Furious efforts to restore a Jersey shore boardwalk hard-hit by Superstorm Sandy last year were undone Thursday by a wind-whipped fire that wiped out more than 50 businesses in Seaside Park and Seaside Heights. Firefighters worked for hours to bring the 6-alarm blaze that began in a frozen custard stand under control.
September 25, 2013
Pakistan's Earthquake Was So Powerful It Created a New Island
Twitter: @Senator_Baloch
A major earthquake struck southwestern Pakistan earlier
today killing over 100 people; injuring thousands more;
collapsing building and houses; and, incredibly, causing a
small island to form in the sea off Pakistan's coastline.
September 22, 2013
Brian Holloway hosts picnic after party creates headlines Updated:
Saturday, September 21 2013, 11:26 PM EDT
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STEPHENTOWN -- It's the party gone viral, that has left a community outraged. Hundreds of teens broke into former NFL player Brian Hollaway's Stephentown home, leaving behind thousands of dollars in damages, and a line of evidence on social media. And it's that exposure that has parents of the teens threatening to sue Holloway for outing their kids. "I don't see how that makes sense to sue someone when you destroyed their property," Holloway's son Brian
tells us.
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Mobbed
Next Pizza Night is October 19!
September 19, 2013
East Greenbush man reported missing
Posted: Sep 19, 2013 2:19 PM EDT
EAST GREENBUSH, N.Y. - The East Greenbush Police Department is asking for the public's help finding a man reported missing from his home.
63-year-old John A. Paige, Jr. is a local building contractor with offices located on Columbia Turnpike in Schodack Center, and residence on Ponderosa Blvd. in East Greenbush.
Paige was last accounted for Tuesday around 4 p.m. but has not been seen or heard from since. His family is greatly concerned for his well-being.
Paige is described as a white male, 6'02", 250 pounds, brown eyes, black hair. He was in possession of a company truck which is also missing; a black, 2007 GMC Sierra pick-up truck with New York commercial registration 93800JH. The truck has ladder racks and high-board side tool boxes bearing the company name in white lettering, "PAIGE CONSTRUCTION".
Anyone with information is asked to call 479-2525.
September 17, 2013
CASTLETON'S VILLAGE-WIDE GARAGE SALE
VILLAGE-WIDE GARAGE SALE – our annual village wide garage sale will be held Saturday, September 21st. Applications to be on the map are available at Village Hall.
Check out photos from previous years.
Check out photos from previous years.
September 15, 2013
East Greenbush man dies in climbing accident
Posted at: 09/13/2013 9:48 AM | Updated at: 09/13/2013 5:55 PM
By: Dan Bazile
By: Dan Bazile
NEW SCOTLAND -- Ronald Czajkowski, 44, of East Greenbush, fell 120 feet to his death early Friday morning at Thatcher Park, according to police.
The Indian Ladder trail at Thacher State Park.
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Layton said Czajkowski, who had very little experience climbing, came to the park just around sunrise. He said it appears the victim did not have the proper knot on the rope as he was trying to rappel off the cliff.
"He's only been climbing a few times. It's a new thing for him. It's only been over the last few weeks," Layton said.
September 13, 2013
India Gang Rape Case: 4 Men Sentenced To Death
By SHIVANI RAWAT and KATY DAIGLE 09/13/13 11:33 AM ET EDT 
NEW DELHI -- An Indian court Friday sentenced to death
four men for the gang rape and murder of a young New Delhi woman, ordering them to the gallows for a brutal attack that riveted India, where it became a symbol of the widespread mistreatment of women and the government's inability to deal with crime.
U.S. consulate in Afghanistan attacked
BREAKING NEWS:
U.S. consulate in Afghanistan attacked
Updated: Friday, September 13 2013, 04:44 AM EDTKABUL, Afghanistan (AP) -- The State Department says all U.S. personnel are safe after Taliban militants attacked a U.S. consulate in western Afghanistan Friday morning. The attackers used a car bomb and guns to battle security forces just outside the compound in the city of Herat. It was not entirely clear whether any attackers managed to breach the facility, but at least two Afghans were killed along with five alleged militants. The Taliban has claimed responsibility for the attack. Insurgent strikes have shifted in recent months. Once concentrated in the country's south and east, they now frequently occur in the north and west, which had been the more peaceful areas in years past. Herat, the site of Friday's attack, lies near Afghanistan's border with Iran and is considered one of the better developed cities in the country, with a strong Iranian influence.
