The Times-Union reports that a hacker stole $3 million from a Duanesburg Central School bank account and so far, only $2.5 milion has been recovered.
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The Daily Star reports that an Otsego County Board of Representaves committee voted to recommend the county get out of the Montgomery-Otsego-Schoharie Solid Waste Management Authority.
The Star said Administration Committee Chairman James Johnson believes the issue will be considered by the full board early next year. The 25-year contract that binds MOSA’s members together expires in 2014. There has been some consideration of getting out early.
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WNYT reports that an elderly Broome woman was rescued from her burning home Tuesday evening. The five occurred at about 5 p.m. at a home on Mattice road, near Livingstonville. Fire officials told WNYT that neighbor Martin Livingston got the 90-year-old woman out through a window.
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Evelyn Bush, 71, of Seward, died Tuesday morning after she and her husband, Larry Bush, were pulled from an icy pond on their property.
The two fell into the water around 9:30 a.m. A Fromire Road neighbor tried to rescue them, called 911, and helped troopers pull the two from the pond. Larry Bush was treated and released from Bassett Hospital, Cooperstown, but Evelyn Bush was pronounced dead at Cobleskill Hospital.
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Updated 21 December 2009
Bat populations have been reduced by more than 90 percent in caves across three states, by the state Department of Environmental Conservation reports. The decline has been linked to a fungus infection called white nose syndrome, first discovered in Albany and Schoharie county caves in 2006.
In 23 caves surveyed -- four in Vermont and Massachusetts, the rest in Albany and Schoharie counties -- about 4,800 bats were found last winter. That is down from more than 55,000 bats in those same caves before the disease outbreak. The figures include little brown bats, big brown bats and Indiana bats -- the last an endangered species.
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The Hartford Courant says the die-off is so severe that federal wildlife officials consider it "the most precipitous decline of North American wildlife caused by infectious disease in recorded history."
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Fired Dean Says Coby Exploiting Blacks
Two More Arrested in Murder of Sharon Man
Troopers Say Death in Sharon Was Murder
State Finds $3 Million in Errors in MCS Books
Cobleskillian Wins $1 Million in Lottery

