Hudson Falls News

Chuck Biedka can be reached via e-mail or at 724-226-4711. Police want to know why a geologist arrested with a homemade bomb in New York state on Saturday had a police uniform in the Exton Lake Road house he was renting in Washington Township.

The investigation into an upstate New York man accused of making threats against a school and federal agents, and who police said they found in possession of a homemade bomb, leads to Westmoreland County.

An unspecified number of pyrotechnic devices were discovered Saturday at the Washington Township home of a New York man who is accused of carrying a homemade bomb and threatening to blow up a school, authorities said Sunday.

Share + Jul 5, 2009 1:06 pm US/Eastern HUDSON FALLS, N.Y. Police said a northeastern New York man upset about personal problems was found carrying a homemade bomb after witnesses said he made comments about blowing up a school.

A man was found to be carrying a homemade bomb early Saturday morning after allegedly making threats to blow up a school, police said.

Rich Sleicher, the owner of a motorcycle dealership in Brunswick, asks an important question this week: "What does it take to get a guy arrested?" In May, a customer walked into Troy City Garage on Hoosick Avenue.

Two women were arrested in a shopping mall parking lot over the weekend after getting caught shoplifting over $800 worth of merchandise while with their children.

Local health officials are launching a grass-roots, multilingual effort to warn residents about contamination in Hudson River fish.

A Rotterdam man has been sentenced in federal court to over 7 years in prison and a 15 years of supervised release after being convicted of distributing child pornography.

Beatty, a security guard at Glens Falls Hospital, was arrested Wednesday and arraigned before the Town of Kingsbury Justice Court.

A water-skiing show to be performed by the Camp Mohawk Valley Ski School on June 6 has been cancelled because of a warning issued by the state Department of Health, according to Mechanicville Mayor Anthony Sylvester.

Rescue crews in a boat launched from the Moreau side of the Hudson River pulled a stranded kayaker from fast-moving waist-deep water Friday afternoon.

A convicted sex offender has been charged with not correctly reporting his address.

The problem, Jones said, is getting the money he needs for his company, JonesCAM Micro-Video Camera Systems, amid the difficult economy and tight credit market.

A Warren County woman has been arrested after the county Sheriff's Office conducted a lengthy investigation into drug activity at her home and executed a search warrant at her home last week.

Two lawsuits filed, and there could be more coming. That's the word today from state Attorney General Andrew Cuomo, on his ongoing nationwide investigation into the debt settlement industry.

An upstate New York man with seven drunken-driving convictions since 1988 has been charged with an eighth offense in Vermont.

The fifth century since Henry Hudson made a voyage up the river that bears his name, changing New York forever, best begins with this thought: Imagine the upper part of that river, restored to a promise it hasn't had in generations.

Attorney General Andrew Cuomo is filing suit against two debt settlement companies-- accusing them of making millions of dollars off the backs of New Yorkers-- and he's investigating 12 others.

A 38-year-old New York woman who was hit by a St. Bernard Parish dump truck earlier this week while walking across a major roadway died at University Hospital Friday morning, a day after her birthday.