Nearly five dozen Rotterdam Junction property owners have filed a civil claim against New York, claiming the state Canal Corp.’s failure to adequately prepare for high-water events along the Mohawk River led them to incur more than $4.6 million in damages from flooding caused by Tropical Storm Irene in August 2011.

Helmeted rescue workers raced Tuesday to complete the search for survivors and the dead in the Oklahoma City suburb where a mammoth tornado destroyed countless homes, cleared lots down to bare red earth and claimed 24 lives, including those of nine children.

A large turnout of voters rejected the Niskayuna Central School District budget Tuesday, which was the only spending plan in the county proposing to raise the local tax levy above the state tax cap.

Law enforcement boats plied the south end of the Great Sacandaga Lake on Monday, searching for two Broadalbin fishermen who went missing over the weekend.