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The judge in Lindsay Clancy's murder case has declared a mistrial after the jury was unable to agree on a verdict.
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(Airs 09/04/26 @ 3 p.m. & 09/06/26 @ 6 p.m.) The Media Project is an inside look at media coverage of current events with former Times Union Editor, current Upstate American, Substack columnist Rex Smith, Judy Patrick, former Editor of The Daily Gazette and former Vice President for Editorial Development for the New York Press Association, and Barbara Lombardo, Adjunct Professor at the University at Albany and former Editor of The Saratogian. On this week’s Media Project, Rex, Judy, and Barbara talk about whether a Washington Post columnist should be punished for saying another journalist at the paper is a traitor, whether the major TV networks are self-censoring, and much more.
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Investigators say a female employee was injured when appeared to be a pickup truck accidentally slammed through the wall of the shop on the US side of the border.
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Staff at the closed tourist attraction have completed the largest collective move of captive whales ever seen in the world.
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Gwen Squire, an influential Buffalo-area disability rights advocate, passed away on Friday at age 60.
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A citizen scientist discovered a new species of tardigrade, otherwise known as a water bear or moss piglet.
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The global effort to end child marriage is in the news. In the U.S., there's a new bill before Congress (but it's controversial). And the U.N. is designating a day dedicated to ending the practice.
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Germany's AfD's TikTok-fueled rise in Saxony-Anhalt is raising fears the country could see its first far-right governor since World War II.
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Research published in the journal Science illuminates a "missing piece" in the biological understanding of profound autism and offers new targets for drug development.
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Plus: George Santos is back in the news!