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It's the unofficial kickoff of summer this weekend with Memorial Day!  Hopefully yours is an enjoyable one, and you don't get sick with any of this tainted meat. According to WNYT, over 62,000 pounds of raw beef has been recalled.  A possible E...

Another one bites the dust! Yet another clothing store is shutting down, impacting the Capital Region. While it seems like the trend of store-closings is less than last year (that's my impression, I don't know the statistics), it still hasn't stopped...

Well this is something.  Sure it's been awhile since I took the SAT exam for school, but back then it was out of 1600 and the exam didn't care who you were (well, it did only for scoring purposes).  It just mattered how you did and what your score was for a college...

This might not be a shock to some, but it turns out, New York is a pretty so-so place to live. I'm not saying I agree, though where we landed was pretty humorous.  Sure the winter's over so my mood is a little bit better (though I didn't appreciate the snow flakes around Mother's Day when I was in the mountains)...

Happy Mother's Day to all of the mom's out there!  Just in time for a day that celebrates how amazing moms really are, I figured it would be fun to check out a list of the top baby names of 2018 (since I'm sure there are many soon-to-be moms out there too)...

Incubus have announced a tour to celebrate the 20th Anniversary of their hugely successful (and amazing) album "Make Yourself". The tour announcement, so aptly named "20 Years of Make Yourself & Beyond" was posted by Consequence of Sound (at least, where I saw it).  ...

In case you somehow missed it (though it was all over the news and social media), the 'Simpsons' recently had an episode where it made fun of Upstate New York.  It even hit close to home, with Niskayuna making an appearance as part of the episode...

This summer, teenagers can work out AND potentially win a scholarship with Planet Fitness. Starting May 15th, the Planet Fitness ‘Teen Summer Challenge’ kicks off.  Teenagers aged 15 to 18 can spend the summer working out as much as they want at Planet Fitness, and according to their official site, any teen who signs up is automatically entered into the Planet Fitness Scholarship Sweepstakes... Re

It's great to love live music... but sometimes too much love can be not a good thing. It's one thing to go to a music festival and get a little crazy and leave with an amazing music experience.  It's another to leave with the 'gift that keeps on giving'- herpes...

To someone who loves all things spooky, scary, and spiritual, this was huge news. Lorraine Warren, clairvoyant who along with her husband Ed served as an inspiration for the hit ‘Conjuring’ universe movies, passed away at the age of 92...

OK- so sure, Albany isn’t a perfectly picturesque scenic tourist destination like Fiji or something.  But we’re not exactly living in a piling heap of trash.  However, one famous comedian recently called Albany the ‘biggest dump’ of the 28 cities on his tour...

As if it’s not bad enough with the Fentanyl already... A pretty common drug recently was found to laced with Fentanyl.  News 10 abc reported a police warning issued about Fentanyl-laced marijuana.  The News 10 abc report said that marijuana laced with Fentanyl was confiscated in a parking lot, and also that three people were found unconscious in a car in a separate incident, leading to the issue o