Two New Scotland residents are dead after an apparent murder-suicide. 

One difficulty school administrators often face when a child is murdered outside of school is that there is often a period of time when police are not forthcoming about what has happened and who has been harmed. 

GUILDERLAND —  Family and educators describe a relatively isolated young woman who struggled with depression, her child with social challenges but no diagnosis of any learning disabilities, and a man who loved them both but was in declining health.

Cable crime channel Investigation Discovery re-examined the evidence in Erick Westervelt’s trial and conviction.

Now 20, VanAlstyne is facing a sentence of 18 years to life, scheduled to appear in court in January.

ALBANY COUNTY — Five-year-old Kenneth White was murdered almost a year ago, just a few weeks before he and his family were scheduled to receive presents, food, and clothing from the Albany County Sheriff’s Hilltown Christmas program.

GUILDERLAND — Police in Mississippi and Texas have been as stymied as police here in solving brutal murders of Chinese families.

Benjamin Rauf, the grandson of a Westerlo dairy farmer, is accused of murdering a classmate from the Temple University law school.