Albany News Updates Provided by News 10
Thursday April 26, 2012 
As he winds down his presidential campaign, Newt Gingrich faces a new challenge: reinventing himself politically yet again.
Vice President Joe Biden says Republican Mitt Romney's views on foreign affairs would return the United States to the policies of former President George W. Bush.
The problem of birds living near some of the nation's busiest airports is coming under renewed scrutiny after two emergency landings in a week.
Friends and fans of Levon Helm are gathering at his Woodstock home to pay homage and say farewell to the legendary singer and drummer for The Band, who died of cancer last week.
A construction crane owner is facing a verdict in the only criminal trial surrounding a 2008 collapse that killed two workers in New York City.
Opening statements are scheduled in the trial of a suburban Buffalo doctor charged with vehicular manslaughter and other counts in the hit-and-run death of a teenager.
A graduate of the State University College at Oswego who made a fortune in the real estate business is donating nearly $5 million to his alma mater.
New York's top court is set to hear the constitutional challenge by state Senate Democrats to the creation of create a 63rd Senate district upstate.
A former lawyer for New York's Department of Civil Service has been sentenced to prison for making more than 200 threatening and racist phone calls to neighbors and others in Albany.
An upstate New York man has been accused of destroying swan eggs at a pond in a suburban Syracuse village.
The brother of Kazakhstan's president says his ex-wife's son stole his $20 million apartment near New York City's Central Park.
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An art collector has filed a lawsuit claiming a photographer broke an ancient terra-cotta sculpture in her Manhattan apartment during a photo shoot.
Rarely seen photographs and home movies of President Franklin D. Roosevelt and Eleanor Roosevelt are included in a new exhibit opening at the FDR Presidential Library and Museum in the Hudson Valley.
The co-founder of a Michigan-based private-equity firm is donating $7 million to a central New York college he graduated from more than 40 years ago.
Police and a passerby helped revive a 10-year-old Long Island girl who lay unconscious on her front lawn after choking on tortilla chips.
A puppy named Byrdie delayed several flights at New York's LaGuardia Airport when she escaped from her crate and frolicked around a busy runway.
The family of a woman accused of moonlighting for 15 years as a multimillion-dollar Manhattan madam has launched a website to help pay her $2 million bail.
A former Syracuse man who was the ringleader in a California-to-New York drug and money laundering operation has been sentenced to 17½ years in prison.
The Buffalo Police Department has launched an internal investigation into how its officers handled a 10-year-old boy's reports of abuse a year before he was found beaten to death in his family's basement.
The Watervliet planning board met Wednesday night to review a proposal to tear down the now-closed Saint Patrick's Church and replace it with commercial property.
Authorities say two people have been shot and wounded at an apartment complex in Elmira.
Authorities say an upstate New York woman charged with killing a man last week is the mother of the victim's child.
Fire crews were on the scene of a Willet Avenue house fire in Schenectady on Thursday morning.
Friends and fans of Levon Helm are gathering at his Woodstock home to pay homage and say farewell to the legendary singer and drummer for The Band, who died of cancer last week.
Two more defendants have pleaded guilty in connection with the fatal stabbing of a former high school basketball star in a Pittsfield fast food restaurant parking lot two years ago.
ALBANY, N.Y. - New York State's third through eighth graders have three days of math testing starting on Wednesday, but the state's education department told principles that one question on the fourth
The National Endowment for the Arts has awarded significantly smaller grants to established PBS programs this year.
Target Corporation announced Thursday that they will open a store in Glenville in October, as one of 20 stores the company plans to open in 2012.
The popular TV judge, "Judge Judy" will be delivering the the undergraduate keynote address at the University at Albany's Commencement Ceremony this year.
A puppy named Byrdie delayed several flights at New York's LaGuardia Airport when she escaped from her crate and frolicked around a busy runway.
Residents of one city street in East Greenbush say they are again not recieving mail, all thanks to what they call a nasty neighborhood dog.
Earlier this week, the Windham-Ashland-Jewett School District alterted sheriffs to an alleged improper relationship between a teacher and student in the district.
New York's top court has rejected the negligence claim by a woman who was attacked by a former state patient two years after he walked away from the Manhattan Psychiatric Center.
