Saratoga County’s top defender and prosecutor are working on a project aimed at helping returning war veterans, but a message about the effort has offended some people in the community.

A Washington County man has been sentenced to 71⁄3 to 14 years in prison after admitting he slashed a police officer’s throat with a razor last fall in Saratoga Springs.

Residents who spoke Monday night during a public meeting on the proposed 120-bed hospital along Route 146 were mostly in favor of the project, though the developer remains mum on the question of who would operate the hospital.

There will be stepped-up police patrols against drunk and aggressive driving across the county during the last weekend in June, when local schools hold their graduation ceremonies.

A Washington County man was sentenced this morning to 9-1/3 to 14 years in prison for slashing a police officer's throat with a razor last fall in Saratoga Springs.

A group of Galway High School students is in the top 20 of a national science contest with an entry that was “thrown together in an hour,” according to one of the contestants.

Adam Kramer, vice chairman of the Clifton Park Republican Committee, voiced strong disagreement Sunday with a move by Chairman Bob Wilcox to cut off several town officials from the party’s long-standing network of political support.

Gov. David Paterson quoted other intellectuals Saturday in his first commencement address since becoming governor, attacking narrow-mindedness in his one political comment.

Cate Dolan recalls the Mexican backstretch worker who grieved so much when his father died that he sought counseling.

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

If you visit Manhattan this summer, you just might see a sight familiar from your jaunts in downtown Saratoga Springs last summer.

Plans for a 120-bed hospital with a 24-hour emergency room on Route 146 in the town will be presented to residents at a public information session Monday.

A local physician wants to establish her medical practice in the historic Wayside Inn and Meeting Center at Locust Grove and Wilton roads.

For the second time in two years a new playground has been installed at the Lake Avenue Elementary School by students’ parents.

The Ballston Spa Board of Education has chosen Joseph Dragone as the new superintendent of schools.