Thursday Headlines: Fraud And Carnage Edition

Happy Thursday! There’s a lot of news to get through today, from street safety and traffic crashes to election politics and public accountability.

Here’s the latest:

• An Ontario County Sheriff’s patrol car collided with another vehicle in a Hopewell roundabout Saturday morning. (Finger Lakes Daily News)
• A woman accused of driving drunk in a Syracuse crash that killed a 3-year-old girl told a court she was framed. (Syracuse.com)
• Two North Country residents, Samantha Merkle of Glens Falls and Jacques Patry of Tupper Lake, have been charged federally with voting in elections despite allegedly not being U.S. citizens; both were released pending further proceedings and are presumed innocent. (NCPR)
• SSenate Democrats are aiming to win enough seats in November to secure a veto-proof supermajority, which would allow them to override gubernatorial vetoes without Republican support. (The Times Union)
• Saratoga County Republican Committee Chair Joseph Suhrada says he will step down after a leaked phone call captured him using racist and homophobic slurs; he has claimed he was quoting a film and that his comments were taken out of context. (WAMC)
• Poughkeepsie Mayor Yvonne Flowers plans to veto the Common Council’s vote to end the city’s contract with Flock Safety, the company whose automated license-plate reader cameras have sparked debate over surveillance and data sharing. (Poughkeepsie Journal)
• A Connecticut man was killed after being struck by a car in Patterson. (Mid Hudson News)
• A pedestrian was injured in a hit-and-run on Route 9, and authorities are investigating the incident, according to Mid Hudson News. (Mid Hudson News)
• New York City Comptroller and congressional nominee Brad Lander was detained by Israeli forces while accompanying Palestinian farmers during an olive harvest in the occupied West Bank, then released several hours later; Mayor Zohran Mamdani called for the release of other New Yorkers who remained in custody. (amNewYork)
• Gov. Hochul leads Republican challenger Bruce Blakeman in a new poll, while Blakeman has secured another endorsement as the candidates intensify their campaigns ahead of Election Day. (NY1)