Sage will accept as many as 66 credits from SUNY Adirondack Fine Arts students looking to transfer with a C- or better average grade. Those credits include Fine Arts-specific ones like Two-Dimensional Design and Western Art History, as well as general education requirements like Introduction to College Writing. Students coming in with a GPA of 3.0 from SUNY Adirondack will be automatically accepted into Russell Sage's BFA program upon making the jump.“We are excited to add this collaboration with Russell Sage to SUNY Adirondack’s numerous articulation agreements with institutions throughout the Northeast, to ...

Troy man sentenced to 37 months for gun, drug charges

Published Tue, 04 Mar 2025 05:23:26 GMT

ALBANY, N.Y. (NEWS10) -- On Monday, Frankie Rios, 42, of Troy, was sentenced to 37 months in prison. Rios was sentenced for illegally possessing a firearm as a convicted felon and for possessing and intending to distribute cocaine and cocaine base.  Get the latest, news, weather, sports and community events delivered right to your inbox! Rios admitted to having a .25 caliber Mauser handgun with six rounds of ammunition on March 30, 2019. He also admitted that on February 17, he had more than 100 grams of cocaine and cocaine base with the intent to distribute in Troy.As part of the plea deal, Rios has to forfeit the firearm and ammunition. Rios will also serve three years of post-imprisonment supervised release.

St. Louis family finds black bear in Gulf of Mexico while boogie boarding

Published Tue, 04 Mar 2025 05:23:26 GMT

ST. LOUIS - There are plenty of bears in Missouri, but one St. Louis family found a bear in the most unexpected place. A video was taken by the Pierson family while on vacation in Destin, Florida. They were bougie boarding in the Gulf of Mexico when they spotted a black bear swimming just feet away. Janae Edmondson set to have another surgery today The small bear ran off, and seemed more scared than the people around him. No one in the area was hurt, and there's no word yet on whether wildlife officials rescued the bear.

Broncos ILB Jonas Griffith is back on the field for first time since November and loving it: “It’s been phenomenal”

Published Tue, 04 Mar 2025 05:23:26 GMT

Nobody plays an entire NFL schedule entirely unscathed, so when Jonas Griffith started to feel a sharp pain in his foot last October, he figured an upcoming bye week was arriving at just the right time.The Broncos inside linebacker played 36 snaps in a 21-17 win in London against Jacksonville through the pain and planned on managing it the rest of the season.“I knew something was going on, because every time I took a step – it happened in London – and every time I took a step I was feeling this sharp pain,” Griffith told The Post recently. “I knew it wasn’t a regular muscle strain or something like that, that it had something to do with a bone, but I didn’t think it was a season-ender.”Turns out, it was.The pain didn’t subside through 13 snaps of action against Tennessee after the bye and then only worsened in practice the following week.The cause: A broken bone at the top of his foot. Griffith landed on injured reserve and missed the rest of the season. He said he wasn’t allowed to...

Broadway’s Denée Benton calls Ron DeSantis ‘grand wizard’ on Tony Awards broadcast

Published Tue, 04 Mar 2025 05:23:26 GMT

Broadway veteran Denée Benton referred to Gov. Ron DeSantis as the “grand wizard” of Florida at the 2023 Tony Awards, receiving a large round of applause from the Washington Heights audience.“Grand Wizard” historically is the title given to the national leader of the Ku Klux Klan.Benton, who is from Orlando, made the remark as she presented Jason Zembuch-Young, a teacher in Plantation, Fla., with a special Tony Award.“I’m sure he will be changing the name of this following town immediately,” Benton said of DeSantis from the United Palace stage.Last month, DeSantis announced his candidacy for the Republican nomination in the 2024 presidential election, setting up a race against Donald Trump.Benton received a 2017 Tony nomination for her portrayal of Natasha in “Natasha, Pierre & The Great Comet of 1812″ and has also starred on Broadway as Eliza Hamilton in “Hamilton” and Cinderella in “Into the Woods.”Zembuch-Young received the honor for incorporating deaf and blind students, as ...

Denver jury finds Warren Simpson guilty of murder in Park Hill shooting

Published Tue, 04 Mar 2025 05:23:26 GMT

A Denver jury has found a 43-year-old man guilty of murder in the 2021 fatal shooting in Northeast Park Hill.After a five-day trial, jurors on Friday found Warren Simpson guilty of second-degree murder in the shooting death of 54-year-old Robert Turner. Police in October 2021 found Turner in an alley behind 3683 N. Monaco St. and paramedics saw he’d been shot once in the upper chest and he was pronounced dead.Denver police investigators obtained video surveillance that showed two cars pulling into the alley. On the videotape, a male voice can be heard ordering a person to get out of the car, followed by the sound of one gunshot. A second voice can be heard on the video saying, “Mama!”Denver district attorney prosecutors proved that Simpson ordered Turner to get out of the car and that Turner called out “Mama” before Simpson shot and killed him. The sentencing is scheduled for July 20.

