An Albany man faces up to 20 years in federal prison for a scheme to defraud banks out of more than $5 million in Albany, Schenectady and Rensselaer counties, officials said Friday.

A soup kitchen that drew attention last week over its controversial meal policies found itself in hot water again Friday for removing all of its bathroom stall doors.

Several people were arrested Friday, accused of taking social services benefits to which they weren’t entitled.

The state’s highest court will soon decide whether a drug suspect’s second trial — one where the main witness never showed up — was proper.

Prosecutors at former state Senate Majority Leader Joseph L. Bruno’s federal fraud trial on Wednesday began outlining his complex relationship with Loudonville businessman Jared E. Abbruzzese.

There was a rescue downtown Wednesday — but it wasn’t your run-of-the-mill rescue.

A city murder suspect faces up to 12 years in state prison after his conviction Wednesday in an unrelated drug case, officials said.

The man who allegedly tried to flee police by jumping off the Cotton Factory Hollow Bridge last week now faces a new charge of attempted murder in a previous incident.

Three teenagers have been arrested for allegedly doing about $8,000 worth of damage at the Central Park tennis courts this past summer, an incident that had prompted some to question the police response.

Former state Senate majority leader Joseph L. Bruno’s outside business consulting wasn’t a significant conflict of interest with his legislative duties, a former state Senate lawyer testified Tuesday at Bruno’s fraud trial.

When the incoming Democratic majority attends its first transition meeting this afternoon in Town Hall, they’ll bring along a familiar face as their counsel.

City unions need to make concessions and accept layoffs as an inevitable product of the economic recession, some city residents said at a public hearing Tuesday evening on the 2010 city budget.

When William Kennedy offered $15,000 to the University at Albany to found a community for writers in 1984, he didn’t realize the chain of events he had set into motion.

Town residents would see a slight decrease in taxes under the 2010 budget proposal.

Duanesburg residents shouldn’t see any appreciable change in their local taxes this year, due to slight reductions in the 2010 budget.