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Judge puts the brakes on bus company updated: Thu Jan 26 2012 17:05:00

A federal judge has ordered a Pennsylvania-based bus company to stop operations after an Albany, New York, TV station reported that the bus line had continued service in violation of a U.S. Department of Transportation order.

Demonstrators fill Albany statehouse as gay marriage battle continuesupdated: Wed Jun 22 2011 13:09:00

Demonstrators gathered in Albany, New York, Wednesday as state lawmakers pored over the details of a bill that could help make New York the nation's sixth and largest state to legalize same-sex marriage.

$202 million lottery ticket sold in New Yorkupdated: Thu Jun 02 2011 19:28:00

Someone in New York is holding a Powerball ticket worth $202 million, according to a New York Lottery official.

Why redistricting reform matters to youupdated: Fri May 13 2011 13:54:00

Across the country, state legislatures are debating redistricting right now. It's a once-a-decade proposition: the opportunity and obligation to redraw political district lines to reflect the latest census.

CNNMoney: Paying for gas forces painful sacrificesupdated: Wed May 04 2011 11:11:00

Aljolynn Sperber, a single mom in Los Angeles, says she can no longer afford to visit her family in Sacramento because of the cost of fuel.

Should lottery winners share with colleagues?updated: Fri Apr 01 2011 14:23:00

If you won $19 million, would you share it with your co-workers?

Mega Million winners claim jackpotupdated: Thu Mar 31 2011 13:59:00

Seven Albany coworkers who won the Mega Million jackpot claim $319 million, a record setting figure for New York state.

7 winners claim Mega Millions ticketupdated: Thu Mar 31 2011 13:59:00

Seven New Yorkers claimed a $319 million jackpot in the multistate Mega Millions lottery Thursday.

New York governor looks to cap school superintendents' salariesupdated: Mon Feb 28 2011 22:51:00

After proposing a $1.5 billion cut in state aid to schools for the upcoming academic year, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo is targeting the salaries of the state's school superintendents.

Australian officials on hunt for whale riderupdated: Mon Sep 27 2010 05:55:00

Word that a teenager climbed aboard a whale for a ride has sent Australian officials to the beach, to warn others not to try such a stunt.

Paladino wields brashness, baggage in New York bidupdated: Tue Sep 21 2010 05:29:00

Carl Paladino is a lot of things -- a multimillionaire businessman, lawyer, family man, devout Catholic and a blunt guy.

Candidate sends stinky messageupdated: Fri Sep 17 2010 06:06:00

Whew!! Something stinks! But before you run to take out the trash, check the stack of mail you just carried inside.

CNNMoney: Budget ax falls on New Yorkupdated: Tue Jan 19 2010 17:15:00

New York's governor unveiled a painful budget plan Tuesday that slashes services, raises fees and takes some unusual steps to close a yawning $7.4 billion fiscal gap.

Stranger's unexpected generosity makes a big impressionupdated: Thu Nov 19 2009 09:02:00

One night shortly after Thanksgiving last year, a deeply crummy mind-set I'd taken on went though an instantaneous reversal. As if a magician had said, "Presto," the New York City landscape likewise flipped from seedy to radiant.

SI.com: Kevin Armstrong: Pitt's Dion Lewis has come out of nowhere to become a top backupdated: Fri Oct 30 2009 07:14:00

ALBANY, N.Y. -- Linda Lewis steps inside her dining room, opens a drawer and shuffles through six DVD cases. It's shortly after 7 p.m. on a recent weeknight and she offers one disclaimer before slipping a shiny disc labeled The Nightmare: Part II into the player. "My husband and I usually only play it to entertain visitors during halftime," she said. "I'm not a fan of some of the songs' words."

SI.com: Hurricanes recall Sutter from AHLupdated: Mon Mar 09 2009 13:37:00

The Carolina Hurricanes recalled center Brandon Sutter for the game against the New York Rangers on Monday night.

3 dead in Louisiana plane crashupdated: Sat Feb 28 2009 14:11:00

A small plane crashed in dense woods in southeastern Louisiana early Saturday, killing all three people aboard, a spokesman for the Livingston Parish Sheriff's Office said.

SI.com: Hurricanes AHL team injured in bus crashupdated: Thu Feb 19 2009 15:40:00

A bus carrying the Albany River Rats flipped onto its side on slick roads in western Massachusetts early Thursday, injuring four players and the minor league hockey team's radio commentator.

With Kennedy out, who's in?updated: Fri Jan 23 2009 14:12:00

CNN's Mary Snow takes a look at the remaining contenders for the New York senate seat vacated by Hillary Clinton.

