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The Make-a-Wish Foundation of Northeast New York has kicked off its annual Adopt-an-Angel campaign.

There are 110 bridges across the state -- including more than a dozen in the Capital Region -- that were ranked by the state as less safe than the Champlain Bridge near Crown Point that engineers only recently found to be on the verge of collapse.

Bridge at Crown Point declared unrepairable, will be demolished as soon as possible.

New York residents talk with a television news reporter about the Lake Champlain Bridge closing at a Crown Point public rally Oct.

There likely won't be a temporary bridge across Lake Champlain, but a temporary ferry service is scheduled to launch Monday.

A bridge is a lifeline. Four thousand cars a day cross the Champlain Bridge that connects Crown Point on the New York side with Addison, Vt.

Todd Hoffman, left, New York State Department of Transportation regional structural engineer, and John Zicconi, Vermont Department of Transportation spokesman, address the media after closing the Lake Champlain Bridge in Crown Point.

A key bridge across southern Lake Champlain from Addison to Crown Point, N.Y., will likely be closed for months, a Vermont official said Monday.

The Champlain Bridge connecting New York and Vermont closed indefinitely Friday afternoon.

File photo of DOT bridge inspections from 2007 State officials abruptly closed the Crown Point bridge across Lake Champlain this afternoon, citing dangerous deterioration to the cement piers supporting the structure.

A woman who tripped on a Green Mountain Community Network bus is now suing the public transportation group.

PHISH Joy Phish's first studio album since its 2004 breakup suggests that what reunited the jam-band maestros after a five-year hiatus wasn't just unbridled passion, but a renewed sense of purpose in both their music and their personal lives.

Whereas everyone accepts that Soho isn't really a neighborhood anymore, just a well-groomed mall for cologned tourists, Nolita is still wavering between scruffiness and snobbery.

According to police, Matthew J. Dugan, 34, was exiting the ferryboat from Staten Island with his girlfriend at about 1:30 a.m. As they headed toward the lower level of the terminal, a dispute started between him and three other individuals.

Duxbury, Vt. -- After 17 years together, Bill Slimback and Bob Sullivan couldn't wait another minute to get married.

Authorities in upstate New York say a rookie police officer making a routine traffic stop captured a man wanted in the Philadelphia murder of a city worker.

A Pennsylvania murder suspect was arrested Tuesday on his way to Vermont. Jamaal Simmons, 26, was taken into custody during a routine traffic stop in on Route 4 in Whitehall, N.Y., just west of the Vermont state border.

After 17 years together, Bill Slimback and Bob Sullivan couldn't wait another minute to get married.

It's the largest single item among the thousands of artifacts in the New York State Museum's collection -- and it floats.

State officials in Vermont and New York said sewage that wound up in the Mettawee River in Granville, N.Y., should not make it into Vermont.