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Former New York Yankees manager Joe Girardi will be joining the MLB Network as studio analyst, the Sporting News reported Wednesday morning.

With a smaller headquarters staff, Golub Corp. is looking to sublet up to half the office space in its 240,000-square-foot, six-story office building on Nott Street in Schenectady.Golub moved its 750 headquarters employees into the $33 million building in 2010, with room for expansion as the company grew.

The mother of a man whose body was discovered Tuesday more than a year after he was reported missing says he should be remembered as a good man and excellent father.Brandyn Dayne Foster was reported missing Jan. 30, 2017 to the Woodstock Police Department. Foster, a rap musician with an international following, was the son of renowned jazz drummer Al Foster, said his mother Bonnie Steinberg, of Woodstock.

NEW YORK (AP) — Some communities north of New York City have been rattled by a magnitude 2.2 earthquake.The U.S. Geological Survey says the quake registered at 6:14 a.m. Wednesday in the Lake Mohegan area of New York.

A teenager admits he and another teen gunned down a Mechanicville man at the victim's house last year and in a deal with prosecutors promised to testify against his co-defendant.Joseph A. Broscko, 17, pleaded guilty to second-degree murder on Wednesday, telling Saratoga County Court Judge James A. Murphy III that he and Nikolai Mavashev killed David J. Feliciano as they tried to rob him on Aug. 7.

New York's graduation rate climbed half a percentage point to 80.2 percent last June, state education officials reported Wednesday.

As part of the Warrant Wednesday initiative, State Police are looking for a Brooklyn man who allegedly cashed fraudulent checks in Colonie and a woman who drove drunk on the Thruway in the Capital Region.

Schools across the Capital Region were closed Wednesday as the region braced for an approaching storm that is expected to drop more than 8 inches of snow on the region.

WASHINGTON _ With two days to go before the next government-funding deadline, President Trump on Tuesday threatened to “shut it down” if he doesn’t get the border-security package he demands.But Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer struck a more optimistic note, saying his Tuesday negotiating session with Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell “went very well,” and that “we are closer to an agreement than we have ever been.”

Andrew Nally, a senior project engineer at Precision Valve & Automation, developed a system that reduces the reflection and glare on outdoor electronics - an invention that was awarded a patent on Tuesday.