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A pair of health care workers from Rensselaer were in the right place at the right time recently when they saved a man's life who had no pulse when they saw him lying on the ground at JFK Airport in New York City. Ironically, the heroic feat happened after they had just returned from a Florida vacation while using their free JetBlue Airline tickets given to health care heroes...

Ahhh Summertime in the Capital Region.  Can't you just hear your kids already?  "Im bored!"  "What's for lunch?"  "Can I have a snack?"  "How come we never doooo anything?" Now that school is pretty much a wrap for the summer, most kids (that may or may not repeat the above statements several thousand times) will be looking for something to do while parents

In the sports world, there are few things more exciting than a Game 7.  It's what kids dream of when shooting hoops in the backyard with friends; it's do or die, win or go home and in this case, where legends are born. Last night during game 7 of the NBA Eastern Conference semi-finals, 2016 Shen grad Kevin Huerter came through with the best game of his life, putting on an absolute clinic of epic p

It's hard to tell by their mugshots what eggs-actly these two were thinking.  They appear to be a bit smug which leaves me to wonder if their arrest felt like some kind of a yoke to them, or were they just too shell-shocked to know how to react. ...

A Cobleskill man with a long history of violence, agression and sexual deviance killed a man on Tuesday afternoon when he intentionally rammed the victim with his car.  During the savage outburst, he also killed two dogs and displaced many others when the vehicle he was driving smashed through a Cobleskill hotel and into the room of the motel where both the victim and the perp had been living. ...

Woody Harrelson, the star of the HBO's upcoming five-part Watergate series, "The White House Plumbers," wasn't scheduled to be filmed during day #1  of the downtown Albany shoot on Tuesday, but he dropped by on bike anyway. It's pretty awesome to see big stars like Harrelson and Justin Theroux in the state capital, and even better if you're able to get down there to catch a glimpse of th

According to the Schenectady Police Department, the black bear seen galivanting throughout various neighborhoods in the Electric City appears to have headed back into the forest.  For a few hours, it was at the very least a mild concern to those in the Woodlawn neighborhood of the city.   P...

It was dangerously hot when the batteries on Stanley Green's motorized wheelchair died last Monday in Albany.  To make maters worse, his oxygen tank was running low and he had neither the strength nor the energy to get himself back home. ...

My dad, Papa Codes aka "Harry the Barber" has been clipping heads in Albany for over 50 years and when I saw this awesome story celebrating another longtime Capital Region barber, I got a little choked up.   Barbers are true artists - masters of their craft - and if you're lucky enough to find a good one, you're more than likely to stay with that stylist for life. I don...

For last few months, the Glens Falls rocking chair that simply "appeared" one April day in a local park created an air of of mystery, intrigue, and speculation.  What was  story behind the portrait of the little girl and who is the person holding her hand seen in the silhouette on the back of the chair placed inside City Park in Glens Falls?  Some people ...

How in the world does this happen and is it okay for me to be happy for this Pittsfield man, but not too happy? I mean, we all know someone who's pretty lucky, but this is off the charts stuff here. According to WHDH.com a man in Pittsfield recently claimed a 1 million dollar jackpot from a Massachusetts lottery and incredibly it wasn't the first time he's won that giant amount. 2...

Surrounded by the floral scents and tropical aromas of an oasis of wonderful candles, a local couple melted more than hearts when they got engaged inside Crossgates Mall Memorial Day Weekend at - you guessed it - a Yankee Candle. According to a story by our friend Kristi from the Times Union, Caylan Nugent, a nurse, said "Yes" when Shaquille Collins, the man she'd been dating for two yea