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State University of New York officials have revoked an honorary award given to television host Charlie Rose over sexual harassment allegations.
The Daily News reports that SUNY Board of Trustees voted Tuesday to revoke the doctor of humane letters degree that Rose received from SUNY Oswego in 2014.
Rose was fired by CBS, and PBS cut ties with him after several women accused him of unwanted sexual advances.

The throne wasn't seized with the help of dragons, but change in a leadership in the Albany County Legislature that's been largely stagnant for a quarter century has left many doing double-takes.Albany Democrat Gary Domalewicz succeeded Legislator Frank Commisso Sr. as majority leader last week in a move that shocked some longtime legislators and excited others. Commisso resigned from his 25-year reign as head of the legislature's Democrats on Thursday.

Saratoga SpringsMore than a dozen lawn jockeys—painted in elegant racing silks and pale peach skin— in front of the National Museum of Racing were hung with Confederate flags Tuesday night before dawn. Someone who claims to be a participant emailed a local TV station to describe the action as a protest against symbols of slavery. The museum removed the flags immediately. And emphatically disputes the protesters' premise.

We're live at the Palace Theater, where the Arena Football League team will announce its name tonight at 6 p.m.

SARATOGA SPRINGS — The recent lawsuit filed by Saratoga County against pharmaceutical companies will for the time being be consolidated with dozens of other similar actions in New York, a lawyer representing several Capital Region counties said.

ALBANY — A series of measures that would strengthen New York's laws against domestic violence, including increased protections for victims and their families, were outlined by a task force of Assembly Republicans on Tuesday.

Unemployment climbed across upstate New York in December, with nearly all metropolitan areas posting rates higher than the national rate of 3.9 percent.The Capital Region's unemployment rate rose 0.3 percentage points to 4.2 percent of the workforce. Only New York City posted a decline, to 3.9 percent from 4.4 percent in December 2016.The strongest job markets were to be found in the eastern part of the state. Of the 11 counties statewide with unemployment rates at or below 4.1 percent, only one — Tompkins County — was outside the Hudson Valley/New York City region.

AlbanyIndustry groups appear divided over proposed state rules that would require more pay to workers for last-minute shift changes.On Tuesday, the Business Council of New York, an industry lobbying group, urged the state Labor Department to scrap its proposals and have the issue instead addressed by state lawmakers."This rule would impose challenging administrative compliance burdens on many employers, and would prove nearly impossible to deal with for some sectors," wrote Frank Kerbein, director of the council's Center for Human Resources.

Don't mess with our internet.That's the message a group of lawmakers are sending via a proposal that would force internet service providers to charge the same price for all their transmissions or lose their state government contracts.Sponsored by Albany Democratic Assemblywoman Patricia Fahy and Rockland Independent Democratic Conference member David Carlucci, the bill is one of several efforts nationwide to counter the Trump Administration's move to deregulate internet prices.