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ALBANY -- Former state Senate Majority Leader Joe Bruno allegedly pitched a friend on a $30,000-a-month consultant job because he saw Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver making big bucks as a lawyer -- and he too wanted in on the side-gig action. The ...

ALBANY, GA (WALB) –An Albany housekeeper, can now sit back and pay someone to clean her house. She won the lottery! 43-year old Belinda Gilliard matched all five winning numbers in the Fantasy five drawing November 10th. She won a whopping $280,000 ...

Persistence was key for an Albany housekeeper who won over $280,000 in the Nov. 10 Georgia Lottery Fantasy 5 drawing. Belinda Gilliard, 43, matched all five numbers to win $280,127. She purchased the ticket at June Bug’s Grocery on S. Madison St ...

About 2,000 people turned out for a rally Thursday in Albany, where health care workers protested planned budget cuts. But first the governor must reckon with the likes of Senator Carl Kruger . Mr. Kruger, a Brooklyn Democrat who is the chairman of ...

Four prime pieces from North Carolina’s run to the national championship last season graduated to the N.B.A. , led by the four-time first-team all-American forward Tyler Hansbrough. But Syracuse could relate. Point guard Jonny Flynn hit the N.B.A ...

ATLANTA — Only six months after graduating from Georgia Southern University, Beau Turpin has yet another movie role under his belt. The 24-year-old Albany native is currently in the Warner Bros. film, “The Blind Side,” which was shot in Atlanta ...

Among the people Abbruzzese consequently met were a Florida developer building a casino, billionaire Donald Trump and ... officials from the Republican National Committee, he said, and at three New York City dinners that included institutional ...

Larry Hughes slides back into the starting lineup in place of Toney Douglas today, the only change to the starting five for the game. D'Antoni said Eddy Curry would continue to see more minutes after having a "dominating" practice yesterday. "I don't ...

ALBANY -- HomeSave, a coalition working to prevent Capital Region home foreclosures, will present the film "American Casino" tonight at The Linda auditorium at 339 Central Ave. in Albany. The documentary explains the subprime mortgage crisis.

Syracuse, NY - New York State legislators have spent five fruitless days in Albany and about a half a million dollars in taxpayer money while attempting to slash more than $3 billion from this year’s budget. Wednesday marked another go-nowhere ...