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September 12, 2013
Oil spill disrupts traffic near ICC
Written by Emilia Teasdale
Thursday, 12 September 2013 12:40
KINDERHOOK--State Police are investigating a fuel oil spill at the intersection of Route 9 and Route 9H where a tanker apparently rolled over at about 12:30 p.m. today (September 12).
The traffic circle will be closed until further notice. Police advise motorists to seek alternate routes. A State of Emergency has been declared for a two mile area around the accident site.
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September 10, 2013
September 9, 2013
Former NFL star's area home damaged after party of 300 teens
Posted: Sep 09, 2013 4:00 PM EDT
STEPHENTOWN, N.Y. - A vacant Rensselaer County home belonging to a former NFL star was trashed after police allege 300 teens broke in, converting the old farmhouse into a wild party house.
Former New England Patriots player Brian Holloway tells NEWS10 ABC he was in Florida on August 31st when he received word that his vacant Stephentown farmhouse was the scene of a large party.
Holloway says he received word of the party from his son, who saw notifications about the party on Twitter, getting tweets that a break-in was going on at the home including drugs, alcohol, and destruction of property.
The police were called to the scene, where they allegedly found the yard full of cars and around 300 teenaged people running from the home and barns on the property.
Investigators with the Rensselaer County Sheriff's Office documented the damage finding walls spray painted, windows broken, floors scuffed by beer kegs and soaked with urine.
But Holloway says that isn't even the worst of it. He says someone stole an eagle statue that was part of a memorial for his stillborn grandson and very important to his family.
September 8, 2013
Arkansas SWAT officers kill man, 107, in standoff
September 7, 2013
Obama Rejects G20 Pressure To Abandon Syria Air Strike Plan
By Matt Spetalnick and Alexei Anishchuk
Obama refused to blink after Russian President Vladimir Putin led a campaign to talk him out of military intervention at a two-day summit of the Group of Twenty developed and developing economies in St. Petersburg.
He persuaded nine other G20 nations plus Spain to join the United States in signing a statement calling for a strong international response, although it fell short of supporting military strikes, underscoring the deep disagreements that dominated the summit.
A senior U.S. official said German Chancellor Angela Merkel, the only European leader at the summit who did not sign the statement, held off because she wanted to let the European Union have a chance to weigh in first.
Washington's ambassador to the United Nations, Samantha Power, made clear on Thursday that the United States had given up trying to work with the Security Council on the issue, and accused Russia of holding it hostage.
September 6, 2013
Two startups find a home in a Schodack middle school basement
The Schodack Central School Districtmoved in its first twostartup companies this fall, and Bob Horan is expanding the reciprocal arrangement.
Horan, Schodack’s superintendent, sees dual benefits to giving free space to the two fledgling energy companies, MICROrganic Technologies and Tumalow.
In exchange for the free space (both companies are miles away from generating revenue yet), the owners will give their time to students, and their expertise to faculty members who will develop curricula and experiments based on the companies’ technologies.
Horan said both companies’ technologies fit well with Schodack’s biotech, semiconductor and energy programs.
“It’s a great trade-off,” said Horan, who is preparing to sign on a third startup. The companies’ first introduction to the school community drew 50 faculty members.
Wrecks stop Route 7 traffic
GREEN ISLAND — A two-car accident involving a school bus full of football players halted rush-hour traffic leaving Troy on Route 7 westbound Friday evening, officials and a witness said.
Tom Nastars, who drove by the accident just before the exit for Interstate 787, said it appeared that an East Greenbush Central School District bus had been involved in an accident with a car that "looked like it was completely smashed and had spun around" before coming to rest in the middle of the westbound lanes.
The bus was full of Columbia High Schoolfootball players and coaches heading to a game against Shenendehowa, and Nastars said no one appeared to be injured in the accident. A Colonie Emergency Services dispatcher said one minor injury had been reported shortly after the accident.
