 | Spending Cuts Agreed On; Still Waiting for Votes
$1 billion in spending cuts has been agreed upon. That includes $420 million for '08-'09 and $600 million for '09-'10. The Assembly was planning on voting late into the night Tuesday, the Senate will come back Wednesday.
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 | Burglary Arrest
A Greenport woman is accused of stealing money from the home of her neighbor, who died.
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 | Lawmakers return to Capitol for special session
State lawmakers come back to Albany for a special session to make cuts to the budget that could ease the deficit by hundreds of millions of dollars.
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 | Veepstakes May Come Down to the Wire
The Democratic National Convention begins on Monday but Senator Barack Obama still hasn't picked his running mate. Many are expecting an announcement before the end of this week.
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 | Cops: Mom Dropped Newborn and Then Drove Away Drunk
A five-week-old Greenwich girl is recovering after police say her mother dropped her in a driveway and then drove away, narrowly missing the newborn with her car.
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 | Lane Closure
A traffic advisory for the Route 9P bridge.
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 | Pothole Repairs
Crews in Albany are working to fix an 8 foot deep pothole that opened up Monday afternoon.
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 | Accidental Drowning
A young man from Ravena has drowned, in the Catskill Creek.
At this point, police are calling it an accident.
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 | Family of Murder Victim Emotional at Verdict
The family of a murdered Troy High football player is overcome with emotion in and outside the Rensselaer County Courthouse after hearing the jury's verdict and FOX23 was the only TV crew at the verdict.  Video
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 | Special Legislative session preview
On the eve of a special session of the State Legislature, Governor David Paterson unveiled a new council of economic advisors, including a Nobel Prize winning economist and a former US Treasury Secretary, to help the state work on its less-than-stellar economic condition.
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