Schoharie County

SUMMIT, N.Y. (AP) — Authorities say a 76-year-old man is hospitalized after he spent more than a week trapped inside his snowbound, heatless home in a rural upstate New York town. The Schoharie County Sheriff's Office tells The Daily Gazette of Schenectady that a concerned neighbor called the man Tuesday at his home in Summit, 40 miles west of Albany...

State Police in Cobleskill have arrested a Richmondville man for assault and endangering the welfare of a child. The incident occurred around 3:30 am at an address on State Route 7 in the Town of Richmondville. The victim and her children left the residence and reported the incident to State Police...

A bill allowing for the dissolution of MOSA, the tri-county solid waste authority, is now in front of the New York Senate. State Senator James Seward announced Monday that legislation he sponsors, allowing the dissolution of the Montgomery, Otsego, Schoharie Solid Waste Authority (MOSA), was approved by the Senate Committee on Corporations, Authorities, and Commissions, and reported to the floor o

KINGSTON, N.Y. (AP) — Authorities say an employee of New York City's Department of Environmental Protection has been shot to death and a co-worker has been charged with murder. Kingston police say that both men worked in the same area at the DEP's upstate offices in the city, where the shooting happened shortly before 7 a...

A Schoharie farmer has been nominated by Governor Cuomo to become the Commissioner of the New York State Department of Agriculture and Markets. A native of New York state, Richard A. Ball has worked in agriculture his entire life; his grandparents were dairy farmers...