Solar power or housing? Where has Anthony Bechand gone?
Also, man admits to killing on TV.
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Chess is life
Albany resident John Oyeyemi Fawole became a chess champion at a young age in Nigeria, and in 2019, relocated to the United States, becoming an instructor at chess organizations like Charlotte Chess Center and ChessNYC. After a relocation to the Capital Region, he created the Albany Chess Center, this past June, and it has grown with Grand Masters of the game offering instruction, space to play the game, and space to read or talk about the game. Fawole told the paper that chess is like life—each decision a player makes, matters.
Man charged in murder of parents
The son of an elderly couple that had gone missing in 2017 and whose bodies were found buried in their backyard on Wednesday and Thursday has been charged with their murder, the Times Union said. He was charged after admitting to the murder in a 30-minute interview on WRGB Channel 6 news. He was arrested outside the station after the confession. Investigators had started to search for the parents after the Social Security Administration asked for a wellness check on them. The son, Lorenz Kraus, 53, had already been under investigation for financial matters, earlier stories said.
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Springs’ school heads to the Fort, again
Lake Avenue Elementary School’s fifth-grade students spent a week at camp in Fort Ann where they spent four days and three nights in the outdoors, without electronic devices, writing, bonding with kids and teachers, journaling and completing the classics of camp: archery, canoeing, hiking, and more, the Saratogian is reporting. The school has done this for about two decades and uses it as a way to offer alternative learning and to help develop student independence, the story says.
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Where ICE hangs out
Thousands of immigrants in Upstate New York have been detained in the “removal operations” run by the Immigration and Customs Enforcement office, and hundreds of them have been sent out-of-country, the Times Union is reporting. “ICE has regularly arrested immigrants across New York at their homes, during traffic stops, at their jobs, at immigration office appearances, and also at state prisons, local jails, police stations and probation offices,” the story says. They analyzed data from the ICE for the story. Locally: 130 ICE arrests in Albany County, 118 in Saratoga County, and 30 in both Rensselaer and Schenectady counties.
12 days and the suspect is still at large
Twelve days into a large-scale manhunt in the Adirondacks,
Police on the hunt for a man they believe killed his girlfriend in Cohoes and fled to the Adirondacks still do not have him, 12 days in, a story on the NCPR website says. They believe that suspect Anthony Bechand is wounded, but how badly they could not say. About 100 officers have searched 950 acres in the Paul Smith’s area, where his truck was found abandoned. Police believe he is still alive, the story says.
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