Albany Metro News

ALBANY - The governor interspersed some vetoes among the dozens of new laws he signed in recent days, including ones that would have created a Women's Rights History Trail and permitted senior-citizen housing ...

Three upstate New York metropolitan areas will see fresh infusions of cash to prevent and respond to terror attacks, but Buffalo will get less money than last year.

ALBANY, N.Y. : Many drug addicts, problem gamblers and alcoholics may find it harder to kick their habits in New York now that the state has become the first in the country to ban smoking at all recovery ...

Eliot Spitzer. The state Public Integrity Commission found insufficient evidence to charge anyone else, including Spitzer.

State police say the New York State Thruway is closed in both directions between Exits 26 and 27 because of roadway flooding caused by heavy rain.

AP - New York Gov. David Paterson says a bill he signed will lead to restrictions on video game violence.

ALBANY -- Gov. David Paterson is scheduled to sign legislation this afternoon that will provide more incentives to clean up polluted sites, cap tax credits for redevelopment to limit the state's liability and ...

Schenectady Police are currently investigating an armed robbery at a liquor store on Eastern Parkway across from Price Chopper.

A New York priest accused of raping three teenage boys in Boston during the 1970s and '80s pleaded guilty yesterday, in a deal that will spare him time in prison and the victims the anguish of testifying about ...

A Franciscan priest from New York has pleaded guilty to charges of raping three teenage boys during overnight trips to Boston in the 1970s and 1980s.

ALBANY, N.Y. : New York's attorney general notified Comcast Corp. on Monday that the state will take legal action if the company - the nation's second-largest Internet service provider - doesn't agree to ...

ALBANY - Gov. David Paterson will recommend Monday that the state back a higher-education panel's proposal to create a low-cost loan program for students at public and private schools, according to a ...

COUPLE OF DRUG ARRESTS AT THE ALBANY COUNTY JAIL. SHERIFF'S DEPARTMENT SAYS 22-YR-OLD DAVID CROWLEY OF LOUDONVILLE...BEHIND BARS ON A PAROLE VIOLATION...WAS FOUND TO HAVE ABOUT 9 GRAMS OF COCAINE IN A PAIR OF ...

By RICHARD RICHTMYER The Associated Press Sunday, July 20, 2008; 5:15 PM ALBANY, N.Y. -- Stethoscope? Check.

A Troy woman accused of stabbing her ex-boyfriend to death is facing new charges.

ALBANY - Bugs in new voting machines, difficulties getting storage space funding and general anxiety about changing a system that's been around more than a century are problems counties face as the state ...

Posted on: 07/16/08 Written by: Ross Marvin, Spotlight Staff email: marvinr@spotlightnews.com Rotterdam police arrested two men on Tuesday, July 15 for carrying handguns in Rotterdam Square Mall.

ALBANY - New York's new integrated algebra test administered in June was so hard that a student could get a 'raw score' of just 30 points out of a possible 87 and still pass.

ALBANY - State legislative leaders are still waiting to meet with new economic development Chairman Robert Wilmers about his plans for the Empire State Development Corp.

State Senator Joseph Bruno is spending his last afternoon on the job touring his upstate district by bus, making stops at places that have benefited from his powerful influence on state spending as senate ...