From Times Union

  • Another upstate college is closing, with one week's notice

    AURORA – Another upstate college is closing. Wells College, in the Finger Lakes, is closing at the end of the semester, college officials announced Monday morning in a letter posted to the college website. This is the last week of classes of the current semester. “This is a difficult letter to write and an even more difficult letter to read and process. It is with profound sadness that we announce the forthcoming closure of our beloved Wells College at the end of this academic semester,” wrote...

  • President Biden grants clemency to Albany woman Stacy Wilder

    ALBANY — President Joe Biden granted clemency to a city woman who spent more than four years in federal prison for a nonviolent drug conviction. Stacy L. Wilder, 49, was one of several individuals given clemency on Wednesday, according to the White House. Wilder could not immediately be reached for comment. She and a co-defendant, Reginald V. Lacy, were indicted in September 2001 on several drug charges. The pair pleaded guilty several months later. Wilder was sentenced to more than five years...

  • Pitbull, T-Pain coming to SPAC in September with 'Party After Dark'

    Grab your “Fireball” and Apple Bottom jeans — Pitbull and special guest T-Pain are bringing the “Party After Dark” to Saratoga Springs. Pitbull’s "Party After Dark Tour," featuring special guest T-Pain, will play the Saratoga Performing Arts Center on Sept. 8. The 26-city tour launches on Aug. 21 from Virginia. Miami-born Pitbull began his career in the early 2000s. Two singles from his fourth studio album “Pitbull Starring in Rebelution” broke into the mainstream in 2009: “I Know You Want Me...

  • How a sedentary behavior expert finds time to move

    Dr. Deborah Rohm Young's work might move you – or at least make you think about moving around a bit. As director of behavioral research in the Kaiser Permanente Southern California Department of Research and Evaluation in Pasadena, Young's extensive body of work includes many studies about the healthy effects of physical activity – and the problems that come with inactivity. She also led the panel of experts who wrote an American Heart Association science advisory on sedentary behavior in 2016....