NEWCOMB — Thursday yielded no signs of a hiker who has been reported missing in the High Peaks since late Saturday, according to the state Department of Environmental Conservation, which is leading the search. Leo Dufour of Vaudreuil-Dorion, Quebec set out alone to hike Allen Mountain, a ...
A message left at the scene of a health insurance executive’s fatal shooting — “deny,” “defend” and “depose” — echoes a phrase commonly used to describe insurer tactics to avoid paying claims. The three words were written on the ammunition a masked gunman used to kill ...
Snow squalls — sudden bursts of heavy snow and gusty winds — created whiteout conditions in parts of the northeast during a storm that brought even more snow to the Great Lakes region Thursday. Two people died from heart attacks after shoveling snow in upstate New York, officials ...
PAUL SMITHS — A crash involving a propane truck on state Route 30 north of Paul Smiths heading toward Malone closed the major roadway on Thursday morning. Saranac Lake Volunteer Fire Department Head Fire Driver Rick Yorkey said the crash happened around 7 a.m. and that firefighters were ...
NEW YORK — UnitedHealthcare’s CEO was shot and killed Wednesday in a “brazen, targeted attack” outside a Manhattan hotel where the health insurer was holding its investor conference, police said, setting off a massive dragnet hours before the annual Rockefeller Center Christmas tree ...
For years, Mei Zhen Xiao worked nonstop for a few days each week caring for an elderly woman who required constant attention. Xiao, a 64-year-old immigrant from China’s Fujian province, slept in a bed next to the patient’s bed and often awoke multiple times in the night. “As soon as I ...