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GUIILDERLAND — A massive search for a body following a CSX report of a man lying in the train tracks Tuesday evening, ended with the discovery that there was no body to be found.





ALBANY — After several delays and postponements, jeweler Peter Spinelli, 50, was sentenced in Albany County Court yesterday for selling fake diamonds and for swiping his customers’ gems and replacing them with fakes.





GUILDERLAND — Corrina Goutos decided to organize a protest, on her own, against the dissection and vivisection of animals in Guilderland classrooms.





GUILDERLAND — Elijah Sharma and Corrina Goutos care about animals and want to stop people’s abuse of them. The pair of Guilderland High School sophomores are co-presidents of Last Chance for Animals GHS.

Principal says
Thefts taken seriously at high school


GUILDERLAND — Thefts come in "spurts" at Guilderland High School, said Principal Michael Piccirillo yesterday. "Students have to be part of the solution."

Soccer club carries on
AG accuses Leggierio of scamming state







ALTAMONT — Sally Ketchum can take one of a couple of routes towards realizing her plan for self-storage units in the village, according to Don Cropsey, the village’s zoning administrator.

Moratorium extended six months
No development in Northeast Quadrant as town looks at zoning



Coughtry mourned
Perpetual Boy Scout, wood-worker, mountain climber





RENSSELAERVILLE — After announcements were made that Cass Residential is changing from a state juvenile detention center to a training facility for state workers, Cass employees are speculating about their future.





ALBANY COUNTY — The day after her son’s funeral, Barbara Kennedy sat at her kitchen table in East Berne and fought back tears.
"I miss him," she said. "I keep waiting for the door to open".He’s not gone yet to me."





Brian Perry arrived early at Albany Medical Center the morning of March 13. He knew the score. He had two healthy kidneys. His friend did not.

Ghosts stay with doctor who was On Call in Hell



Richard Jadick came home from the war in Iraq to a Bronze Star, with a combat V for valor. He thinks of those he served with in Fallujah every day.

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