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Police are investigating the cause of a house fire in the Adirondacks that left one man dead and another man hospitalized with burns.

Ben Stiller's seven-part TV series about the Dannemora prison escape is premiering Sunday on Showtime.

The law enforcement officer who led the effort to find two murderers who escaped from a maximum-security New York state prison in 2015 has written a book about his experience.

According to Paul Buckley from the City of Utica the Showtime series scouts are looking for people from the Mohawk Valley to be background performers for some of the scenes. The series itself will be shot in Dannemora.

Federal authorities say 10 people, one of them a state prison guard, have been charged in connection with a heroin trafficking operation in northern New York.

Lifetime is airing a movie about Joyce Mitchell, the prison guard arrested after assisting the escape of two inmates at the Dannemora Prison in June of 2015.

David Sweat, one of two men who escaped from a maximum-security prison in Northern New York last June, was sentenced to additional jail time today.

The woman who helped two convicted killers escape from a northern New York prison will spend at least two years behind bars.

David Sweat has been arraigned on three felony counts in connection with his escape from a maximum-security state prison. The 35-year-old Sweat made a brief appearance August 20 in Clinton County Court. Sweat did not enter a plea to two counts of escape and one count of promoting prison contraband...

PLATTSBURGH, N.Y. (AP) — A New York prison employee has pleaded guilty to helping two killers escape last month.