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Americans desire time travel, mind reading powers

Submitted by WNYT Staff
Tuesday, February 8th, 2011, 5:29pm
Americans desire time travel, mind reading powers

POUGHKEEPSIE, N.Y. (AP) - Being able to fly would be nice, so would invisibility. But given a chance to pick one superpower, more Americans say they would want to travel through time or read other people's minds.

Time travel and mind reading tied for first place in a Marist College poll released Tuesday. Both superpowers received 28 percent of the votes out of five choices. Flying came in third followed by the ability to teleport and invisibility.

Pollsters surveyed 1,020 people across the country Nov. 15 through Nov. 18. The margin of error is plus or minus three percentage points.

      

(Copyright 2011 by The Associated Press.  All Rights Reserved.)

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WNYT lights it up like it's 'Dynamite'

Submitted by WNYT Staff
Monday, January 24th, 2011, 5:48pm

We were so impressed by what the students at Monument Mountain Regional High School did that we were inspired to create our own lip dub.

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Paul Caiano's Zombie Warning Forecast

Submitted by Chris Rooney, WNYT Web Manager
Friday, October 29th, 2010, 1:03pm

According to meteorologist Paul Caiano, Halloween looks to have a mix of sun and clouds with a chance of zombies.

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Punching police horse lands Cohoes man in jail

Submitted by WNYT Staff
Wednesday, August 25th, 2010, 12:29pm

SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. (AP) - They don't take kindly to horse punchers in the summer thoroughbred racing mecca of Saratoga Springs.

Authorities say 37-year-old Jamison Johnson of Cohoes, near Albany, has been sentenced to 30 days in jail for punching a police horse after being ejected from a downtown Saratoga bar.

Police say Johnson was tossed out of the bar around 3 a.m. Aug. 15 and began yelling and swearing at the bar's staff and nearby officers. Police say he then walked up to a police horse and rider on crowd-control duty and punched the animal in the face.

The horse wasn't hurt.

Police say Johnson was arrested after a brief struggle with officers.

City court officials say Johnson pleaded guilty Tuesday to attempted injury to a police animal and resisting arrest.
      

(Copyright 2010 by The Associated Press.  All Rights Reserved.)

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