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ALBANY — New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo has a new plan to reduce asthma and asthma-related illnesses.The Democrat is proposing a pilot program called "Healthy Homes" that would provide help to 500 low-income families living in areas with the highest rates of asthma-related illness.The families would receive help to reduce environmental factors that can worsen the condition. Assistance could come in the form of asthma-friendly cleaning kits, mattress and pillow covers [...]

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — A deadly arctic deep freeze enveloped the Midwest, forcing widespread closure of schools, offices and prompting the U.S. Postal Service to take the rare step of suspending mail delivery to a wide swath of the region because of the cold.Many normal activities shut down and residents huddled inside as the National Weather Service forecast plunging temperatures from one of the coldest air masses in years. The bitter cold is the result of a split in the [...]

Snow showers likely, mainly before 3 pm. The snow could be heavy at times. Areas of blowing snow after 1 pm. Partly sunny, with a temperature rising to near 16 by noon, then falling to around 6 during the remainder of the day. Wind chill values as low as -13. Southwest wind 8 to 17 mph, with gusts as high as 30 mph. Chance of precipitation is 70%. Total daytime snow accumulation of less than a half inch possible.---------------------------------------------- [...]

Rep. Antonio Delgado will field questions from constituents in Livingston Manor on Saturday, his third town-hall gathering since taking office this month.Delgado, a Rhinebeck Democrat who unseated one-term Republican Rep. John Faso, will hold the gathering from 3 p.m. to 4 p.m. at Livingston Manor Central School at 19 School Street. Delgado represents the 11-county 19th Congressional District, which includes Ulster and Sullivan counties.

Due to the extreme cold and concern for the health and welfare of the drivers and the horses, live racing on Wednesday January 30 has been canceled.  Live racing resumes on Thursday January 31, at 12:50, Qualifiers have been rescheduled for next week.

BUFFALO — Gov. Andrew Cuomo urged people to stay off western New York roads Wednesday as authorities dealt with an arctic blast that caused whiteout conditions and was expected to create dangerously low windchills."Stay off the roads. Let the plows do their work," he said while joining state and local officials for a news conference at a state Department of Transportation facility in the Buffalo suburb of Cheektowaga.Cuomo said there was already 11 inches of snow [...]

CITY OF NEWBURGH — Two students from the Newburgh school district have been invited to attend My Brother's Keeper Alliance's first national summit in Oakland, California, next month.Jeremiah Palemon and Kameren King, seniors at Newburgh Free Academy's North campus, will attend the invitation-only summit with chaperone Rawle Shewprashad, a teacher at NFA's Main and West campuses, according to a news release from the school district.The My Brother's Keeper Rising! [...]

When you create the Medicaid Asset Protection Trust (MAPT), you may or may not have to file an income tax return for the trust. If assets in the trust produce gross income of $600 or more in a year, then the MAPT must file an income tax return. If assets in the trust produce no income or produce gross income of less than $600 in a year, then the MAPT does not have to file an income tax return. Income-producing assets may include rental property, stock, bonds, mutual funds and certificates of [...]

TOWN OF NEWBURGH — A City of Newburgh man has been arrested in connection to an armed robbery at a Valero gas station in the Town of Newburgh last week.Police charged Ashante Caston, 23, of the City of Newburgh, with first-degree robbery, a felony.Police Chief Bruce Campbell said in a previous Times Herald-Record report that a masked-man used what appeared to be a semi-automatic handgun to threaten a clerk at the Valero gas station at 209 South Plank Road on [...]

CITY OF NEWBURGH — What started as a stove fire within minutes grew into a full-blown kitchen fire Friday night at a single-family home on Odell Street in Newburgh, the acting city fire chief said.City firefighters received an alert of an automatic fire alarm at the Odell Street home, located on the west end of the city, about 9:15 p.m., Acting Chief Terry Ahlers said Saturday.The assistant fire chief on duty arrived at the scene about 9:19 p.m. and an engine [...]