Rensselaer County News

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.

He was the most powerful Republican in the state Legislature for more than a decade.

Troy Detectives arrested Tyrone Chaires, 23, of 491 2nd St 2nd flr, Troy for the shooting death of Jimmy Chapman two weeks ago.

Police have arrested the person they believe shot a man to death earlier this month.

Troy Police arrested a Troy man in connection with the shooting death of Jimmy Chapman at Harrison St.

Authorities say one person has died and two others are hospitalized after a car collided with another vehicle while fleeing police in a Rensselaer County town.

One person is dead and two others are injured after a head-on crash that kept a busy Rensselaer County road closed for most of the night.

More developments in the Battle of the Ballot Box in Rensselaer County. A 24-year-old Schenectady man, who admits to having a long criminal record, says he discovered only last week that he is a candidate for the Rensselaer County Legislature on the Working Families Party line.

City Democrats said Monday they have asked a special prosecutor to investigate city Public Works Commissioner Robert Mirch's role in putting a candidate for Rensselaer County Legislature on the ballot who didn't know he was running.

Rensselaer County Public Defender Jerome Frost says he was somewhat surprised Friday after the jury returned a guilty verdict in the murder case against Adrian Thomas, the Troy prosecutors claimed murdered his 4-month-old son by throwing the boy down onto a mattress on three separate occasions last September.

Jurors resumed deliberations today as they try to decide whether to convict Adrian Thomas for the killing of his 4-month-old son.

Supporters of Darlene Miller, the ousted director of the Castleton Public Library , NY, aren't letting up in their efforts to get her reinstated, citing major recognition won by the library--a runner-up in LJ 's Best Small Library last year and a five-star rating from LJ --and a questionable process behind her dismissal.