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Preston Scagnelli, 17, covertly filmed a Tedra Cobb campaign event in May.

The Palace Theater sits right in the heart of downtown Lake Placid. It's a classic movie house with vintage architecture, a real theater organ. It's a cultural institution in the Adirondacks. This week one of the pillars of that institution whose family has owned the theater for decades, Reg Clark, passed away at age 89. Peter Crowley, managing editor of the Adirondack Daily Enterprise, shares a remembrance with Martha Foley.

A private company in Plattsburgh is working quickly to help the homeless and others in need. MHAB Enterprises is buying Clinton Community College's underused dorm rooms and converting them into transitional housing. The first tenants are expected to arrive in December.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo said he's ordered his Department of Financial Services to reject requests by health insurance companies to raise rates in response to actions by the Trump administration to weaken the Affordable Care Act.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo is enjoying solid support from the leaders of most of the major unions in New York as he runs for a third term in office. But Cuomo's relationship with organized labor was not always so sunny.

Questions about a 17-year-old's ties to Stefanik go unanswered.

Just how clean is Upper Saranac Lake? Scientists at Paul Smith's College's Adirondack Watershed Institute are in the best position to answer that question. They've been gathering data about the lake's water quality since 1989.Upper Saranac Lake is one of the most intensely studied lakes in the 6-million-acre Adirondack Park, which has thousands of lakes and ponds and more than 30,000 miles of rivers and streams. The AWI collects data from a network of 94 lakes and 25 streams, covering 40 percent of the park's watershed area.

The former Speaker of the New York State Assembly, Sheldon Silver, was sentenced to seven years in prison Friday, after being convicted for a second time on federal corruption charges.

From 2009 to 2016, the Defense Department recruited more than 10,000 non-citizens into the armed forces. Now some say they're being discharged without explanation.

Lots of heat and sun, and just enough rain has given most tomato plants are real boost.