N.Y. governor names Clinton successorupdated: Fri Jan 23 2009 14:12:00

New York Gov. David Paterson on Friday appointed relatively unknown U.S. Rep. Kirsten Gillibrand to replace Hillary Clinton in the U.S. Senate.

Time.com: States Developing New Grad Gaugeupdated: Wed Jun 18 2008 10:00:00

Federal officials have a solution that could make comparing graduation rates from state to state, or even school to school, easier and more accurate within the next five years

Time.com: Urban Beekeeping is Latest Buzzupdated: Fri Jun 06 2008 14:00:00

City dwellers across the country are rapidly discovering the appeal of urban beekeeping

Time.com: Overcharged: Pumps Cheat Driversupdated: Sat Apr 26 2008 15:00:00

Angry about the price of gas? Just imagine paying for gas you don't get.

SI.com: George Dohrmann: Frozen Four has familial, friendly vibeupdated: Mon Apr 14 2008 11:44:00

DENVER -- Andrew Orpik is only 22, but the junior forward for Boston College can still remember when the Frozen Four had the feel of a backwater event.

Time.com: The Spitzer Scandal: Lust Plus Pride updated: Mon Mar 10 2008 20:00:00

The New York governor, the vaunted enemy of corruption is accused of patronizing a prostitution ring. Will he survive?

Officials: Ecstasy is back, and it's laced with methupdated: Wed Feb 20 2008 13:17:00

Nick, 16, says ecstasy is rampant in his high school, with kids often mixing the drug with meth and other substances.

Ecstasy's pipeline into U.S.updated: Wed Feb 20 2008 13:17:00

CNN's Kelli Arena reports on meth-laced ecstasy coming into the U.S. via Canada.

Time.com: Rappers Linked to Steroid Probeupdated: Mon Jan 14 2008 12:00:00

A number of entertainers were named in connection with an Albany-based steroid investigation, but they are not part of an ongoing criminal probe

SI.com: More names will surface in the Mitchell Report's wakeupdated: Thu Dec 13 2007 15:07:00

Since last summer, Sports Illustrated reporters Luis Fernando Llosa and L. Jon Wertheim have been investigating an alleged illegal steroid distribution network that has implicated pro athletes. Earlier this year the reporters accompanied federal and state drug enforcement agents on a coordinated raid of an Orlando compound pharmacy and a Jupiter, Fla., "anti-aging" clinic that investigators allege conspired to fraudulently prescribe steroids, human growth hormone and other performance enhancing drugs over the Internet.

SI.com: Surreal Seriesupdated: Thu Mar 29 2007 16:49:00

ALBANY, N.Y. -- The storyline entering this week seemed interesting but straightforward: Drive to New York's capital city on Wednesday and chronicle the latest pit stops for one-time Sports Illustrated coverboy Felipe Lopez and his head coach, Micheal Ray Richardson, who was once banned by the NBA due to drug problems. Dogged by cameras and attention for most of their careers, the two men were now seeking a small slice of redemption in relative anonymity with the Albany Patroons, a team that had reached the finals of the Continental Basketball Association playoffs.

Storms across U.S. kill at least 11updated: Thu Mar 01 2007 08:40:00

Storms stampeded throughout the central and southeastern United States on Thursday, leaving at least 11 people dead.

CNNMoney: Raising an eyebrow colonialupdated: Wed Nov 08 2006 10:29:00

Traveling the back roads of the Hudson Valley and western New England, one often sees houses rendered in an unusual and attractive style. They are mostly clapboard with a distinctive look: a row of very short windows across the entire front of their second stories.

Money Magazine: Late-start, self-employed - what's the retirement plan?updated: Thu Oct 12 2006 10:02:00

I'm a 50-year-old self-employed man with no children who makes about $60,000 a year after taxes and has $20,000 in an IRA, $100,000 in home equity and $30,000 in debts. What is the fastest way for me build up my retirement fund? - Kevin B., Albany, New York

Money Magazine: Wine by Webupdated: Fri Jul 01 2005 00:01:00

This May the Supreme Court struck down laws banning direct-to-consumer shipments across state lines by wineries. The court held that Michigan and New York can't bar out-of-state winemakers from shi...

CNNMoney: Stocks mixed at openupdated: Mon Nov 15 2004 09:20:00

Stocks were flat to lower in the early going Monday as investors took in a spate of big merger news and eyed a drop in oil prices.

CNNMoney: Techs make it five advances in a rowupdated: Mon Oct 04 2004 14:19:00

Technology stocks rose for the fifth straight session Monday, boosted again by chipmakers, while Siebel Systems and Hutchinson Technology soared on positive quarterly earnings forecasts.

