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By Steven Cook
Gazette Reporter

A former Schenectady ARC employee accused over the summer of raping an ARC client is now accused of violating a related order of protection, authorities said.

By Steven Cook
Gazette Reporter

The family of an 86-year-old woman who died after being diagnosed with Legionnaire’s disease is planning a lawsuit once the source of the outbreak is known, the family’s attorney said Monday.

At least six children were killed Monday afternoon when a school bus crashed in Chattanooga, Tennessee, according to local officials.

Seven men who French authorities say were planning a terrorist attack have been arrested in France, the government announced Monday, sounding an alert about the continuing threat from terrorism barely a year after the attacks that killed 130 people in and around Paris.

A San Antonio police detective who was shot to death while sitting in a squad car was apparently killed just for being on the force, the city’s police chief said Monday, a day after four officers were shot in separate episodes around the country.

Civil rights groups called on President-elect Donald Trump on Monday to publicly condemn extremist movements that are espousing racism in his name after hundreds of white nationalist sympathizers spent the weekend at a conference in Washington.

Regional ski centers welcomed the first significant snow of the season by firing back.

More than 3 million New Yorkers – the most since Thanksgiving of 2007 – are planning to hit the road for the holiday, according to AAA’s annual travel survey.

A powerful earthquake struck off the coast of Japan early Tuesday, near where the nuclear power plant in Fukushima was destroyed by a quake and tsunami in 2011.

By Brett Samuels
Gazette Reporter

A couple of Capital Region entrepreneurs are launching a new independent gaming studio in Troy.