Big Hits BG | radioNOVO News NY News Roundup for June 15, 2026

Good morning,History was made on Wall Street as technology markets crowned a new global financial titan. Shares of Elon Musk’s aerospace firm SpaceX surged nearly twenty percent following its massive Nasdaq debut—marking the largest initial public offering in human history. The historic trading session pushed SpaceX’s total valuation past two-trillion dollars, officially making Musk the world’s first-ever trillionaire. Company officials say the record-shattering capital haul will directly fund upcoming deep-space exploration and orbital infrastructure networks.Meanwhile, the celebration continues across the Empire State this morning after the New York Knicks captured the N-B-A Championship, securing their first world title in fifty-three years. The Knicks overcame an early double-digit deficit to defeat the San Antonio Spurs ninety-four to ninety in Game Five of the finals. Captain Jalen Brunson set a franchise record with forty-five points to take home Finals M-V-P honors.While New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani announced a massive ticker-tape parade down the Canyon of Heroes this Thursday, the celebration turned chaotic in Manhattan over the weekend. The N-Y-P-D confirmed that more than sixty people were arrested in Times Square after unruly fans clashed with officers, smashed car windshields, and set several municipal buses on fire.Turning to regional news, a devastating local crime has shaken Ulster County. In Saugerties, a fifteen-year-old boy has pleaded not guilty to second-degree murder charges in the death of his eighty-eight-year-old neighbor, Elena Bonjolo. Investigators allege the teenager used blunt force trauma to kill Bonjolo outside an abandoned West Camp residence. He is currently being held without bail.In judicial news, a Central New York businessman is heading to state prison for orchestrating a massive, multi-decade financial fraud. A Madison County judge has sentenced seventy-four-year-old Burt Marshall to up to twelve years behind bars for running a ninety-million-dollar Ponzi scheme that spanned more than thirty years. Investigators say Marshall defrauded nearly one-thousand local investors, who are currently expected to recover just four cents on every dollar they lost.Safety officials are investigating after a scary situation unfolded at a Westchester County infrastructure site. A worker is recovering this morning following a chlorine leak at a Department of Environmental Protection facility in Valhalla yesterday afternoon. One employee suffered a chemical burn but has already been treated and released. A D-E-P spokesperson confirmed that New York City’s drinking water network remains completely safe and unaffected.In Western New York, clean-up crews are assessing the damage after a severe weekend storm cut power to more than three thousand N-Y-S-E-G customers and forced the sixty-ninth annual Allentown Art Festival to pack up early in Buffalo yesterday. Heavy winds blew over vendor booths and caused localized flooding throughout the festival grounds.And election officials are reminding New Yorkers that early voting for the upcoming June primary is officially underway across the state. Local boards of commissioners say rigid safeguards are in place to prevent voter fraud as residents head to the polls. Early voting runs straight through June twenty-first ahead of Primary Day on Tuesday, June twenty-third.For more news, download the radioNOVO app. I’m Codi Gaboff, radioNOVO News, a service of Seven Mountains Media.