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New York State Police are announcing the arrest of two individuals following a traffic stop at the intersection of State Route 5 and Newport Road in Schuyler.

A head on crash on a New York State Thruway entrance lane Thursday left five people injured, and at least two of them with life-threatening injuries, according to State Police.

Four months after they were married at St. Mary's Church in Amsterdam, Erin and Shane McGowan were remembered there by hundreds of friends and relatives grieving their death in a limousine crash that killed 20 people in upstate New York.

A limousine carrying 18 people crashed over the weekend in upstate New York, killing all the occupants and two pedestrians, making it among the nation's deadliest ground-traffic accidents. A look at some others:

The Latest on a crash in upstate New York that killed two pedestrians and 18 occupants of a limousine

A new five-mile section of the Erie Canalway Trail is opening in the Mohawk Valley.

Authorities say two members of an upstate New York sheriff's office have been put on paid administrative leave for failing to report an off-duty hit-and-run accident one of them was involved in.

Police in upstate New York say an 8-year-old boy has been hospitalized after being mauled by a family dog.

A series of concerts along the Erie Canal to mark its 200th anniversary is continuing.

The 200th anniversary of the Erie Canal's groundbreaking will be marked next month with a musical celebration along the waterway.