CNNMoney: Up from the sick bedupdated: Thu May 27 2004 12:31:00

After suffering flu-like symptoms for a long stretch, U.S. stock markets are suddenly looking a lot healthier. How they fare in the coming week could say a lot about whether this is a short-term bounce or a longer-lasting rally.

Feds to start sharing terrorism dataupdated: Tue May 25 2004 17:16:00

State and local police in New York and Vermont will soon have instant access to federal counterterrorism data under an FBI-run pilot program that could become a new weapon in the war on terrorism, officials announced Tuesday.

CNNMoney: Techs dip on HP earnings, CPIupdated: Fri Feb 20 2004 14:17:00

Technology stocks finished mostly lower Friday as mixed results from computer heavyweight Hewlett-Packard Co. weighed on the sector and a report showing a January jump in consumer prices fed inflation fears.

CNNMoney: Buy that on-line? Time to pay taxupdated: Mon Feb 09 2004 09:33:00

If you order something on the Internet, you probably have to pay shipping costs. But at least you don't have to pay sales tax, right?

Fortune: Dream Job: Skydiving Instructorupdated: Mon Mar 18 2002 00:01:00

The reality: "It's not like work," says Bob Rawlins, who started Duanesburg Skydiving Club, just outside Albany, N.Y., after leaving the Army in 1971. "If I get bored, I kick the pilot in the butt ...

Money Magazine: When Laggards Become Leaders As different groups take turns at the top, your best strategy is to shift money bit updated: Tue Jun 01 1999 00:01:00

After trailing the most popular growth stocks for more than four years, value stocks have come to life in the past couple of months. The liveliest of all have been cyclicals--companies highly sensi...

Money Magazine: How To Give Away $1 Millionupdated: Mon Mar 01 1999 00:01:00

It was a simple plan. David Kaczynski wanted to give the $1 million reward he received for turning in his brother, Unabomber Ted, to the victims and families of his brother's crimes. But he was in ...

Fortune: Where Lotto Is Kingupdated: Mon Jan 12 1998 00:01:00

Who buys lottery tickets? Conventional wisdom has it that it's the poor. Not so, according to Scarborough Research. When the market research firm asked people who earned less than $25,000, "When di...

Money Magazine: SMALL INVESTORS GAIN 9% IN 1997'S FIRST SIX MONTHS, DOUBLE THEIR 25-YEAR AVERAGEupdated: Fri Aug 01 1997 00:01:00

In the first half of 1997, the average individual's portfolio grew 9%, according to MONEY's Small Investor Index. That's equivalent to 18.9% on an annual basis--double the average return of the pas...

Money Magazine: WHAT'S NEXT FOR STOCKS, BONDS...AND YOUR MONEY YOU CAN RIDE TODAY'S RISING STOCK MARKET TO A DOUBLE-DIGIT RETURN AND STILL KEEP updated: Tue Jul 01 1997 00:01:00

For more than a year, I've been warning that stocks faced a drop of at least 15%. But the stock market hasn't been listening--share prices have soared over 14% since the beginning of the year. Stoc...

Money Magazine: CLINTON'S RE-ELECTION COULD TRIGGER A STOCK PULLBACK OF 10% OR MORE IN LATE '96updated: Mon Jan 01 1996 00:01:00

RIGHT BEFORE THE 1992 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION, this column named the stocks we believed would benefit most from a Clinton victory. Our picks included waste-management businesses such as WMX Technolog...

Money Magazine: A STRONG DOLLAR COULD MAKE YOU RICHER IN THE LONG RUN BUT POORER NEXT YEARupdated: Wed Nov 01 1995 00:01:00

THE U.S. DOLLAR IS FINALLY SHOWING SOME backbone. After hitting dismal lows in April, the greenback has rallied against many leading foreign currencies--rebounding 19% vs. the Japanese yen, for exa...

Money Magazine: TOURING THE TOP 10 TEN BEST ALL OFFER STUDENTS SOMETHING SPECIAL--FROM INDEPENDENCE AT NEW COLLEGE TO GREAT updated: Tue Sep 05 1995 00:01:00

Seven of money's 10 best college values are public schools, up from six a year ago. This is great news for students who live in the same states as these schools, because their families will pay bar...

Money Magazine: A FINANCIAL SURVIVAL GUIDE FOR COLLEGE STUDENTS TEAR OUT THIS SPECIAL SECTION TO TAKE TO COLLEGE. IT TELLS HOW TO updated: Tue Sep 05 1995 00:01:00

Congratulations. You've done it. You've endured your high school classes, studied hard--well, at least hard enough--and you've not only graduated but also are heading to a college of your choice. A...