The bus reportedly arrived at the field shortly before 6:30 p.m., pushing back the start time by one hour.
The Department of Transportation shut down Route 7 westbound shortly after the accident. The road was reopened at 6:40 p.m., with continued delays, according to the DOT.
Nastars said when he passed the accident just before 6 p.m., traffic had come to a standstill.
Meanwhile, Nastars said a fender-bender on the eastbound side of Route 7 across from the westbound accident had slowed traffic to a crawl. The DOT announced at 5:45 p.m. that the eastbound lanes were closed and motorists should expect long delays.
Word is everyone is fine. The team made it to the game, just a little late!
The exhaust pipe of the bus went right through the car!" said one witness.
Word is everyone is fine. The team made it to the game, just a little late!
September 4, 2013
Ariel Castro found dead in prison cell
Tribune staff and wire reports
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CLEVELAND—
Ariel Castro, sentenced to life in prison for the kidnapping, rape and beatings of three Cleveland women he held captive for years in his house, was found hanged in his prison cell Tuesday night, a state corrections official said.
The former school bus driver, who was under protective custody and isolated from other inmates at the Correctional Reception Center in Orient, Ohio, was found dead at about 9:20 p.m. when prison staff were making their rounds, Rehabilitation and Correction Department spokeswoman JoEllen Smith said.
After prison medical personnel tried to resuscitate him, Castro, 53, was transferred to an area hospital and pronounced dead about 90 minutes later, she said.
Castro was sentenced on Aug. 1 to life plus 1,000 years in prison without the possibility of parole for abducting his three victims and keeping them imprisoned in the dungeon-like confines of his house, where they were starved, beaten and sexually assaulted for about a decade.
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CLEVELAND, Ohio — It's been just four months since Amanda Berry, Gina DeJesus and Michelle Knight were found in the Seymour Avenue home of Ariel Castro.
Now, the swift-moving story that caught the attention of the world has taken another staggering turn. Castro, 53, was found dead in his prison cell Tuesday night at theCorrectional Reception Center in Orient, Ohio, south of Columbus.
September 1, 2013
August 30, 2013
School Cafeterias Improved at No Cost to District
School cafeterias are receiving new equipment and improvements this year at no cost to the district thanks to funding received from a settlement between the parent company of Chartwells food services and New York State’s Attorney General Office.
Last year, the state Attorney General announced a settlement with Compass Group USA after the company did not pass on rebates from vendors, manufacturers and distributors. As a result, Schodack CSD was one of dozens of schools to receive part of the settlement. Schodack received $105,000.
“I want to stress that we could not use this money for anything except to improve our food services. The State Attorney General’s Office was very specific about that,” said Superintendent Bob Horan. “We decided the best way to use the money was to improve our facilities for students.”
The British aren't coming
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WASHINGTON — The goal of the cruise missile strikes the
ago against the use of poison gas.
Even an attack that the president has described as no more than an effort to restore the “red line” could diminish the ability of Syrian forces to attack population centers with conventional munitions, depending on how the attack is devised.Read more...
August 29, 2013
Another Uncle Sam statue vandalized
TROY, N.Y. -- Another case of vandalism against an Uncle Sam statue in Troy in under investigation by police.
This time is was the Uncle Sam at Barker Park that was damaged. Like two others before him, the head was removed, and the body of the statue is now in storage.
Police have not made any arrests, although they have located the head of one of the statues at a home in Mechanicville and an arrest could be imminent.
This time is was the Uncle Sam at Barker Park that was damaged. Like two others before him, the head was removed, and the body of the statue is now in storage.
Police have not made any arrests, although they have located the head of one of the statues at a home in Mechanicville and an arrest could be imminent.
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August 26, 2013
Nikki Hart's killer to be sentenced - 20 years to life
Updated: Monday, August 26 2013,
12:22 PM EDT TROY --
The estranged boyfriend of the local 33-year-old real estate agent he admitted to killing in a drunken rage
will be sentenced on Monday morning.
29-year-old Jason Guynup of Troy, the live in boyfriend and father of Nikki Hart's two young
daughters, pleaded guilty to second degree murder earlier this year. Guynup confessed to breaking into Hart's Schodack home and stabbing her to death while she slept back in December 2012.
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