East Greenbush News

Firefighters extinguish flames after a light tower touched powerlines on Route 4 in East Greenbush, electrocuting a highway worker and igniting a fire.

NEWS10 is told a man had been killed from being electrocuted while working in East Greenbush Friday morning.

An employee of the Office of the Medicaid Inspector General was arrested for filing false paperwork.

Power is back on for more than 8,100 customers in Rensselaer County who lost power late Monday night, according to National Grid .

Monday was the annual "Abate" protest, when roughly 250 motorcyclists converged on the Capitol to argue against laws mandating they wear helmets when they ride.

The outages were centered in East Greenbush, where the utility was reporting that most of the town - some 6,930 customers - were in the dark.

Driver Rudy Jahn stands with EMTs Carolyn Fleming and Paul Glasser, who are holding the drug Naloxone hydrochloride, at the Hoags Corners ambulance garage Friday, May 18, 2012 in East Nassau, N.Y. The Hoags Corners EMTs are part of a pilot program that allows EMTs to administer a drug that can reverse an opioid overdose.

EAST GREENBUSH, NY. "It's a product I developed for hunting," Richie Birch says as he strapped his invention to a tree.

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The New York Commission on Judicial Conduct has recommended removing a Rensselaer County town justice from the bench for her involvement in two ticket-fixing cases.

After more than a month of surveillance, police busted two alleged small-scale drug rings Monday night and Tuesday morning, resulting in seven arrests.

Former Albany police Officer Paul Pierce , who took the stand while on trial in Rensselaer County last month and denied he abused a 16-year-old boy, has now admitted in another court that he abused the teen.

A former DARE officer and former Albany police officer pleaded guilty Thursday to sexual abusing a minor, Albany County District Attorney David Soares says.

The Albany County District Attorney David Soares says Paul Pierce, 59, of East Greenbush, pleaded guilty to engaging in sexual acts with a minor under the age of 17 in Albany between June and September of 2010.

RPI senior Tammy Robbin of South Windsor, CT test fires a Mini Marshmallow Launcher that she and 11 other engineering students made through a project they implemented to build a manufacturing system to produce and assemble 4000 launchers, in RPI's Manufacturing Innovation Learning Lab, on Wednesday May 2, 2012 in Troy, NY.