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An Albany County grand jury indicted state Senate aide Robert Nickol Tuesday in connection with a September domestic violence incident.Nickol is scheduled to be arraigned Friday morning in Albany County Court before Judge William Carter.

The zoning board of appeals will reschedule discussion on tonight's agenda due to the heavy snowfall.The Feb. 7 agenda items will be added to the board's March 7th meeting.Zoning bpard of appeals meetings are broadcast live on the web.

Tattoo benefit will raise money for Troy artist and business owner who has cancer.

Developers of an apartment complex on Ontario Street must wait to see if their requested $7.7 million in tax breaks will be approved to move along their proposal for the former Playdium Bowling alley site.

COLONIE - Albany International Airport's new food service concession company, OHM Concession Group, is holding a job fair next week to hire new workers for its three new restaurants at the airport, a Chick fil-A; Wolfgang Puck Pizza and American Market by Todd English.

The Albany County District Attorney's office has taken over the prosecution of the former Troy police union president, who is accused of stealing $6,200 from the union's banking account.Jonathan Desso, a spokesman for Rensselaer County District Attorney Joel Abelove, asked Judge Debra Young to assign a special prosecutor because of conflicts in the case.

Hunter Mountain, which is down in Greene County, is the setting for a new reality show on MTV.

The Bethlehem Morning Voice Huddle was born from the 2016, as an outgrowth of the Women's March as a platform where crucial, controversial issues could be illuminated and discussed. Tonight, the Huddle will grapple with Medicare for All and single payer healthcare in the Bethlehem Town Hall at 7 p.m.

ALBANY — A federal judge has upheld a lawsuit filed by a man who was wrongly convicted of murdering a college student after signing a confession that was allegedly coerced by Albany detectives.In a decision that puts the case on track for trial, U.S. District Judge David N. Hurd rejected arguments to dismiss the suit that were filed by attorneys for the city of Albany and six former detectives who took part in the investigation that wrongly sent two men to prison for the 1997 murder.

A Fort Ann woman is facing a felony DWI charge after troopers allegedly found her unconscious behind the wheel of a car with the engine running and two children in the back seat.