Rensselaer County News

Former Senate Majority Leader Joseph Bruno stands on the steps at the Capitol in Albany last June.

Rehab center has new leader - Northeast Center for Special Care, a rehabilitation facility in Lake Katrine, recently named Craig Wittman of Rensselaer County its new administrator.

Never ones to blow a good photo opp, county clerks as well as a handful of mostly GOP senators came out, not to applaud Gov.

A Rensselaer County man who shot a .22-caliber pistol inside his trailer while he was smoking pot told a judge he thought the bullets were too small to go into a neighboring trailer.

A RENSSELAER COUNTY RESIDENT HAS DIED FROM H1N1, BRINGING THE TOTAL NUMBER OF CAPITAL REGION RESIDENTS TO DIE FROM SWINE FLU TO 4. A SPOKEMAN FOR THE COUNTY SAYS HE CANNOT RELEASE THE PERSON's NAME, BUT ADDS IT DOES NOT APPEAR THE VICTIM HAD ANY PRE-EXISTING MEDICAL CONDITIONS.

The next New York state budget would force all drivers to replace their license plates this spring for a $25 fee, unless county officials from across the state win out in their opposition to the plan.

Shelby Harrison retraces the moments before a stray cat bit her shin last weekend, possibly giving her rabies.

A defiant Adrian Thomas was sentenced this morning to 25 years to life in prison for killing his 4-month-old son.

The judge presiding at former New York Senate leader Joseph Bruno's corruption trial is threatening unnamed sanctions if Bruno again questions any of the judge's rulings in front of the jury.

The Rensselaer County Sheriff's Office arrested two people in an investigation into abuse of Troy Housing Authority property.

Detail of a newspaper containing an advertisement from Samuel Wilson and his brother, from 1809, to be hung in the new Uncle Sam exhibit at the Rensselaer County more... Detail of a painting by George Gray, circa 1937, depicting Uncle Sam Wilson as a meat packer, to be part of an Uncle Sam exhibit at the Rensselaer County Historical more... Detail ...

A JUDGE HAS ORDERED THE RELEASE OF A TROY MURDER SUSPECT BECAUSE PROSECUTORS ELECTED NOT MOVE FORWARD WITH A PRELIMINARY HEARING.

FOUR COUNTS HAVE BEEN ADDED TO THE CRIMINAL INDICTMENT AGAINST A 30-YEAR-OLD MAN ACCUSED IN A PLOT TO KIDANP AND KILL FORMER RENSSELAER COUNTY D.A. TRISH DE ANGELIS.

The latest rebuilt McDonald's to be unveiled in Upstate New York debuted today. The fast-food restaurant, located at 66 Main Street in this Rensselaer County village, is owned by John Reeher who had the original building torn down and replaced with a new structure trhat includes a drive-through. Numerous McDonald's franchises are being remodeled or ...

Documents presented at the corruption trial of the former New York Senate majority leader show he approached then-Gov. George Pataki and a state college on behalf of a technology company that employed him part time.

He was arrested last Friday and charged with an October murder in Troy. Now 23-year-old Tyrone Chaires is out of jail.

Rensselaer County Clerk Frank Merola says he sent a letter to Attorney General Andrew Cuomo last week asking whether it is legal at the moment for the state to require New Yorkers to pay for new license plates.

Former state Senate leader Joseph Bruno was paid thousands of dollars for steering business to a stock brokerage that wrote the checks to Bruno's Business Consultants Inc., which prosecutors said at his corruption trial was never legally incorporated.

Colonie Police say they've arrested a woman in connection with a Sept. 5th church burglary, and that the woman has a history of scamming local churches.

ALBANY - The corruption trial of former Senate Republican Leader Joseph Bruno started Monday, with prosecutors charging that Bruno purposely sought to enrich himself at the expense of the public.