CRIME & SAFETY
Police arrest 3 in Northern NY drug raid
PLATTSBURGH, N.Y. (WCAX) - Police say a drug investigation in the North Country led to the arrests of three people. Plattsburgh City Police say they determined large amounts of narcotics were being sold from a home on Wood Manor Drive in the town of Plattsburgh. Monday, city police and the...
Contractor arrested, accused of stealing from Guilderland doctor’s practice
Contractor arrested, accused of stealing from Guilderland doctor’s practice. When beloved Dr. Jose David opened his own family medicine practice off Western Avenue in Guilderland in 2019, he said Quent Weigel renovated two floors. A while later when they were ready to do more work, they brought him and...
Northern NY man convicted of manslaughter in deadly hit-and-run
PLATTSBURGH, N.Y. (WCAX) - Jurors have convicted a Northern New York man of manslaughter in a deadly hit-and-run in Plattsburgh. It happened in September. Police say Thomas Lance, 38, of Albany County, ran over his boss, Wayne Haupt, 53, in the parking lot of the Exit 36 Truck Stop while driving Haupt’s pickup truck.
Rabbi: 50+ gravestones knocked over 'attack on all of us,' police investigate vandalism
ROTTERDAM, NY (WRGB) — "I mean just look at it," said Congregation Agudat Achim Rabbi Rafi Spitzer. "It's somebody's father." More than 50 gravestones lay knocked over, and damaged, in a Jewish Cemetery along Mt Stuart Road in Rotterdam. Home to several congregations including Agudat Achim and Beth Israel.
UAlbany student no longer in medically induced coma after crash
The UAlbany student who was hit by a dirt bike late in April on Hudson Avenue is no longer in a medically induced coma. Alexa Kropf, 18, is in critical but stable condition, is no longer on a ventilator, and breathing on her own, according to her father Jim Kropf.
16-Year-Old Sets Fire To Bethlehem High School, Police Say
The Albany County incident happened Tuesday, April 23, at Bethlehem High School. According to Bethlehem Police, the juvenile suspect intentionally started a fire in a school bathroom in the C wing. No students or staff were injured, but the incident forced an evacuation of the building that lasted nearly an...
Albany Co. Deputy Exec Michael McLaughlin Faces DWI Charge
Albany County Deputy Executive Michael McLaughlin was arrested on suspicion of DWI following a traffic stop in the town of Colonie on Wednesday, May 1. New York State Police said McLaughlin was stopped on I-87 at around 11:20 p.m. and refused to provide a sample to determine his blood alcohol content.
Schenectady Police seek cars in 2021 murder investigation
Schenectady Police are asking the public’s help solving a 2021 murder. Police are looking for the owners of cars that are connected to the shooting death of E-Shawn Bradley, 23, of Albany. The cars frequented Hamburg Street in Rotterdam and Stanley Street in Schenectady in August and September 2021,...
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