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New York City investigators have accused a veteran upstate police officer of trying to arrange a sexual encounter via computer with a person he thought was a 14-year-old girl.

Newswise - Troy, N.Y. - The Center for Future Energy Systems at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute has launched the new Energy Scholars Program to foster research collaborations between undergraduate students and industry.

One of the great stories in New York state in the last 20 years has been its dramatic drop in crime.

Newswise - Troy, N.Y. - Dr. Prabhat Hajela, an experienced academic and administrative leader, has been appointed provost of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, effective July 1, 2012, it has been announced by Rensselaer President Shirley Ann Jackson.

Brian Poole, left, and Mary Hackel, both Army veterans, and fellow members of the color guard from the American Legion Gerald O'Neil Post 1683 march on Third Street during the annual Memorial Day parade on Sunday May 27, 2012 in Rensselaer, NY.

The Saratoga County Sheriff's Office responded to a home in Malta Sunday afternoon, where a 3-year-old girl nearly drowned after falling into the pool at the family's home.

Kathleen Flynn, a resident of Oak Ridge, was named to the Dean's List at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute for both the Fall 2011 and Spring 2012 semesters of her freshman year.

Q: So, looking at the picture, at right, it would seem logical that you could turn left on red from Street #1 on to Street #2 . Am I correct, or am I running the light? This is the fork where Union Street splits off of Route 7, and the intersection of Route 7/Union and Rosendale Road in Niskayuna.

FORT EDWARD, NY The Washington County Sheriff's Office arrested an Argyle man for crashing his vehicle while driving drunk with his child in the car.

RENSSELAER, NY A dedication ceremony was held in Rensselaer on Sunday for the town's new veteran's memorial garden.

This week's selection, a brick Tudor-style home at 19 Elmhurst Ave., Rensselaer, is in Eastland Park.

The historic building at the corner of Fourth Street and Broadway underwent a $6 million renovation last fall under the direction of Columbia Development Cos.

A new ruling by a state Supreme Court could force five counties in the North Country and the Hudson Valley to pay millions of dollars a year to help fund dam operations in the southern Adirondacks.

A career criminal detailed Tuesday how he used a gun to rob several stores last year and how one clerk fought him until they were both bloodied.

The Dunn Memorial Bridge rehabilitation is the first of a number of bridge and interstate road projects that will improve safety and increase travel efficiency in the downtown corridor of the state's Capital, Albany.

A 21st-century bridge has to do more than accommodate trains. Sen. Charles Schumer was back in Albany earlier this month - not that an appearance by a senator who visits each of New York's 62 counties every year is exactly news.

After a joint investigation by the Bennington Police Department and New York police, a Hoosick Falls man is facing burglary charges.

Protestor Joanne Farrell is warned by police to leave the park at the 11pm curfew in Lafayette Park in Albany N.Y. Tuesday May 1, 2012.

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Student Group "Engineers for a Sustainable World" Transformed Used Shipping Container into Living Quarters for Orphaned Children Displaced by Tragic 2010 Port-au-Prince Earthquake Newswise - Troy, N.Y. - Members of the student group Engineers for a Sustainable World at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute have been hard at work transforming a used ... (more)