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Retired Albany FBI agent recalls career, urges women to join the bureau FacebookTwitterEmail 1of9 Retired FBI Special Agent Joanne Q. Sills retired last June after spending 29 years in the FBI, all in Albany. Sills, who was involved in several high-profile cases, encourages women to consider joining the bureau as agents.courtesy Joanne Q. SillsShow MoreShow Less 2of9Photo from video: Wanda Kaczynski and her son David Kaczynski as they leave Wanda Kaczynski s Glenville apartment early on April 4,1996. They are the mother and brother of Theodore Kaczynski. (WRGB video)WRGB VIDEOShow MoreShow Less 3of9 4of9 Winter, by artist Gari Melchers, is displayed during an FBI press conference where it was announced that the artwork, which was taken by Nazis in 1933, would be returned to its rightful owners on Thursday Oct. 15, 2020, in Albany, N.Y. The FBI recently seized the painting from an art museum in Canajoharie, part of an international effort to recover artwor ....
From pension help to federal regulations, unions welcome the Biden Administration Comes as various labor battles continue across Capital Region FacebookTwitterEmail Unions are encouraged and pleased so far with how the Biden Administration is treating them.SAUL LOEB/Getty ROTTERDAM Tom Baum and about 16,000 other retired Teamsters got some good news recently. The 29 percent pension cut they suffered three and a half years ago is being restored as part of President Joe Biden’s $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan designed to pull the nation’s economy out of the economic mess created by the COVID-19 pandemic. The massive Rescue Plan contains $82 billion to help shore up pensions in general. ....
Luther Forest isn t just semiconductors anymore Developer would add warehouses, distribution centers to the mix FacebookTwitterEmail 3 1of3Buy PhotoExterior of GlobalFoundries on Friday, July 31, 2020, in Matla, N.Y. U.S. Sen. Charles Schumer called for swift Senate passage of the National Defense Authorization Act. The legislation aims to reduce reliance on foreign semiconductor manufacturing by increasing federal investment into U.S. semiconductor production facilities. (Will Waldron/Times Union)Will Waldron/Albany Times UnionShow MoreShow Less 2of3Buy PhotoExterior fo Fab 8 facility at GlobalFoundries on Friday, March 23, 2018, in Malta, N.Y. (Will Waldron/Times Union)Will WaldronShow MoreShow Less MALTA With hopes of attracting a second massive semiconductor plant to Luther Forest fading, town officials are entertaining other proposals for further development of the 1,400-acre technology campus. ....
SCHODACK, N.Y. â On Friday, Jan. 29, at approximately 12:24 a.m. Schodack Police responded to an address on Brookview Station Road for a reported domestic disturbance. Upon arrival patrols noted they discovered forced entry into the residence, an assault victim and information that a toddler in the residence had been taken from the scene by her father. Shortly thereafter a radio broadcast was initiated for the surrounding jurisdictions to be on the lookout for the suspectâs vehicle which was occupied by three suspects and the child. - Advertisement - Alert deputies from the Columbia County Sheriff s Office were able to locate the suspect vehicle on the Taconic State Parkway in Columbia County. While making a traffic stop of the vehicle officers say a man fled and a search was initiated. ....
Rensselaer, Schodack want to keep their politicians at home FacebookTwitterEmail 3 1of3Rensselaer Mayor Republican Michael Stammel in his office at city hall Wednesday, Feb. 19, 2020.Lauren Stanforth/Times UnionShow MoreShow Less 2of3Buy PhotoRensselaer County Executive Steve McLaughlin presents his proposed 2020 county budget at the Rensselaer County Legislature on Friday, Oct. 18, 2019 in Troy, N.Y. (Lori Van Buren/Times Union)Lori Van Buren/Albany Times UnionShow MoreShow Less RENSSELAER – Rensselaer County’s 2021 election campaign cycle has opened early with Democrats in Rensselaer and Republicans in Schodack working on local laws to make their political opponents commit solely to serving locally and not running for the County Legislature. ....