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SCHENECTADY — Mayor Gary McCarthy announced the end of the State of Emergency declared Jan. 28 of the Nott Terrace hillside on Wednesday. According to a press release, enough progress has been made at the hillside.

BETHLEHEM—The New York State Humane Association is offering a $500 reward for information regarding the dead beagle-mix dog dumped on Clapper Road last week.Call Detective Ken Beck at the Bethlehem Police Department at 518-439-9973 with information.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share

ALBANY — David Laitin, professor of political science at Stanford University, presented his research on low-income immigrants' access to citizenship at University at Albany on Wednesday afternoon.In 1970, 64 percent of legal foreign-born residents were naturalized.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share

An Albany County grand jury indicted state Senate aide Robert Nickol Tuesday in connection with a September domestic violence incident.Nickol is scheduled to be arraigned Friday morning in Albany County Court before Judge William Carter.

COLONIE - Albany International Airport's new food service concession company, OHM Concession Group, is holding a job fair next week to hire new workers for its three new restaurants at the airport, a Chick fil-A; Wolfgang Puck Pizza and American Market by Todd English.

Hunter Mountain, which is down in Greene County, is the setting for a new reality show on MTV.

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

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.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share

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.

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.”