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ASSOCIATED PRESS - Security was tightened around the New York state Capitol on Thursday and law enforcement officials around the state were focusing on potential threats, even as they continued to track down people involved in last week's mob attack on the U.S. Congress. The FBI warned several days ago that armed protests by violent Trump supporters were being planned in all 50 state capitals in the days leading up to the inauguration of President-elect Joe Biden.
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ALBANY, NY (WSKG) - One day after announcing that five new state-run vaccination sites are opening this week, Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s office is warning that appointments for the limited number of vaccines at those sites are already booked through April. On Wednesday, Cuomo’s office announced that large-scale vaccination sites at the Jacob Javits Center in New York City, the Westchester County Center, the New York State Fairgrounds in Syracuse, State University of New York at Albany and Jones Beach are opening this week and will vaccinate thousands of New Yorkers in the coming months.
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STATE COLLEGE, PA (WPSU) — As the general public awaits COVID-19 vaccination across the country and in Pennsylvania, questions remain about how vaccines will reach rural communities and how accepting of the remedy rural residents will be. During a public hearing held by the Center for Rural Pennsylvania Wednesday, Dr. George Garrow, Chief Medical Officer of Primary Health Network, which has dozens of community health centers in central and western Pennsylvania, said adapting vaccine delivery for rural communities is key.
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TOMPKINS COUNTY, NY (WSKG) - Freshman New York State Assemblymember Anna Kelles was pleased with most of what she heard in Governor Andrew Cuomo’s State of the State speeches this week. The speech occurs every year at the beginning of the legislative session and lays out the governor’s legislative priorities.
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BINGHAMTON, NY (WSKG) — New York will allow all restaurants in Orange Zones to open for indoor dining. The announcement came a day after a New York State Supreme Court justice ruled over 90 restaurants in Erie County’s Orange Zone could follow Yellow Zone guidance.
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