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Albany Mayor Kathy Sheehan and Police Chief Eric Hawkins gave an update Monday on efforts to enhance public safety.
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After months of discussion, the Saratoga Springs city council has passed legislation that would make it a crime to carry a gun while intoxicated.
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Albany City Auditor Dorcey Applyrs hosted an online conversation this week with Baltimore's deputy mayor to share and compare the cities’ experiences with gun violence.
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Officials representing law enforcement agencies and city officials gathered at Albany Police headquarters Monday afternoon to address a rash of recent gun violence.
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Albany Police say two people died in separate incidents this weekend.
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Remembrances continue to pour in for Kaylin Gillis, the 20-year-old Saratoga County woman who was fatally shot when she and a group of friends turned down a wrong driveway in rural Washington County Saturday night.
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"Bloodbath Nation" by Paul Auster traces centuries of America’s use and abuse of guns, from the violent displacement of the native population to the forced enslavement of millions, to the bitter divide between embattled gun control and anti-gun control camps that has developed over the past 50 years and the mass shootings that dominate the news today. Auster's text is interwoven with Spencer Ostrander’s haunting photographs of the sites of more than thirty mass shootings in all parts of the country.
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A neighborhood meeting in Albany Monday focused on the recent uptick in gun violence.
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As concerns about public safety rise throughout Albany's Pine Hills Neighborhood, the Common Council and Police Chief Eric Hawkins are responding to public outcry.
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A homicide in Albany’s Pine Hills neighborhood Friday is drawing the outrage of a Common Councilor who is calling for the police chief to resign. The chief tells WAMC the rhetoric is unhelpful.