radioNOVO News NY News Roundup for August 14, 2026

Good morning.In top news across the Empire State, twenty-eight-year-old Luigi Mangione is expected to plead guilty Friday morning in Manhattan federal court to federal stalking charges stemming from the December twenty-twenty-four ambush and killing of UnitedHealthcare C-E-O Brian Thompson. The federal plea deal carries a potential life sentence and comes just weeks before Mangione was set to go on trial in New York State Court on second-degree murder charges. State prosecutors have expressed concern that a federal plea could spark legal arguments over double jeopardy regarding the state murder trial.In Albany, Governor Kathy Hochul announced New York will allocate seven-point-two-five million dollars to provide legal aid for nearly fourteen-hundred unaccompanied immigrant children facing deportation hearings. The state funding step-in comes as a long-standing federal contract for youth legal assistance expired July thirty-first. Governor Hochul also emphasized state enforcement starting this month that bans formal cooperation agreements between local law enforcement and federal I-C-E agents.Turning to federal court in White Plains, two Westchester County women are among eleven people charged in a massive federal marriage fraud scheme. Prosecutors allege the operation arranged more than one-thousand sham marriages dating back to twenty-sixteen to help foreign nationals illegally obtain legal permanent residency. Meanwhile in Monroe County, a Pittsford father and son—seventy-five-year-old Talib Hussain and forty-eight-year-old Mirza Khan—have been indicted by a federal grand jury for an elaborate credit card and identity theft scheme that generated over two-point-two million dollars in losses.In Western New York, two missing Allegany County children have been found safe in Georgia after a three-month nationwide search. U-S Marshals located six-year-old Amara and four-year-old Lincoln Koschuk living in a shed with their non-custodial mother, forty-two-year-old Nicole Koschuk, in Trenton, Georgia. Koschuk was arrested on a felony warrant for first-degree custodial interference and is awaiting extradition, while both children were unharmed and are being reunited with their legal custodian.And state officials have broken ground on a six-point-two-five-million-dollar trail project along the Genesee Valley Greenway State Park. The project will construct four new bridges across northern Allegany County, closing critical trail gaps and creating twenty-two miles of continuous continuous multi-use trails through Western New York without requiring detours onto Route Nineteen.For more news, download the radioNOVO app. I’m Codi Gaboff, radioNOVO News, a service of Seven Mountains Media.