Money Magazine: HOW WE RANK THE COLLEGESupdated: Tue Sep 05 1995 00:01:00

WHILE OTHER PUBLICATIONS SIMPLY ATTEMPT TO TELL you which colleges are the strongest academically, we set out to identify the 100 best college buys--the schools that deliver the highest-quality edu...

Fortune: MAPINFO BUILDERS TRANSPORT ARDEN FASTENERSupdated: Mon Feb 06 1995 00:01:00

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Money Magazine: WHY STOCKS WILL BOUNCE BACK DESPITE TODAY'S GLOOM AND DOOMupdated: Sun Jan 01 1995 00:01:00

No sooner had we shipped our upbeat 1995 Forecast issue three weeks ago than the stock market plummeted 150 points, former associate attorney general Webster Hubbell shook the White House by coppin...

Money Magazine: Firms that invest in themselves promise big profitsupdated: Thu Sep 01 1994 00:01:00

A recent study of companies that repurchased their own shares during the 1980s produced some eye-opening findings that may point the way to big profits. Professionals have long debated whether stoc...

Fortune: How to keep Bill Gates from smoking, flunking student loans, certified lunacy, and other matters. ONLY IN AMERICA (Cont'd)updated: Mon Jun 14 1993 00:01:00

ALBANY -- Brooklyn Assemblyman Daniel Feldman wants to make it against the law to discriminate against fat people. Feldman ((is proposing)) a first-time-ever ban on ''weight and height bigotry'' --...

Money Magazine: MONEY RATES THE 30 DOW STOCKS The experts say it's time to buy McDonald's, AT&T, Du Pont and Caterpillar. Check up on Philipupdated: Sat May 01 1993 00:01:00

LONG-TERM INVESTORS can't afford to ignore the 30 multibillion-dollar companies in the Dow Jones industrial average. In addition to accounting for almost one of every four dollars invested in stock...

Money Magazine: OUR NEW GUIDE updated: Sat May 01 1993 00:01:00

I have just finished reading your new special publication -- MONEY for Kids, the ''stay in school'' guide. It is certainly a wonderful contribution to our society. Cheryl Kipp Prairie Village, Kans...

Fortune: TOO MUCH WORK = POOR GRADESupdated: Mon Apr 05 1993 00:01:00

Working after school is one of the verities of American life, right up there with baseball and apple pie. But while there's nothing wrong with teaching Junior the value of a buck or Janie self-reli...

Fortune: WEEKEND WARRIORS: JUST FOR FUN updated: Mon Nov 30 1992 00:01:00

Hundreds of thousands of weekend warriors also wear biker regalia and strut the outlaw strut. These nonconformist men -- and some women too -- jump on their Harleys as soon as the five o'clock whis...

Money Magazine: BUT SAVERS WON'T GET ANY DEALS SOONupdated: Mon Jun 01 1992 00:01:00

Although interest rates tend to rise as the economy bounces back, depositors shouldn't get their hopes up this time. Rates on certificates of deposit aren't likely to climb significantly anytime so...

Money Magazine: TODAY'S BEST WAY TO INVEST With stocks flying dangerously high, this little-known strategy reduces your risk. And it outperformsupdated: Sun Dec 01 1991 00:01:00

It's party time again on Wall Street, and small investors are rushing to get in on the fun. Blue-chip stocks have gained more than 24% over the past 12 months, and major market indexes recently set...

Money Magazine: REGIONAL BROKERS PICK THEM FROM THEIR OWN BACKYARDSupdated: Fri Nov 01 1991 00:01:00

With well-known blue-chip stocks trading at dizzying prices of 20.8 times estimated 1991 earnings, wise investors are hunting for more down-to-earth values among first-rate regional companies overl...

Money Magazine: THE MONEY SMALL INVESTOR INDEX BONDS OUTPACE STOCKS DURING THE RECESSION updated: Thu Aug 01 1991 00:01:00

Since the recession began just over a year ago, bonds have earned 9%, beating stocks, up 8%. Altogether, MONEY magazine's Small Investor Index has increased by 8.3%, or $3,449. Bonds usually outpac...

Money Magazine: MONEY DATELINE Eight great values for weekend winter getawaysupdated: Tue Jan 01 1991 00:01:00

The trend toward shorter but sweeter trips (see Travel Wise, June 1990) is going strong -- three or fewer nights was the average for more than 50% of 1989 vacations. Add that demand to the slowdown...

