Plattsburgh

Communities in western and northern reaches of the state are expected to have the best viewing of the total eclipse, including Buffalo, Rochester, Syracuse, Lake Placid and Plattsburgh.

He was eventually taken into custody with help from multiple police agencies without further incident, Plattsburgh police said.

Robert Thibodeau, 52, was arrested Tuesday morning after police in Plattsburgh stopped his pickup truck and found the 12-gauge shotgun with two 10-round magazines and a box of ammunition.

The stop was made after a brother told police that Thibodeau had recently been fired from Champlain Valley Physicians Hospital in Plattsburgh and made comments about returning there to harm people, according to the Plattsburgh City Police Department.

Clinton County Sheriff David Favro told the Press-Republican of Plattsburgh. that “this is about as close as I’ve seen to what could have ended up in a mass casualty situation.”