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An improved labor market is giving unemployed Americans hope and keeping them in the job hunt, a change from recent years, when weak prospects forced many to drop out.

Only at Neiman Marcus, where you can buy a $395 rabbit-fur jacket for a baby who will probably throw up on it, or a $1,300 tufted sofa for your dog, are collard greens considered "gourmet food."

*Police must patrol school zones better
*Clinton doesn’t fight for anyone but herself
*Tedisco will be a voice for citizens in Senate
*Clinton is in favor of barbaric abortions
*City’s tourism effort must have a strategy
*Grateful for help from woman at Wal-Mart
*Letters policy

Life changed in the early part of Thursday morning for a large percentage of people in Chicago.

Schenectady police say two people were shot in an apartment on the 400 block of Shannon Street in the Bellevue neighborhood at about 9:25 Wednesday night.

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*Next president must address Ukraine crisis head-on
*Hillary Clinton has been compassionate behind the scenes
*Trump's only agenda is glorifying himself
*Pipeline will only cause harm to communities, environment
*Alex Jurczynski will follow in father's footsteps on council
*Not happy with response from police department
*Expand access to Adirondack Park to those of all fitness levels

By Bill Buell

Violinist Aram Kim of Albany didn’t expect to win the Empire State Youth Orchestra’s annual Lois Lyman Concerto Competition, but the judges knew what they were listening to.
“She blew them away,” said ESYO music director Helen Cha-Pyo. “It was unanimous. There was no question that she should be the winner.”
Kim, who at 14 is also the youngest to ever win the competition, will perform the Belgian composer Henri Vieuxtemps’ lusciously romantic Concerto No. 5 (1861) on Saturday.