Money Magazine: America's 10 Best College Buys Not all are public -- some aren't even cheap -- but they give good educational value.updated: Mon Sep 10 1990 00:01:00

The marketplace for higher education, like securities markets, has pockets of opportunity: schools that, like undervalued stocks, are worth more than you have to pay for them. This fact was verifie...

Money Magazine: For the Record How past Money picks have prosperedupdated: Fri Sep 01 1989 00:01:00

We recently opened our mailbag to find this letter from reader Lin Thompson of Albany, Ga.: ''I've done an analysis of your Stock of the Month selections for January 1988 through May 1989. During t...

Fortune: Protection for grunts, left on the prairie, a write-down in the Soviet Union, and other matters. LEANINGupdated: Mon Aug 28 1989 00:01:00

A kindred spirit in Albany wrote in the other day, enclosing a clipping from the New York Times and raising the exact same question to which your correspondent would have gravitated had he seen the...

Money Magazine: Check It Out Where to inquire about cash owed your family updated: Wed Feb 01 1989 00:01:00

Here is where to check out whether you are owed any unclaimed treasure from your past. In pursuing such funds, apply not only to your present state of residence but also to all the others where you...

Money Magazine: AMERICA'S BEST CITIES updated: Sat Oct 01 1988 00:01:00

As the mayor of Albany, N.Y., I was dumbfounded and disappointed to read the different newspaper accounts highlighting MONEY's second annual rating of ''The Best Places to Live in America'' ((Augus...

Money Magazine: Beyond Dollar-Cost Averaging These turbo-charged strategies can boost your returns. And by keeping you from investing when priceupdated: Fri Jul 01 1988 00:01:00

Like alchemists searching for the philosopher's stone, investors are always looking for a system that will transmute their investments into big profits. While no such magic formula exists, there ar...

Money Magazine: The Pro's Picks Value among the giantsupdated: Sun May 01 1988 00:01:00

''If you buy the largest stocks when they have been beaten down and everyone on Wall Street hates them, they usually have no place to go but up,'' says Michael B. O'Higgins, a 41-year-old money man...

Money Magazine: PIT BULLS AND PUSSYCATS OF INVESTMENT YEAR 1987updated: Mon Feb 01 1988 00:01:00

Compared with a shattering 508-point plunge in the Dow, a 63% change in the price of a parking space hardly seems a tremor -- except that we're not talking quarters for a parking meter. 1987 was th...

Fortune: The Case for Palaver, A Righteous Road to Big Bucks, Genetics in Albany, and Other Matters. Great Moments in Niche Marketingupdated: Mon May 11 1987 00:01:00

''Everybody says, 'Why didn't I think of that?' '' Arlene Houser said . . . Houser is president of New Williamsburg Inc., a newly formed . . . company ((selling)) caskets that look a great deal dif...

Fortune: The Case for Palaver, A Righteous Road to Big Bucks, Genetics in Albany, and Other Matters. Testing . . . Testingupdated: Mon May 11 1987 00:01:00

''Kindly commandeer a college-level text on genetics,'' plaintively beseeched Keeping Up's senior policy analyst the other day, ''as the present expositor is confessedly hazy about the role played ...

Fortune: The Case for Palaver, A Righteous Road to Big Bucks, Genetics in Albany, and Other Matters. Only in America (cont'd)updated: Mon May 11 1987 00:01:00

A man who claimed he was denied membership in a volunteer fire company in Buffalo because he wore Scottish kilts has settled his lawsuit for $1,600. The South Lockport Volunteer Fire Company agreed...

Money Magazine: THE ADVICE: Raise your own capital updated: Sun Feb 01 1987 00:01:00

Envisioning a future as proprietors of a bed-and-breakfast inn that could evolve into a lodge for cross-country skiers and biathletes, the Schreiners need counsel on raising the necessary capital. ...

Fortune: How to Eat a Salad, Forgetting the Maine, Tiny Tots as Stalking Horses, and Other Matters. Only in America (cont'd)updated: Mon Apr 01 1985 00:01:00

A group of handicapped hunters and fishermen has filed suit in federal district court in Albany charging that the state is violating their civil rights by prohibiting the use of motor vehicles in w...

Fortune: POLITICIAN-PROOF DEFENSE STOCKS Their prices have wilted amid expectations of budget cutting, but some programs will escape the updated: Mon Feb 04 1985 00:01:00

Congress may be ready to trim defense spending, but Wall Street has already wielded its ax--the stocks of many defense contractors are down sharply from their recent highs. FORTUNE agrees with the ...

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