Deion Sanders defends CU housecleaning on Joel Klatt podcast, says Buffs football had bad attitude.

Published Tue, 04 Mar 2025 05:23:26 GMT

To hear Deion Sanders tell it, the CU Buffs needed a change of attitude when Coach Prime showed up at altitude.The Buffaloes’ first-year football coach detailed the mess he inherited in Boulder and defended his wholesale and historic roster changes during an interview with FOX Sports analyst and former CU quarterback Joel Klatt that dropped Monday.“I walked into this one room and they had music playing,” Sanders recalled to Klatt in the debut episode of Klatt’s “Big Noon Conversations” series.“Yo, first time meeting me, and I just finished telling you, ‘I’m bringing my Louis (Vuitton).’ I go into this one room, music is playing. I said, ‘Excuse me. What is this?’“(They said), ‘Uh, coach, we always bring the boom box into our position meeting room.’“I said, ‘Have you lost your mind? If you ever bring music into one of my meetings, I promise you, we will never see each other again in life.’”Of the 80 players who started spring ball with Sanders, 45, or 56% of that group, are no longer...

Bad behavior among airline passengers soars

Published Tue, 04 Mar 2025 05:23:26 GMT

Mask mandates and COVID protocols may be largely gone, but airlines are still grappling with a spike in bad behavior among passengers.An analysis by the International Air Transport Association found a 47% spike in unruly passenger incidents from 2021 to 2022. In 2022, the analysis found that one incident was reported for every 568 flights, up from one per 835 flights in 2021.Footage provided by Barrie Livingstone shows an airline passenger assaulting a flight attendant on Sept. 21, 2022.The typical examples of non-compliance were passengers smoking or vaping, failure to fasten seatbelts when instructed, not following carry-on bag rules, or passengers drinking their own alcohol on board.“The increasing trend of unruly passenger incidents is worrying,” said Conrad Clifford, IATA’s Deputy Director General. “While our professional crews are well trained to manage unruly passenger scenarios, it is unacceptable that rules in place for everyone’s safety are disobeyed by a small but persist...

Peter Binz Killed in DUI Crash on Herndon Avenue [Clovis, CA]

Published Tue, 04 Mar 2025 05:23:26 GMT

Jonathan Petty Arrested on DUI Charges after Fatal Hit-and-Run near Langley AvenueCLOVIS, CA (June 12, 2023) – Thursday night, a suspected DUI hit-and-run on Herndon Avenue claimed the life of Peter Binz.The collision happened around 7:00 p.m. along Herndon Avenue near Langley Avenue.According to the investigators, a pickup driver rear-ended a bicyclist going west on Herndon Avenue. However, the driver did not render aid to the bicyclist and immediately fled the scene.Tragically, the first responders declared the bicyclist deceased. He was identified as 33-year-old Peter Binz of Clovis.A short time later, a family member of the suspect contacted 911 and reported the suspect’s whereabouts. Police arrested the suspect at his home on North Locan Avenue, a mile and a half away from where the fatal collision happened.On Wednesday night, authorities booked 36-year-old Jonathan Petty of Clovis in jail for felony DUI, hit-and-run, and gross vehicular manslaughter.At this time, Petty i...

Elon Musk anti-trans tweets continue with views on Megan Fox and her kids

Published Tue, 04 Mar 2025 05:23:26 GMT

It shouldn’t be surprising that Elon Musk has weighed in on the social media spat between Megan Fox and Robby Starbuck over the conservative provocateur’s disputed allegations that the “Transformers” actor committed “child abuse” by forcing her three sons with Brian Austin Green to wear girl’s clothes.Musk has spent Pride Month promoting and “liking” various anti-LGBTQ messages, according to Insider, Them and TMZ. even though he has a transgender daughter who publicly disavowed her relationship with him last year. Among these messages, the Twitter CEO encouraged the parents among his 143 million followers to watch the 2022 online film, “What is a Woman?” by The Daily Wire’s Matt Walsh, which urges intolerance of trans people and opposes medical intervention for trans children, Insider said.BEVERLY HILLS, CA – JANUARY 13: Actress Megan Fox (L) and actor Brian Austin Green arrive at the 70th Annual Golden Gl...