Albany News Updates Provided by News 10
Friday June 08, 2012 

Family and friends gathered at a Fort Edward baseball field to remember a 13-year-old boy who was fatally shot and killed this week.

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The tiny Vermont school district in Woodford has received a $108,000 windfall from the federal government as an impact payment for the national forest land in the community.

Five Vermont airports from Bennington to Lyndonville are going to be receiving a total of $1.2 million for improvement projects
New York conservation officials are looking for some help sampling the quality of water in streams and rivers in the Hudson River watershed.
An environmental group says the state has paid out $1 billion in tax credits to developers in cleaning up and redeveloping 114 brownfield sites across New York over the past decade.

The Americade motorcycle rally at Lake George is kicking into high gear and motorists are being cautioned to be alert for bikers on the Thruway.
Two Massachusetts police officers are being laid to rest.
A plan to bring more natural water level fluctuations to Lake Ontario has drawn protests from some lakeshore residents who say it would speed erosion and increase the risk of flooding. But scientists say it will rebuild beaches and dunes as well as wetlands.

A Watervliet man was arrested on Thursday night for stealing copper from an abandoned building in Albany.

A Fort Edward woman is accused of using daycare services she was not entitled to.
A midlevel New York court says crime victims can make civil claims under the state's "Son of Sam Law" for the criminal's public pensions.

Albany detectives arrested a Troy man on Thursday for attempting to shoot another man in March.

I'll Have Another's bid for a Triple Crown ended with the shocking news that the colt was out of the Belmont Stakes due to a swollen left front tendon.

A Cohoes man turned himself into police on Thursday night for robbing an Albany Mobil Mart.

A New York State Office of Children and Family Services employee is accused of selling personal information to an outside person.

A Troy man who pleaded guilty to forcible rape will be sentenced on Friday.

Mohawk Ambulance Services celebrated a new station opening in Glenville on Friday.
Cohoes Mayor John McDonald joins other mayors across the country to support the Environmental Protection Agency's Mercury and Air Toxics Standards.

The City of Troy's School 14 held a patriotic Flag Day Ceremony on Friday morning.

Hundreds of Girls Scouts in the Capital Region will visit Washington DC on Friday for the organizations 100
th anniversary.

A motorcyclist died after colliding with a motor vehicle on Friday in Bennington.

A man faces life behind bars after he went door-to-door in a Cohoes apartment building before killing one man in December.
The men accused of duct taping a dog and leaving him in the cold to die will face trial.
A Scotia woman is accused of driving drunk on the Thruway in Montgomery County.
Plenty of people in Saratoga were disappointed by word that I'll Have Another is out of the Belmont Stakes.
A judge in Illinois has ruled a woman not guilty by reason of insanity in the November 2010 slashing death of her 4-year-old daughter.

The men accused of duct taping a dog and leaving him in the cold to die will face trial.

It happened at a home on Irving Road, off Route 32, in Greenville.
Shateek Lanier had originally been charged with gang assault.
A Scotia woman is accused of driving drunk on the Thruway in Montgomery County.
A portion of Albany's Washington Avenue will be closed for several hours Friday night after a serious crash near Winthrop Avenue, police said.