Saratoga County District Attorney Karen Heggen

The Saratoga County man who pleaded guilty to kidnapping and sexually assaulting a 9-year-old girl from Moreau Lake State Park was sentenced today.

A judge has dismissed the indictment of an off-duty Vermont sheriff’s deputy involved in a shootout in Saratoga Springs in November. The prosecuting Saratoga County District Attorney says she will bring the case to a new grand jury.

A grand jury this week indicted four people for their roles in a November shootout in downtown Saratoga Springs.

A stalemate between city officials in Saratoga Springs and the Saratoga County District Attorney over the investigation into a November shootout on Broadway continues.

Republican Saratoga County District Attorney Karen Heggen is running for re-election after eight years in the position. Her Democratic challenger, Michael Phillips, says he brings private sector experience to the table, and also accuses the incumbent DA of losing her grip on the office.

A judge has denied an appeal by the Saratoga County District Attorney’s office in a case involving a prominent Black Lives Matter organizer and Schenectady city school board member stemming from a July 2021 protest in downtown Saratoga Springs.

The Saratoga County District Attorney is criticizing the Saratoga Springs Public Safety Commissioner after the Commissioner said he wanted to discipline a city officer who declined to press charges against three white teenagers accused of badly beating a Black fellow student in February.

Saratoga County District Attorney Karen Heggen has appealed a city judge’s decision last month to dismiss charges against a prominent Capital Region activist stemming from a protest in Saratoga Springs last summer.

Earlier this week, a judge dismissed charges stemming from a protest in Saratoga Springs last summer against a prominent Capital Region activist. The defendant is praising the decision while the Saratoga District Attorney says it could set a precedent for others to violate the law.

New criminal justice laws will be on the books in New York next year. But several Saratoga County state and local Republican officials are pushing for a…