Albany News Updates Provided by News 10
Wednesday April 25, 2012 
If Kim Kardashian and Kanye West are dating together for publicity - it's working.
Mitt Romney has done what he was expected to do by winning New York's Republican presidential primary.
AIDS activists plan to march on Wall Street to demand that the government tax market trades to fund universal health care.
Two-time Grammy winner Chuck Mangione (man-gee-OWN') is among the first class of inductees of the Rochester Music Hall of Fame.
A man has been charged with second-degree murder in an upstate New York killing that led to the death of his step-brother, also a suspect in the case.
Concerns about student performance have led New York's Board of Regents to vote to close a Buffalo charter school in June.
The rectory of a shuttered Catholic church in the Syracuse diocese is being auctioned off.
The state's top court is set to hear arguments on public disclosure of informants and teachers who were subjects of the anti-communist investigations by New York City Board of Education from the 1930s to the 1960s.
The Republican presidential nomination all but in hand, Mitt Romney is refocusing his efforts on challenging President Barack Obama, raising cash for the battle ahead and reconciling with onetime primary rival Rick Santorum.

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The NYPD is looking for a masked suspect who robbed a Queens fast food restaurant after locking the workers in a freezer.
A New York City detective has been charged with leaving the scene of an accident involving an 82-year-old woman.
Grants totaling more than $1 million have been awarded to dozens of nonprofit land trusts from Long Island to Buffalo to conserve New York's agricultural lands and other resources.
A former New York City finance commissioner has been fined $22,000 by the Conflicts of Interest Board.
Authorities say seven young adults have escaped serious injuries after their sport utility vehicle crashed and rolled over on a Syracuse-area highway.
Authorities say a second suspect has been arrested in connection with the beating death of a man whose body was found in a vacant lot in Syracuse earlier this month.
Two men from New York face charges after a New Jersey state trooper found more than $783,000 in their vehicle during a traffic stop.
A former Northern California judo instructor is expected to get three years in prison for having sex with a 15-year-old girl.
Authorities say someone made a clean getaway when they stole nearly three dozen bathtubs from a western New York hotel that's being renovated.
Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich is all but conceding that his White House campaign is over.
The FBI says it has arrested four associates of a New York man convicted in a $400 million Ponzi scheme.

The Schenectady Police Department says Wednesday they have made an arrest in connection with a kidnapping case that occurred earlier this month.
Wednesday is National Walk at Lunch Day.
(AP) 04-25-12 11:20,, President GOP - Primary 10,047 of 10,780 precincts - 93 percent
Albany Police Department PIO Steven Smith says that due to the 2012 Law Day Run Against Domestic Violence on Thursday, April 26th, in Washington Park parking will be restricted in some areas.

- Power was knocked out to residents in Rotterdam and Schenectady Wednesday morning after a driver went off the road and crashed into a utility pole. The driver is facing charges after the accident, police say.
(AP) 04-25-12 11:35,, 10,049 of 10,780 precincts - 93 percent

For the first time, we are hearing Robert Hayden's side of the story of what happened the Troy toddler who allegedly died while in his care.

An Albany man was sentenced Wednesday to prison time for making a series of harassing phone calls to city residents, Albany County District Attorney David Soares announced.
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, a week after being named among Time's 100 most influential people, says he won't fuel speculation that he might run for president in 2016.
A ruling is now expected next week on whether to throw out a New York City hotel maid's lawsuit claiming that Dominique Strauss-Kahn sexually attacked her.
After nearly six weeks, the trial of former New York Senator Pedro Espada Jr. is winding down.
After nearly six weeks, the trial of former New York Senator Pedro Espada Jr. is winding down.
A New York woman has admitted faking cancer to con donors out of money and services for her wedding and Caribbean honeymoon.
Gov. Andrew Cuomo and New York legislative leaders gave initial strong support to a proposal by the state University at Binghamton to create a $70 million "smart energy' research facility to spin off products and companies.
In politics, this is the year of big money. It's the first presidential race since two court decisions in 2010 changed the rules.
A cooperating witness says he used a plumber's wrench to bash the head and face of the 86-year-old mother of a Florida hotel heir.
Gov. Andrew Cuomo and New York legislative leaders gave initial strong support to a proposal by the state University at Binghamton to create a $70 million "smart energy' research facility to spin off products and...
Sen. Marco Rubio has outlined his vision of a more muscular American foreign policy as Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney begins the search for a running mate.
Mayor Michael Bloomberg is speaking out against legislation that would require some companies receiving city benefits to pay their employees more.

The 2012 Tulip Queen finalists for Albany's Tulip Festival have been announced Wednesday.
A Brazilian congressman has lost a bid for a court order instructing New York prosecutors to drop a conspiracy case against him and his son.
The mother and sister of a man accused in the 2009 plot to attack New York's subways with suicide bombs have testified in his terror plot.
A former New Jersey lawyer has pleaded guilty to conspiring to commit healthcare fraud in a bizarre case in which he demanded $1 million from the FBI after learning that an accident involved an agency vehicle.
About 120 unionized Westchester County workers have agreed to begin paying part of their health insurance premium.
The Coast Guard is searching for a man who may have fallen off a New York-based tugboat off the Rhode Island coast.
Vice President Joe Biden is calling the foreign policy outlined by presumptive Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney shallow, ill-informed and dangerous.

Businesses in Schoharie County are still trying to get back to business following Hurricane Irene.