Washington County News

Four people were arrested and jailed on drug charges Thursday in connection with heroin trafficking in the Glens Falls area after an investigation that began with two heroin overdoses, police said.

Federation Bank President Dale Torpey shows visiting agricultural economics Professor Pei Guo around the Washington square.

Supervisors in Washington County emerged from a closed-door executive session this morning to create a disciplinary committee that will investigate the county's Personnel Department.

A New York City man has received two concurrent life sentences for his role in a shooting in Hagerstown that killed a man and wounded another.

A Washington County junkyard has been slapped with a lawsuit by the Attorney General's office, accused of allowing toxic chemicals to seep into the air and nearby groundwater.

I received a phone call on Thursday from a man who is a former teacher and did not identify himself.

A Granville woman who is on probation for felony assault was jailed last week after she allegedly beat a woman who is 8 months pregnant, police said.

She said she did not want to become the news story, but Tuesday Jaliek Rainwalker's grandmother Barbara Reeley was arrested and charged with burglary.

Jeremy Jones, 33, was killed in a predawn fire Tuesday while his mother and father, who escaped, looked on as rescue crews tried in vain to reach their son.

Authorities said a 33-year-old man has died in a fire at the Washington County home he shared with his parents.

The adoptive grandmother of missing 12-year-old Jaliek Rainwalker is expected to turn herself in to authorities today in connection with a burglary at the boy's home last week, a friend said Monday night.

A 13-year-old boy who slipped and fell about 50 feet into a gorge while hiking in rural Albany County had to be airlifted out Sunday.

A motorcycle accident on Route 67 left one man dead Sunday. Jonathan R. Hunt, 23, of Eagle Bridge was pronounced dead Sunday at Southwestern Vermont Medical Center, after police said Hunt, traveling east, lost ...

One person is dead following a motorcycle accident. It happened last night on the New York, Vermont State line in the town of White Creek.

The impending arrival of a roundabout at the intersection of Route 29 and Route 30 has some people worried and upset, but others say the change is for the better.

The grandmother of Jaliek Rainwalker, a Washington County boy who has been missing since November, has failed in her attempt to win custody of him.

A Rutland couple clearly didn't have holiday spirit at heart when stealing Christmas presents from under the tree of a Putnam, N.Y., family.

Additional criminal charges have been filed on a New Wilmington man arrested earlier this month as an accused child predator.

Tony Jordan, a lawyer from Jackson, Washington County, will run for the 112th Assembly district seat, Republican Assembly Campaign Committee Chairman Adam Kramer announced today.

The parents of a Washington County teen whose alleged drunken driving killed two girls in April have been indicted, but will face no felony charges.