Judge Matthew Sypniewski presides over opening arguments on the murder and manslaughter trial for Persia Nelson. The prosecution will continue laying out its case before Sypniewski on Thursday.

A Schenectady man has been sentenced to the maximum possible — 52 years to life in prison — for a 2023 murder of a man on ...

The man facing charges in a horrific Schenectady house fire that killed three children and a father more than 12 years ago could face the death penalty. Edward Leon was arrested Thursday in connection ...

The 52-year-old is accused of starting a fire at a house on Hulett Street in Schenectady in 2013, killing father David Terry and three of his children. Old text messages, phone call records and ...

SCHENECTADY — A Schenectady County Court jury Tuesday convicted a man in the prolonged beating death of a woman inside the Imperial Motel in Schenectady last year, prosecutors said. The jury found ...

A Schenectady man pleaded guilty in Albany County Court to manslaughter in the shooting death of Dewitt Miller. This was Albany’s first homicide of 2025. As part of the plea bargain, Leonardo Guzman, ...

SCHENECTADY - Upset over an argument with her boyfriend, an angry Persia Nelson grabbed her nearly 11-month-old daughter, swaddled the child in a blanket and stormed off from a Campbell Avenue home ...

Just days after Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro was captured by the U.S. military, some people are rejoicing while others are protesting. Some locals in the Capital Region who are originally from ...