WUZZ Radio | radioNOVO News NY News Roundup for May 28, 2026

Good morning,State lawmakers are expressing immense confidence that a final, two-hundred-and-seventy-billion-dollar state budget will officially be passed by the end of this week. In a major development, the legislature approved its fifteenth budget extender after voting to pass historic, highly controversial rollbacks to New York's landmark climate law. The new budget language scraps a strict legal mandate to cut greenhouse gas emissions by forty percent by twenty-thirty, replacing it with a more flexible goal for twenty-forty. Governor Kathy Hochul heavily campaigned for the changes, arguing they protect consumers from soaring energy costs, while environmental groups slam the backsliding as a major mistake.At the same time, the budget features Governor Hochul’s landmark "Let Them Build" agenda. The sweeping package delivers the most significant reforms to the fifty-year-old State Environmental Quality Review Act since nineteen-seventy-five. By slashing red tape and eliminating duplicative environmental reviews for low-risk housing developments, state officials say the changes will cut project delivery times by up to fifty percent and lower per-unit building costs.Turning to the courts, a Monroe County jury has found a Perinton man guilty of attempted murder in a brutal knife attack now classified as a hate crime. Authorities say Derrick Van Epps stabbed victim Dylan Ghaemi several times on the Indian Hill Trail last June. Investigators targeted the case as a hate crime because the victim is a first-generation American whose family is from Iran. Van Epps faces up to twenty-five years in state prison when he is sentenced this July.Down state, an off-duty N-Y-P-D officer has been placed on modified duty following a wild shooting incident in Rockland County. Investigators say the officer became involved in a physical altercation in a Haverstraw ShopRite parking lot on Sunday after a man allegedly harassed his daughter. During the fight, the officer fired a single shot from his legally owned firearm. Fortunately, no one was seriously injured, and local police are continuing to investigate.Up in Syracuse, a commercial truck driver has been ticketed after a destructive collision with a railroad bridge. Police say the tractor-trailer slammed into the Park Street overpass, completely ripping the roof off the vehicle's trailer. The driver initially fled the scene but was quickly tracked down by officers utilizing a citywide network of traffic cameras. The incident marks the second major rail bridge strike in the Syracuse area over the holiday weekend.And Southern Tier motorists should prepare for traffic delays starting today as the state D-O-T launches major lane closures on Interstate Four-Eighty-One. Southbound lanes will be reduced to a single lane between Exit Eighty-One and Interstate Eighty-One in Syracuse from six a.m. to six p.m. today and tomorrow. The paving work is part of the ongoing Interstate Eighty-One Viaduct replacement project.Finally, some good news for soccer and family fun as Legoland New York announces a massive summer attraction. The theme park in Orange County will host the official F-I-F-A World Cup twenty-twenty-six Experience starting June eleventh. The interactive display will feature custom Lego jersey builds and a life-sized Lego version of the World Cup trophy, all included with regular park admission.For more news, download the radioNOVO app. I’m Codi Gaboff, radioNOVO News, a service of Seven Mountains Media.