State Police arrested a Tupper Lake woman after a lengthy investigation of alleged abuse at Sunmount Developmental Disabilities Services Office in Tupper Lake, where she worked. What they found, though, Troop B Public Information Officer Trooper Jennifer Fleishman said in a press release, ...

U.S. Rep. Elise Stefanik, along with several other New York congresspeople, wrote a letter to the U.S. Department of Justice Monday asking Assistant Attorney General Eric Dreiband to investigate the state Justice Center, which investigates the Office for People With Developmental Disabilities ...

An incident involving a man released from the state Sunmount facility in Tupper Lake caused tension for several days this week at Adirondack Medical Center in Saranac Lake, as well as for state and local police. He had been evaluated at Sunmount, an institution that’s part of the state ...

TUPPER LAKE — An analysis showing dozens of sex offenders being housed in state group homes has received news coverage from several print and television outlets, but this practice of housing sex offenders in group homes for the developmentally disabled and alongside the general community ...

TUPPER LAKE — State police arrested a Sunmount employee Monday on charges of reported abuse of a resident at the facility run by the state Office for People with Developmental Disabilities. A 33-year-old male Sunmount resident reported that on April 24, around midnight, he was pushed and ...

Since the turn of the millennium, more than 90 percent of Americans have had access to 911 services, but Michael Carey, an advocate for people with developmental disabilities, says that more than 1 million New Yorkers living in OPWDD facilities are left out. On Tuesday, the parents of a ...