WALY Radio | radioNOVO News NY News Roundup for April 30, 2026

Good morning,New York State’s long-overdue budget may finally be taking shape. Leaders in Albany are signaling progress nearly a month after the April first deadline. Senate Majority Leader Andrea Stewart-Cousins says negotiations are moving forward on key policy items, including possible reforms to car insurance laws, new immigration protections, and changes aimed at boosting housing development. Lawmakers have already passed multiple temporary spending measures to keep the state running while talks continue.Security is tight across Manhattan as King Charles III and Queen Camilla visit New York City. The royal visit includes high-profile stops and increased police presence, with officials coordinating closely to ensure safety throughout the city during their stay.In a Manhattan courtroom, testimony continues in the latest rape trial involving Harvey Weinstein. Accuser Jessica Mann is back on the stand, telling jurors the former film producer raped her in a hotel room back in 2013 despite repeated refusals. Weinstein denies the allegations, maintaining the encounter was consensual. His earlier conviction in 2020 was overturned, leading to this new trial.Meanwhile, changes are coming to airport safety across the region following a deadly crash at LaGuardia Airport. The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey says it will begin installing tracking devices on all airport vehicles. Investigators with the National Transportation Safety Board found the lack of tracking technology may have contributed to the March crash involving an Air Canada Express jet and a fire truck—an incident that killed both pilots.And in Brooklyn, a man at the center of a viral video showing him being beaten by undercover officers is now suing the city. Timothy Brown is seeking one-hundred-million-dollars, claiming excessive force after police allegedly mistook him for a drug suspect during an April 14th incident inside a liquor store. City officials have called the video disturbing, and the officers involved have already been stripped of their guns and badges as an internal investigation continues.And new numbers show Binghamton University is having a major economic impact across the state. A new report says the university generated nearly one-point-eight-billion-dollars for New York’s economy in the last fiscal year.More News on our radioNOVO App, Codi Gaboff, radioNOVO News — a service of Seven Mountains Media.