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Spring on Hold as Nearly a Foot of Snow Expected in Northeast

ALBANY, N.Y. -- Winter isn't done with some areas of the Northeast just yet. A springtime storm could bring nearly a foot of snow to areas of northern Pennsylvania and upstate New York. The National Weather Service says some communities in Pennsylvania's Pocono Mountains can expect more than 11 inches by the time the...

Mayor: 1 Officer Shot, 3 Hurt in NY; Gunman Dead

POUGHKEEPSIE, N.Y. -- Authorities say a police officer was shot, three others were wounded and the gunman killed in a shootout near a train station in New York's Hudson Valley. Poughkeepsie Mayor John Tkazyik tells the Poughkeepsie Journal the wounded officers were taken to a hospital. Greg Zurawik, a spokesman for St....

New York Budget: The 5 Most Painful Cuts

New Yorkers, prepare for a fresh round of belt-tightening. On Monday, Gov. Andrew Cuomo derided the state's budget system as "a sham," saying that a tangle of loopholes and arcane regulations prevented meaningful reductions in spending. He added that the secretive budget process and influence of special interests reminded...

Two Women, One Social Security Number, Uh-Oh

(June 26) -- It could be called A Tale of Two Alyssa Greens. Both Alyssa Green of Albany, N.Y., and Alyssa Green of Minneapolis are 21-year-old mothers who aspire to earn college degrees. The women were even born on the same date -- July 13, 1988. Unfortunately for both Alyssas, they also shared the same Social Security...

The New SuperFriends: Albany DA Teams Up With George Mitchell's Investigation

As we sit and patiently wait for the results of George Mitchell's investigation -- which may or may not yield some blockbuster information -- we've been learning far more from reporters breaking stories about the Albany District Attorney's investigations of Signature Pharmacy, your one stop shop for assumed baseball...

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Obama Visits Albany Science Center With Governor Cuomo (PHOTOS)

US President Barack Obama smiles with New York Governor Andrew Cuomo (R) during a tour of the of Nanoscale Science and Engineering's (CNSE) Albany NanoTech Complex at the State University of New York May 8, 2012 in Albany, NY.

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New York State Weighs Transgender Anti-Discrimination Bill

A year after lawmakers legalized gay marriage, the next civil rights debate taking shape in Albany is discrimination against transgender New Yorkers who say they face it in employment and housing and when they're in public all because they stray from what's accepted as male and female norms in dress and behavior.

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05/31/12 Legislative Affairs Committee says general session was... Source: NBC - WALB News 10 - Albany GA The Albany Area Chamber of Commerce Legislative Affairs Committee says this year's General Assembly session was a success.
05/31/12 Former Albany resident dies after gunman opens fire in... Source: FOX - WFXL 31 - Albany GA According to the Seattle Times , former Albany resident Kimberly Layfield died in after a man opened fire in a Seattle coffee shop.
05/31/12 Albany Occupy farmers pack courthouse in trespassing... Source: The Mercury News - San Jose CA Occupy the Farm supporters packed an Alameda County courtroom Thursday for arguments in a University of California lawsuit seeking to ban them from the Gill Tract in Albany, where they camped and farmed for three weeks this spring before being removed by police.
05/31/12 Bicyclists say UAlbany, state campus paths connect Source: Capital Region at the Crossroads - Times Union - Albany NY In Monday's column, reader Charles Healy of Albany asked about the possibility of connecting the loop roads for the University at Albany and the Harriman Office Campus.
05/31/12 Study Ties Albany's Distance From Voters to Its... Source: City Room - The New York Times It took no less than the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard to demonstrate that out of sight is, indeed, out of mind.