Midday News Brief
Written by Dan Fischer on May 21, 2021
Gov. Andrew Cuomo
New information has been revealed involving the sexual harassment allegations made against Governor Cuomo.
According to The Washington Post his brother, CNN anchor Chris Cuomo, was involved in giving advice about how the governor should respond to the claims.
In a statement, CNN said it was inappropriate for Cuomo to take part in those talks and that he won’t be involved in them going forward.
Governor Cuomo has denied sexually harassing anyone and says he has no plans to step down.
Everyone who missed out on winning the big Mega Millions jackpot earlier this week will get another chance to strike it rich tonight.
The jackpot has grown to 515-million-dollars which is one of the top 10 totals in the game’s history. No one has won Mega Millions since February 16th when a New York couple took home a huge prize. Tickets cost $2 and the live drawing starts at 11 pm at www.megamillions.com.
The Empire Hemp Company has officially opened it’s doors at 204 Main Street
Owners Chris VanDusen and Sally Wolanske have actually been opened for about a money but yesterday was the ceremonial ribbon cutting.
Empire Hemp’s retail store is new. A processing and manufacturing facility has been operating for several months.
The company extracts the CBD oil from hemp and processes various products in concentrations of THC – at the active ingredient in marijuana – that are within legal limits.
New York State is putting up quite a large amount of money to urge people to get themselves vaccinated against COVID-19. As part of the “Vax and Scratch” program, a lot of folks who receive vaccine next week will get a free lottery scratch-off ticket that could be worth up to five-million dollars. The promotion runs this coming Monday through next Friday at some of the state’s mass vaccination sites. So far, over 18-million doses of COVID-19 vaccine have been administered in the Empire State.
The nearest state operated mass vaccination site
