Check your tickets! There were two tickets sold in the Capital Region at different convenience stores each worth $50,000 from the Saturday, December 30th Powerball drawing!
A city in New York will allow its police department to deploy drones as first responders. This will make them one of the few police departments in the U.S. to use drones as first responders, rather than just for surveillance and rescue.
On July 19th, the New York Lottery Powerball jackpot was $1.08 billion. Although there was only one winner from California who got the billion, there was an Upstate New Yorker who cashed in too.
There is a music store that has been in Schenectady for more than fifty years and it was announced that they will be playing their final notes and closing forever.