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Local News Video on Demand News Links NewsChannel 13 In-Depth Waste Watchers Health Education Science/Technology The Scoop Forum 13 Blogs Send a News Tip News Team Lottery Results Traffic Conditions Sign Up for Text Alerts State police responded to a burglary at the Sunoco on Route 7 over the weekend.

The former Cambridge police chief in prison on a child pornography conviction was assigned Level 1 sex offender status during a hearing last Wednesday in Rensselaer County Court, according to a report in the Albany Times Union.

PITTSTOWN, NY. Nearly four months after a Pittstown man was arrested and charged with felony possession of child porn he still hasn't been to trial.

The Greenfield GOP endorsement gave McDonald 59%, or 8,057 out of a possible 13,576 weighted votes.

A Rensselaer County man was electrocuted Friday morning while doing work on a new roundabout in East Greenbush.

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When a person overdoses on drugs, time is of the essence for emergency responders.

Cohoes Memorial Day Parade, 6:45 p.m., reading President Abraham's Gettysburg Address, West End Park on Columbia Street; parade begins at 7 p.m. from the park, east along Columbia Street and then north along Remsen Street to Canal Square and finish at the review stand.

The Rensselaer County Law Enforcement Association invites the public to attend a memorial ceremony of past fallen Rensselaer County Law Enforcement Association Members.

A former Washington County town police chief whose 50-year prison term for rape was thrown out by a higher court because of prosecutorial misconduct is now a Level 1 sex offender.

In the face of last week's decisive defeat of a proposed budget for 2012-13 that would have raised the tax levy by nearly 8 percent, members of the Fonda-Fultonville Central School District Board of Education drafted a new plan that would increase the levy by 3.5 percent and still retain kindergarten and most interscholastic sports.

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 number of houses sold in an 11-county area including the Capital Region climbed 24 percent in April from year-earlier levels and is running 17 percent ahead of 2011's rate so far this year, the Greater Capital Association of Realtors reported Tuesday morning.

Power is back on for more than 8,100 customers in Rensselaer County who lost power late Monday night, according to National Grid.

Naloxone is a drug paramedics and other advanced life support providers have been using for some time.

SAGE Computer is hosting a seminar of threats to business data and GenNext is focusing on building "the tech region of tomorrow." The Referrals Unlimited Chapter of Business Network International, 7 a.m. at the Clarion Hotel/Century House, 977 New Loudon Road in Latham.

The Troy Police Department and the Rensselaer County DA's office held a gun buyback program on Saturday.

Hundreds of walkers joined the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation's Great Strides Walk. Each step the walkers took raised money to help find a cure for the disease that affects the lungs and digestive system.

Driver Rudy Jahn stands with EMTs Carolyn Fleming and Paul Glasser, who are holding the drug Naloxone hydrochloride, at the Hoags Corners ambulance garage Friday, May 18, 2012 in East Nassau, N.Y. The Hoags Corners EMTs are part of a pilot program that allows EMTs to administer a drug that can reverse an opioid overdose.

Police say Rodney Cooper applied crushed stone to an elderly woman's driveway in Stephentown then demanded payment for it.