Former Schenectady police chief Greg Kaczmarek participated in calls to alleged drug kingpin Kerry Kirkem, offering to go to Long Island to get cocaine in time for his birthday, according to wiretap transcripts obtained exclusively today by The Daily Gazette.

To read transcripts of calls between Lisa Kaczmarek and alleged drug ring leader Kerry Kirkem, click here and here.

The Fulton County Bar Association will meet Monday afternoon to decide whether to attempt to file a "friend of the court" brief supporting the final appeal of Fulton County Family Court Judge David F. Jung.

Police said they are getting little help from a man who was shot in the back Thursday evening on Lark Drive.

Four Republican members of the Clifton Park Town Board will no longer receive support from the town party committee, according to GOP Chairman Robert Wilcox.

Verizon Wireless has permission to build a fourth cell-phone tower along the Adirondack Northway as part of its plan to fill a service gap along remote stretches of the upstate New York interstate.

Charging $2,000 to cut down a tree that would normally cost $75 to drop doesn't constitute a crime, but an Amsterdam man also found that charging a senior citizen for other work around the house that was never performed does.