Colonie News

The discount shoe store, which once was known as Dexter Shoes, has left its log cabin on Route 9 next to the entrance ramp to new Route 7 in LathamA for the Target Plaza, formerly Northway Mall, on Central Avenue at the Northway in Colonie.

Police say prostitution busts at two Colonie beauty salons is linked to Chinese organized crime and reached into western Massachusetts and all the way down into New York City.

Students at Colonie Central High School and Sand Creek Middle School were dismissed early today because of a power outage.... Subscribers must LOG-IN to read this full story.

A HALF DOZEN PEOPLE HAVE BEEN ARRESTED FOR ALLEGEDLY RUNNING AN ILLEGAL MASSAGE PARLOR IN COLONIE.

Police in Albany County arrested six people Tuesday during a sting operation investigating illegal massage parlors in the Capital Region.

The Bronze Star for Valor awarded to Neil Gray for his actions behind enemy lines as an OSS operative during World War II at a ceremony at the Zaloga VFW Post in more... Brigadier General Michael Swezey ,left, of the NY Army National Guard stands with Neil Gray as Gray receives the Bronze Star for Valor for his actions behind enemy lines more...

Republican Town Board candidate Dan Dustin claimed the third open seat on the Colonie Town Board after absentee ballots were opened Thursday, Nov.

The body of Army Staff Sgt. Amy Seyboth-Tirador, a native of Colonie, has returned to the Capital Region.

The body of Colonie native Staff Sergeant Amy Seyboth Tirador arrived Friday morning at Albany International Airport.

A former Albany detective who was a key witness in the city's "ghost ticket" investigation earlier this year has pleaded guilty to federal charges of child pornography possession.

The days got a little bit longer this year for South Colonie Central School District kindergarteners as the district moved to a full-day kindergarten program.

Close to two hundred people gathered at the veterans memorial in Colonie Wednesday night to offer support and sympathy to the family of an Army Staff Sargeany who has been working in Iraq an interrogator and translator - a woman whose death, according to her father, was a homicide.

Someone else will have to play Taps. Staff Sgt. Amy Seyboth Tirador was remembered Friday as a determined soldier who was passionate about her job, family and hometown.

Most incumbent mayors and town supervisors in the Capital Region fought off challenges from opponents in Tuesday's elections.

The polls are open for Election Day 2009. Many races across the Capitol Region are getting a lot of attention today.

Gerard Seyboth of Colonie says his daughter's most recent assignment in Iraq made her "a high profile target", pointing out she worked in intelligence gathering as an Arabic-speaking interrogator and translator.

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A 10-year veteran of the U.S. Army on Wednesday became the first woman from the Capital Region to die in Operation Iraqi Freedom, according to her family.

The South Colonie Central School District community is mourning the death of 1998 Colonie Central High School graduate Amy Seyboth Tirador who was reported to have died from non-combat related injuries in Iraq on Wednesday, Nov.

As the numbers started to come in one by one at 9 p.m. on Tuesday, Nov. 3, Colonie Democrats were climbing a ladder to write the results in each district on poster board-sized papers so that everyone at the Colonie Democrats headquarters, on Wolf Road, could see.