NEW YORK (AP - MODIFIED) — New York can continue to enforce laws banning firearms in sensitive locations and require that handgun owners be of “good moral character,” a federal appeals court ruled Friday in its first broad review of a host of new gun rules passed in the state after a landmark Supreme Court
WASHINGTON — Anyone who has suspected that there are more women than men where they live, or vice versa, will find fodder for their suspicions in new data from the U.S. Census Bureau. Whether it refutes or confirms their suspicions likely depends on where they live. Women outnumber men in the largest urban counties east
SCHENECTADY - Schenectady County Public Health Services is hosting a free Naloxone or Narcan, training and information session in Schenectady Thursday, Dec. 21 from 6 p.m. to 7 p.m. The session will be held at the Hon. Karen B. Johnson (Central) Library, 99 Clinton St., in the McChesney Room. According to Schenectady County, there has
SALT LAKE CITY — A new missionary training center will be opened in Bangkok, Thailand, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints announced on Wednesday. The training center will accommodate missionaries from southeast Asia and other regions, according to a church news release. It will be an annex of the complex surrounding the Bangkok
SCHENECTADY — A Thursday morning fire in the Mont Pleasant neighborhood of Schenectady displaced multiple families and injured two people, including one firefighter, city Fire Chief Don Mareno said. Mareno described the injuries to the firefighter and one resident as minor and non-life-threatening. The fire was reported shortly before 4:30 a.m. at 1223 8th Ave., Mareno
NEWPORT NEWS, Va. — The mother of a 6-year-old who shot his teacher in Virginia was sentenced Friday to two years in prison for felony child neglect, nearly a year after her son used her gun to critically wound the educator. Friday's sentencing was the second time Deja Taylor was held to account for the
SCHENECTADY - Schenectady Central School District announced this year’s teacher of the year as Hamilton Elementary School second grade teacher Colleen Keough. Keough’s friends and family, school administration and members of the media surprised Keough and her 25 students in their classroom Friday morning during a pajama party the class was having. “I’m just very
ROCHESTER, N.Y. (AP) — A man who climbed onto a campaign event platform in upstate New York last year and accosted Republican gubernatorial candidate Lee Zeldin received three years probation Thursday. David Jakubonis approached the then-U.S. representative while carrying a keychain with two sharp points at a campaign rally near Rochester, New York in July
LONDON — Prince Harry scored the biggest win yet in his legal war against British tabloids on Friday when London's High Court ruled he had been a victim of phone hacking and other unlawful acts by Mirror Group journalists with the knowledge of their editors. King Charles' younger son, who became the first senior British
SCHENECTADY — With Schenectady fast approaching the end of the year and no 2024 budget in place, the City Council does not currently have a special budget meeting scheduled following Schenectady Mayor Gary McCarthy’s veto of the council’s second budget on Wednesday. Budget discussions will resume during the council’s Finance Committee meeting on Monday evening.
