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Tuesday, May 14, 2013  A 49-year-old Massachusetts man has admitted threatening a student at Skidmore College. Saratoga County District Attorney James A. Murphy III tells local media outlets that Lance Leonard pleaded guilty Monday to a felony charge of first-degree coercion.

Tuesday, March 26, 2013  A  Saratoga Springs woman has celebrated her 110th birthday, making her one of the oldest people in the United States.

Friday, February 22, 2013  Skidmore President Philip Glotzbach says the college's campus security office conducted an investigation and has turned the results over to Saratoga Springs police and the Saratoga County District Attorney's Office.

Monday, January 07, 2013  A new proposal would require criminal background checks to keep sex offenders from landing jobs at senior care facilities.

Thursday, December 13, 2012  A 27-year-old upstate New York man has been accused of battering his mother to death and hiding her body under a shed at their home has been indicted on a second-degree murder charge.

Thursday, December 06, 2012  A 22-year-old Saratoga County man has admitted to being drunk behind the wheel when his sport utility vehicle struck and killed a teenage girl standing alongside a road last summer.

Thursday, November 29, 2012  State officials say they've reached an agreement with two New York gun show operators to restrict illegal sales.

Tuesday, November 20, 2012  A Saratoga Springs police officer has been charged with assault following an off-duty altercation at a local bar.

Thursday, November 01, 2012  A 27-year-old man is accused of beating his mother to death and hiding her body under a shed.

Saturday, September 29, 2012  West Genesee grad was stationed in Ballston Spa

Thursday, September 13, 2012  Primary voters are going to the polls in New York, where controversy over legalization of gay marriage last year and an unusual number of vacancies has upped the stakes.

Wednesday, August 15, 2012  Authorities say one person has been killed and another injured when their single-engine airplane crashed in an Albany suburb.

Wednesday, June 27, 2012  Authorities say a 31-year-old man was high on drugs when state police clocked him driving more than 100 mph through a work zone on a suburban Albany highway.

Wednesday, April 04, 2012  Authorities say high tech, fake driver licenses used by a group of upstate New York teens were the product of a global network based in China.

Wednesday, March 28, 2012  State police say they've removed more than 130 cats from a suburban Albany home that authorities have declared uninhabitable because of squalid conditions.