Latham News

Visit a Capital Region toy department and it probably won't be long before you hear some version of this question: "Do you have any of those Zhu Zhu Pets?" The query might just come from a naive parent, someone who doesn't realize the poor salesperson has already heard the question a dozen times, perhaps, on this day alone.

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

A refrigerated truck delivered 12 pallets of food to the Regional Food Bank of Northeastern New York Monday morning, and when it was unloaded, the food bank got to keep the truck.

Today, I went to visit Gilda's Club, named for Gilda Radner, who died from ovarian cancer.

November 22, 2009 EXPANDED REPORTING; Pg. 23 457 words INSURANCE INFORMATION INSTITUTE; I.I.I. Finds NY's No-Fault Claims Costs Are Rising New York's auto insurers saw their typical no-fault payment for the medical care of accident victims rise by 56 percent to $8,748 per claim in the second quarter of 2009.

CALLED "MANCAVE" CASE. 48-YEAR-OLD GARY PIVODA OF LATHAM AND 50-YEAR-OLD LOUIS MARCIANO OR RENSSELAER ADMIT TO SLEEPING, WATCHING TV AND DOING DRUGS, ALL ON THE TAXPAYER'S DIME.

The New York Lottery announced two more Capital Region millionaire winners today.

The National Labor Relations Board has scheduled a hearing on allegations that the Latham hotel owned by Jim Morrell fired employees for trying to form a union.

A Latham, New York Hotel Owner Facing National Labor Relations Board Action for Allegedly Terminating Three Employees for Trying to Organize Union Nov.

The owner of a Latham hotel is facing a complaint from the National Labor Relations Board that he illegally fired three employees for seeking to organize a union.

Rochester-based chain DiBella's Old Fashioned Submarines plans to build its first sub shop in the Albany area and is looking for several other locations in the region.

It may be a simple case of anthropomorphizing, but I really believe our GPS deliberately led us astray to teach us a lesson.

Continental Airlines today joins Star Alliance, giving members of its OnePass frequent flier program the opportunity to earn miles on flights operated by United Airlines, US Airways and Air Canada, among others.

The case of the "man cave" could soon be over. Just days after a 22-count indictment accused two state workers of drug use, sleeping on the job and all-night parties at work, the men have been offered a plea deal carrying a year behind bars for one of the men -- and no jail time for the other, the Times Union has learned.

A Latham woman working for an escort service was arrested by police as part of a prostitution ring, city police said.

The powerful New York State United Teachers union is spending $200,000 on an advertising campaign attacking Gov.

Two old private schools that had considered becoming one will not consolidate, board leaders from both institutions decided late Tuesday.

A flu clinic scheduled to be held today at Target in Latham has been canceled. CBS 6 reported Saturday morning that the flu clinic would run from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday afternoon at the Target on Troy-Schenectady Road, but the clinic has been canceled after a major vaccine shortage, according to Target Spokesperson Josh Thomas.

The state attorney general has indicted two state workers who were suspended from their jobs earlier this year after their so-called "man cave" was discovered at a parking garage at the Empire State Plaza.