Cohoes

Prosecutors say Slivienski set up the killing because Dunia and friends had robbed Slivienski of marijuana during two previous arranged drug buys.

The mayor of a small Hudson River city has been arrested on federal charges accusing him of using thousands of dollars in campaign funds for vacations, home repairs and other personal uses.

Federal prosecutors say a 37-year-old upstate New York man has been sentenced to 35 years in prison for texting sexual messages to out-of-state underage girls and distributing child pornography.

Authorities say a mayor accused of choking his wife and daughter last year allegedly grabbed an 18-year-old man during an incident at the politician's upstate New York home.

An upstate New York man has been arraigned on murder charges in the shooting death of a teenager whose family fled their war-torn African homeland for a better life in the U.S.

The mother of an immigrant African teenager found slain along an Albany-area bicycle path last week says her family fled their war-torn homeland for the United States because it offered security and safety.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo and other top New York state Democrats have weighed in on domestic abuse allegations leveled at the mayor of an upstate city, saying the fellow Democrat must resign from office.

Work is set to begin on a nearly $11 million project to improve pedestrian safety along a stretch of an Albany-area highway where a 16-year-old girl was struck and killed two years ago.

A scrap yard fire that's triggering explosions and producing thick, black smoke has forced the closure of a stretch of Interstate 787 near Albany.

Officials say an inferno that destroyed or damaged nearly two dozen buildings in a city in upstate New York was sparked by an amateur bladesmith.