{"id":138019,"date":"2026-02-18T22:33:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-18T22:33:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/138019\/"},"modified":"2026-02-18T22:33:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-18T22:33:09","slug":"evening-briefing-in-cny","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/138019\/","title":{"rendered":"Evening Briefing in CNY"},"content":{"rendered":"

Good evening, Central New York. We’re wrapping up the day for you with the most important stories you need to know and your weather outlook.<\/p>\n

Your Weather Planner<\/p>\n

Rain, snow or a wintry mix will taper tonight with some patchy fog and mist possible.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Our weather briefly quiets back down for Thursday with variably cloudy skies from north to south. More sunshine is expected to the north across the North Country, with more clouds to the south. Highs will be in the 30s and 40s.<\/p>\n

Unsettled weather returns to the forecast late Thursday night into and through the day Friday. Expect rain, snow or a wintry mix to close out the week.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Tomorrow’s Forecast
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1.\u00a0Investigation reveals cause of explosion that injured 4 firefighters, pastor at Boonville church<\/a><\/p>\n

The New York State Police say heavy snow accumulation on the church’s roof led to the explosion at Abundant Life Fellowship on State Route 12.<\/p>\n

2.\u00a0Syracuse native, retired astronaut Jeanette Epps joins South Side Community Growth Foundation Board of Directors<\/a><\/p>\n

The non-profit supports the city’s south side with community-based investments.<\/p>\n

3.\u00a0Gillibrand introduces legislation to guarantee paid sick leave to American workers<\/a><\/p>\n

U.S. Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand introduced legislation that would guarantee paid sick leave for workers across the country, the junior New York senator said Wednesday.\u00a0According to Gillibrand\u2019s office, nearly 27 million American workers lack any paid sick time at all, including 20% of the private sector workforce and 7% of the public sector workforce.<\/p>\n

4.\u00a0Food in New York prisons lacks nutritional balance, advocates say<\/a><\/p>\n

A report from the Correctional Association of New York found\u00a0that\u00a0correctional facilities\u00a0serve about 50% of\u00a0the\u00a0recommended\u00a0amount of\u00a0fruit, and 80% of the recommended\u00a0amount\u00a0of vegetables and protein.\u00a0<\/p>\n

5.\u00a0State Working Families Party endorses Dylan Hewitt in race for NY-21 seat<\/a><\/p>\n

The South Glens Falls native\u00a0launched his bid in September\u00a0for the Democratic nomination\u00a0to succeed U.S. Rep. Elise Stefanik in the North Country U.S. House seat.<\/p>\n

6.\u00a0Eight backcountry skiers found dead and 1 still missing after California avalanche<\/a><\/p>\n

It is the deadliest avalanche in the U.S. since 1981, when 11 climbers were killed on Mount Rainier, Washington.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Good evening, Central New York. We’re wrapping up the day for you with the most important stories you…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":136712,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[268,25,257,56436,9,11,10,49,51,50],"class_list":{"0":"post-138019","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-app-evening-briefing","9":"tag-app-top-stories","10":"tag-central-ny","11":"tag-madyson-diaz","12":"tag-new-york","13":"tag-new-york-headlines","14":"tag-new-york-news","15":"tag-new-york-state","16":"tag-new-york-state-headlines","17":"tag-new-york-state-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138019","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=138019"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138019\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/136712"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=138019"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=138019"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=138019"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}