radioNOVO News NY News Roundup for June 08, 2026

Good morning,We lead with history at the racetrack. Golden Tempo has captured the final leg of horse racing’s Triple Crown with a dramatic victory at the Belmont Stakes in Saratoga Springs. Ridden by jockey Jose Ortiz, the star Thoroughbred surged from the back of the pack to hold off Commandment at the finish line. The historic win comes just five weeks after the horse’s famous victory at the Kentucky Derby. The win cements a historic milestone for trainer Cherie DeVaux (duh-VOE), who is now the first female trainer in horse racing history to win two Triple Crown races in the same calendar year.Down in Manhattan, a celebration outside Madison Square Garden turned chaotic this weekend. Seventeen people are facing criminal charges and multiple police officers are injured following a rowdy watch party for Game Two of the NBA Finals. Police say sixty-five hundred fans filled the streets to watch the Knicks defeat the San Antonio Spurs. The situation turned violent when twenty-nine-year-old Karely Reyes allegedly jumped a security barricade, punching a female officer in the face and biting a second officer on the wrist. Others were rounded up for climbing light poles, destroying property, and blocking city traffic.In business and tech news, New York State has officially paused the construction of all new digital infrastructure. Lawmakers have passed a strict, one-year moratorium on new data center developments. The temporary freeze comes after intense pushback from local communities—including East Fishkill in Dutchess County—where residents raised severe alarms over how the massive, energy-draining data facilities would impact local power grids, neighborhoods, and the environment.And looking ahead to a historic milestone, New York state officials are launching more than two hundred exhibitions to celebrate America’s two-hundred-and-fiftieth anniversary. Major summer events will include a massive international flotilla of ships in the New York Harbor and the civilian and military Four-Leaf Air Show at Jones Beach State Park.For more news, download the radioNOVO app. I’m Codi Gaboff, radioNOVO News, a service of Seven Mountains Media.