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State Police have arrested a math teacher at Maple Avenue Middle School in Saratoga Springs. They say Joseph Bruno of Gansevoort had inappropriate physical contact with a 14 year old student inside a classroom. The alleged offense happened on Monday after regular school hours. Police say they got the report on Tuesday and Bruno was placed on administrative leave by the school district,...

SARATOGA SPRINGS - The New York Lottery's communications director told NewsChannel 13 Friday afternoon that the twelve "wild eyes" VLTs at the Saratoga Casino and Raceway have been taken out of service, and another forty of them have been shut down at the other casinos overseen by the Lottery across the state. The shutdown follows a NewsChannel 13...

SARATOGA SPRINGS - Lindsey Ferguson was a track and cross-country star at Saratoga Springs High School. When she left practice on Halloween 2005 and walked to her car, this man tried to kidnap her. But the elite athlete, who would go to Notre Dame on a scholarship, fought him off. John Regan, a member of a prominent Connecticut family, was put behind bars. Meanwhile, in Regan's...

SARATOGA SPRINGS - A Lake George woman uses an iPhone to capture an unexplained drop in her total while playing a video lottery terminal at the Saratoga Casino and Raceway. "See, I think I got it on video that time," Cyndie Wade-Wood can be heard saying on the recording. The machine's maximum bet was two dollars, but her balance suddenly drops more than...

SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. (AP) - A lack of funding and dwindling participation is being blamed for the cancellation of a Memorial Day held in Saratoga Springs for more than 25 years.           Organizers of the annual parade in downtown Saratoga Springs tell the Daily Gazette of Schenectady that waning recognition of the holiday as a day to...

TICONDEROGA, N.Y. (AP) - Fort Ticonderoga is kicking off its 103rd season with a special opening weekend event and the unveiling of a new exhibit that highlight's the upstate New York historic site's extensive weapons collection.           The fort overlooking Lake Champlain's southern end opens Friday. On Saturday night, there's...

RICHMONDVILLE - A Saratoga Springs man was arrested and accused of going on a crime spree and stealing a truck. New York State Police said that 36-year-old Nicholas P. Beer started a crime spree in Saratoga County where he was involved in multiple larcenies before stealing a box truck in Wilton. After this, Beer went home and woke up his two sons and his wife. Police said he loaded the truck...

SARATOGA SPRINGS - A Waterford man may spend the next three-decades behind bars, convicted on charges that he raped a woman, intending to give her AIDS. Samuel Serrano-Gonzalez is expected to receive 32 years in state prison. The district attorney says the 28-year-old, who knew he was HIV positive, raped the victim because she broke up with him. In doing so, Serrano-Gonzalez tried to give her...

ALBANY - Wanda Hernandez has been living with HIV/AIDS for over a decade.  She says she's tired of feeling like a criminal for using marijuana to battle the effects of her illness. "Because of my HIV medication, I have constant battles of nausea and I have trouble holding down the food that I need to maintain myself and stay healthy but when I can use marijuana, it helps me...

Governor Cuomo wants to cap salaries for directors of state-funded not-for-profits and for-profit groups. Under it, executives would be limited to a top salary of $199,000 The proposed regulations cover providers that receive more than half a million dollars in state support every year and receive at least thirty percent of their annual funding from the state.