Category: Capital Region

ALBANY — America will be a healthier and happier place if Tim Scott somehow manages to win the Republican presidential nomination, particularly since the long-shot victory would mean the defeat of a toxic certain someone currently leading in the polls.  Even some who dislike Scott’s conservative politics grudgingly credit Scott’s sunny optimism and his inspiring biography.…

ALBANY — At 14 years old, Kizzy “Allie B” Williams began selling food on the streets of Harlem. Her home-cooked collard greens, yams, rice and beans and ribs often sold out by noon. Decades later, Williams continues to cook — and routinely sell out — of these same soul food favorites. But instead of a makeshift…

NEW SCOTLAND — An early morning fire Saturday killed a five-year-old girl, two men and one woman at a rural setting just off Route 155, Albany County Sheriff Craig D. Apple Sr. said. The lone survivor is a 14-year-old boy who jumped from a second-story window, Apple said. He is being treated at Albany Medical…

When Connor Toomey signed up for a camp at Albany Rowing Center in the summer after seventh grade, he thought that rowing would be just a hobby. “I kind of just enjoyed being outdoors with some of my friends. I always played basketball and baseball growing up,” said Toomey, a lifelong Albany resident. “So I never…

ALBANY — A prolonged inquiry by state Attorney General Letitia James’ office found that a legislative nonprofit failed to properly document some of the hundreds of thousands of dollars it raised, was slow to pay promised scholarships to high school students  and was undermined by a lack of oversight by the state legislators on its board.…

TROY — Tenants evacuated from an apartment complex with sagging brick walls are still living in a motel, more than two weeks after Troy code enforcers declared their apartments uninhabitable. They came to the Troy City Council meeting Thursday to describe their current living conditions: buying three meals a day because they have no way to…

Jackson helps Milwaukee Bucks to victory over Pickett’s Nuggets in Las Vegas July 7, 2023 This is a carousel. Use Next and Previous buttons to navigate 1of3Nam Y. Huh/Associated PressShow MoreShow Less 2of3Hans Pennink/Times UnionShow MoreShow Less 3of3 In their NBA Summer League debuts, Amsterdam native and Albany Academy graduate Andre Jackson Jr. had nine…

POUGHKEEPSIE — The city of Poughkeepsie on Thursday approved a $400,000 settlement in a civil rights lawsuit brought by the mother of Jamelia Barnett and Julissa Dawkins, girls whose confrontation with city police in 2019 was captured in a 17-second video that went viral amid concerns about police brutality. The incident unfolded March 11, 2019,…