A top official with the Republican Party's New York state organization is leaving his post to take a job as an Albany lobbyist.

Jury selection is under way this morning in the trial of a 21-year-old man accused of leading a state trooper on a deadly high-speed chase outside of Syracuse last spring.

A weekend crash on Route 20 has claimed the life of a cattle farmer from Brimfield.

A brawl in the stands at a youth hockey game left a central New York man seriously injured and two women charged with rioting.

Three people — including a woman and her one-year-old son — were killed yesterday in a fire that gutted their Hudson Valley home.

Police in Toronto say former Norwich University hockey captain Mike Serba remains in critical condition today after he was severely beaten over the weekend.

The Vermont Supreme Court says it agrees that the revenues should be reduced for a small telephone company serving Rutland and Addison counties.

Some parents in Chittenden County are exploring establishing a children's museum.

It looks like Vermont hunters had a better deer rifle season this year than they did last year.

Teachers in a school district in northern Windham County are asking the school board to resume negotiations.

The US dollar gained value against the Japanese yen at the end of the Tokyo business day Monday.

The Springfield Finance Control Board meets this morning to discuss the ramifications of a judge's order last week that the city stop collecting a trash-removal fee of 90 dollars per container.

The state plans to file a lawsuit today against seven companies involved in the Big Dig in response to a fatal tunnel collapse earlier this year.

The Roman Catholic Boston Archdiocese is considering closing two more parishes.

Frank Doyle made 28 saves as the Lowell Devils defeated the Providence Bruins 2-to-0.

A man charged with running over and killing his friend after driving her home from work will be in court today for a felony hearing.

A neighbor of Bill and Hillary Clinton was remembered by family and friends at a memorial yesterday — a week after she was shot in a mysterious roadside attack.

A woman was shot as she walked out of her church yesterday.

Attorneys will make closing statements today in the Houston retrial of a trucker accused in the nation's deadliest human smuggling attempt.

Police say a Syracuse man has stabbed his stepfather with a samurai sword.