The prosecution has begun its summations at the trial of a man accused of plotting to attack New York's subways with suicide bombs.
The Sierra Club says it will block an energy company's plan to export liquefied natural gas from the booming Marcellus Shale formation.
An insurance company says it should not have to pay claims stemming from a Christmas morning fire in Connecticut that killed five people because a contractor renovating the house misrepresented the type and scope of work he...
The man accused of disposing of mercury throughout the Albany Medical Center cafeteria has been arrested by federal authorities Thursday, U.S. Attorneys in New York say.
New York's top court says prosecutors can use wiretap evidence even when they fail to comply with the state law requiring disclosure to their targets within 90 days after the eavesdropping warrant expires.
The National Trust for Historic Preservation has announced $3 million in grants for preservation projects at 40 New York City historic sites.
New York's top court has rejected the negligence claim by a woman who was attacked by a former state patient two years after he walked away from the Manhattan Psychiatric Center.
The Pennsylvania Department of Health says it's received less than 30 complaints from people who feel natural gas drilling has impacted their health.
State police say a man talked himself into jail by requesting a ride from a trooper's car in Columbia County earlier this week.
A terrorism defendant went with two other men to Pakistan in August 2008 with plans to join the Taliban and either force the U.S. out of Afghanistan or die on the battlefield trying, a federal prosecutor said Thursday in...
Price Chopper announced they are making a change to their popular Fuel AdvantEdge promotion.
Steve Wohlen lay on his front lawn in Massachusetts, his skin blue. He was overdosing on heroin.
New York's top court has limited access by advocates to clinical records of the disabled in state care, following federal standards that generally require first getting permission from legal guardians or actively...
The Federal Reserve Bank of New York says it has sold a portion of the toxic mortgage securities it assumed from American International Group as part of the massive taxpayer bailout of the big insurer.
New York State troopers in Fulton and Montgomery Counties took part in Operation Hang Up on Wednesday, targeting motorists using their electronic devices while driving.
New York's top court is weighing a constitutional challenge by state Senate Democrats who claim Republicans improperly used two different formulas to redraw the election map that created a 63rd Senate district upstate.
Rock music fans are mourning the death of Pete Fornatale (FOHR'-nah-tahl), a beloved radio disc jockey who promoted the best new musicians for decades in his easy, free-form style.
A state trooper with the New York State Police has been suspended after he was allegedly involved in promoting prostitution.
State Attorney General Eric Schneiderman is asking a state regulator to take action against Verizon New York over mounting complaints of poor repair service for land-based telephone service that serves millions of New Yorkers.
Three strikes and you're out: That is what Assemblyman Jim Tedisco is requesting the state's policy to be for drunk driving.
The Saratoga County Sheriff's Office has arrested a man they say broke into Mr. Bill's Drive In in the town of Moreau on Wednesday night.
A New York state trooper has been suspended without pay amid allegations he organized parties that involved prostitution while off duty.
One of Bruce Springsteen's much-adored aunts has died at the age of 92.
A former federal Transportation Security Administration officer has pleaded guilty to bribery and extortion charges related to accepting cash in exchange for allowing what she believed was painkiller pills to pass through an...
State Attorney General Eric Schneiderman is asking a state regulator to take action against Verizon New York over mounting complaints of poor repair service for land-based telephone service that serves millions of New...
Former New York state Sen. Carl Kruger has received a seven-year prison sentence after pleading guilty in an influence peddling case.
A conservative-leaning independent political group is set to spend $6.1 million on a new television ad targeting President Barack Obama in eight states.
District Attorney P. David Soares announced today that the conviction of Akiva Daniel Abraham has been affirmed by the New York State Supreme Court Appellate Division.
The House is set to vote on a bill Friday that, if passed, will double the interest rates of federally subsidized Stafford loans.
Police are searching for two suspects this evening after shots were fired from a car on Thornton Street.
Fire officials in Pittsfield, Mass., responded to a call at 7:04 p.m. at 141 Wendall Avenue in the city.
Trooper Jeremy C.Smith, 34, and Trooper Michael L. Petritz, 33, were suspended without pay on April 26, 2012, in connection with a State Police administrative investigation.
