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Wednesday, December 19, 2012  The owner of the Tebbs Head Shops chain pleaded guilty Wednesday to various charges related including the illegal distribution of synthetic marijuana and bath salts.

Friday, December 14, 2012  A former New York city man has admitted to fatally shooting Jermaine Stubbs outside an upstate bar last summer. Jemal Gadson pleaded guilty Thursday in Oneida County Court to shooting Stubbs six times on July 23 outside a Utica bar where the men had a confrontation.

Tuesday, October 30, 2012  Authorities say a lawyer employed by a federal court in Syracuse has been suspended after pleading guilty to molesting a 10-year-old boy.

Friday, August 31, 2012  A Syracuse man accused of threatening a 5-year-old boy with a knife while high on bath salts pleaded guilty to weapon charges Friday morning.

Monday, July 30, 2012  The Clay woman who was accused of murdering and dumping her newborn baby in a dumpster in January 2011 was sentenced to 13 years in prison Monday morning.

Thursday, July 12, 2012  A 33-year-old Glens Falls man admits he broke his girlfriend's 7-week-old baby's leg by yanking on it.

Monday, July 09, 2012  The Clay woman who was accused of murdering and dumping her newborn baby in a dumpster back in January pleaded guilty to first-degree manslaughter Monday morning.

Thursday, March 01, 2012  A northern New York man has pleaded guilty to federal drug charges stemming from his attempt to elude U.S. Border Patrol agents after smuggling 240 pounds of marijuana across the Canadian border.

Friday, February 10, 2012  A 52-year-old man has been found guilty of causing the fire that killed a woman at a rural upstate New York cabin where methamphetamine was being made.

Thursday, February 09, 2012  Jury deliberations have begun in the manslaughter trial of an upstate New York man charged with causing a woman's death in an explosion at a methamphetamine lab last year.

Tuesday, January 31, 2012  An upstate New York substitute teacher has pleaded guilty to the attempted rape of a 14-year-old girl he was tutoring.