Albany News

The collision-repair business would seem recession proof. In good economic times and bad, after all, drivers are going to crash cars.

A minivan ran a yellow/red light and crashed into a Capital District Ambulance in Albany this evening.

The CBS6 CRIMETRACKER team has learned there have been more muggings on the streets of Albany, bringing the count in the last two weeks to five.

Troy Woman Crystal Royal, 22, has pleaded guilty to conspiracy to possess and sell narcotics, stemming from a February, 2008 arrest.

By VALERIE BAUMAN Associated Press Writer ALBANY, N.Y. _ A special commission recommended Monday that New York state cap the growth of property taxes at 4 percent a year, among other fiscal reforms.

Updated to clarify lead in glass. GLENS FALLS -- A Queensbury man had part of an ear sheared off early Sunday when an Albany man hit him on the head with a bar glass, police said.

Laptop, cell phone and iPod owners tired of having their devices run out of charge after a few hours have been patiently waiting for the next portable power source to arrive.

Tiny fuel cells, powered by combustible liquids or gasses, have long been touted as the eventual solution. Potentially, they could power a laptop for days between refills.

But fuel cells have perennially remained a year or two away from reaching the market as companies have worked on making them small, cheap and long-lasting, while making sure they don't overheat.

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ALBANY An Albany teen has been identified as the victim of a late night shooting in Arbor Hill.

He was pulled over for making an illegal u-turn in the road, and wound up getting arrested for having a gun in his car.

"I didn't ask him to come in here and rob me. He gets what he gets", says Store Clerk, Larry Defreest.

A UN Security Council session set to debate UNMIK's reconfiguration and the deployment EULEX will be held tomorrow.

AP - Motorists planning to use the Thruway system during their Thanksgiving holiday travels are being advised to leave extra time to reach their destinations because of potentially crowded highways.

Daniel Clinksales, 21, of Albany, was sentenced to 13 years in prison and five years parole.

An Albany man was found guilty late Monday of killing his girlfriend's estranged husband outside a South Pearl Street apartment complex last year.

Kosovo and Serbia will cooperate with an European Union justice and police mission which Brussels hopes will be deployed in Kosovo by early next month, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said on Monday.

ALBANY _ The collapse on Wall Street will cost New York 225,000 jobs and $6.5 billion in tax revenue, state Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli said today.

Albany police say they had to close part of South Pearl Street today because of an underground fire.

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