ALBANY - Wanda Hernandez has been living with HIV/AIDS for over a decade. 

She says she's tired of feeling like a criminal for using marijuana to battle the effects of her illness.

"Because of my HIV medication, I have constant battles of nausea and I have trouble holding down the food that I need to maintain myself and stay healthy but when I can use marijuana, it helps me settle my stomach and I feel comfortable," Hernandez said at a news conference in the Legislative Office Building.

Committee chairs in both the Assembly and the State Senate are pushing for a law that would allow doctors to prescribe marijuana.

The patient would be required to register with the Department of Health and under most circumstances purchase the pot from a hospital or pharmacy.  

BALLSTON SPA - Stores often see strange customers, but this may have been one of the strangest.

A manager at the Curtis Lumber in Ballston Spa says a woman walked in Tuesday, but was missing something: Her clothes.

The naked shopper walked in, asked some employees what time it was, then left. Minutes later, she reportedly walked into the Stewart's Shop on East Line Road.

The unidentified streaker was later arrested by police.

Voters in five school districts in the Capital Region rejected their school budgets.

Fonda-Fultonville, Oppenheim-Ephratah, Stillwater, Cobleskill and Germantown's budgets were voted down.

NewsChannel 13 still doesn’t the results from a number of school districts, but an overwhelming majority of budgets passed Tuesday night.

NewsChannel 13 also just learned that voters in Amsterdam said yes to override a new tax levy formula set forth by the state.

Bethlehem and Ballston Spa residents also voted for the measure. Click here for more information on the budget.