Albany NY

GRAFTON – There were flags. There were red flags. There were other people who knew Whitney Fowler was in a dangerous place. They knew her marriage to Joshua Fowler was on the rocks. They knew she was a domestic abuse victim. “If he laid a hand on her, I would have laid a hand on […]

Cohoes police and federal agents searched 46 Columbia St. at 1:55 p.m. on Wednesday and found 39-year-old Mikel Hackett, who allegedly killed a 26-year-old man in Syracuse on April 23.

There’s a fiscal crisis unfolding in New York—and it’s emptying the pockets of Nassau County residents. Medicaid is consuming a staggering 41.8% of the state’s $252 billion budget, amounting to $105.4 billion annually. That’s not a typo! More than two of every five dollars spent by New York State now funds a Medicaid...

The hospital has one of the worst rates in New York of these cases among Medicare patients. Accidentally leaving objects in surgery patients is a rare medical error that should never happen.

ALBANY, N.Y. — At the historic USS Slater, a bell rang as veterans and families dropped flowers into the water to commemorate National Destroyer Escort Day. The ceremony honored all destroyer escorts and sailors lost during World War II. More than 500 escorts protected Allied ship convoys from submarine and air...

SCHENECTADY, N.Y. — The former armory in Schenectady briefly transformed into an arsenal as 367 firearms were turned in during a "gun buyback" event at Armory Studios Saturday. Attorney General Letitia James announced the collection, which included 147 assault weapons and 65 long guns. Police stated that individuals...

Leaders of the search for Leo Dufour say DEC's intentional destruction of old Adirondack logging roads reduced options to speed hunt for the Canadian hiker later found dead on Allen Mountain.

I brought several of my film and digital cameras with me on my 40th college reunion two weeks ago. Rather than let everybody sit in the car and just go from Albany to Central New York and back, I wanted to give all of the cameras a chance to shine at one point in time or another.

Troy Police responded to a two-car crash in the area of the intersection of 5th Avenue and 113th Street. The crash involved a Green Island Police patrol car, police said the officer was not responding to an emergency.

A Brooklyn man was charged with drug possession and assault, after a traffic stop in Albany. Nkosi King is charged with criminal possession of a controlled substance, assault, and resisting arrest, according to investigators. Police say King was stopped on Clinton Avenue for a traffic violation. He allegedly left...