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By HEATHER NELLIS Recorder News Staff FULTONVILLE — Walking through the servants’ entrance of the mansion at the Starin Place Thursday, Tribes Hill resident Janet Hayes said she was walking in the footsteps of her great grandparents.  Hayes said her ancestors were indentured servants at the 1877 Victorian estate that once ...

By HEATHER NELLIS Recorder News Staff TOWN OF AMSTERDAM -- A Target employee and his girlfriend were arrested Thursday for using counterfeit money in an alleged scheme that netted the couple $800 in late April, according to investigators with the Montgomery County Sheriff's Office. Ethan M. Whitman, 20, of 176 Blanchard Road, Gloversvi ...

TOWN OF FLORIDA -- At approximately 2:24 p.m. Thursday, a trooper assigned to the state police's Fultonville barracks stopped a vehicle on the New York State Thruway in the town of Florida for speeding. Upon approach, a news release said the trooper observed a .40 caliber Glock pistol on the front seat of the vehicle. The driver, Richard ...

BY FRANCIS DRAKE King Features Syndicate For Friday, May 18, 2012 ARIES (March 21 to April 19) Double-check all your financial negotiations today. Something fuzzy could be present. You might not have all the facts, or the facts you do have might be faulty. TAURUS (April 20 to May 20) Your idealism is aroused today. Quite likely, ...

NEW YORK (AP) -- In one of the largest initial public offerings of stock ever, Facebook said Thursday that it is raising at least $16 billion for itself and its early investors in a transaction that values the world's definitive online social network at $104 billion. It's a big windfall for a company that began eight years ago with no way ...

Docs shed new light on Martin killing ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) -- Trayvon Martin had marijuana in his system. He was shot through the heart at close range. George Zimmerman had a broken nose, bruises and bloody cuts on the back of his head. The lead investigator wanted to charge Zimmerman with manslaughter in the weeks after the shooting but was over ...

DEAR ABBY: I am a divorced man with a live-in girlfriend I'll call Donna. Her two boys also live with us. Donna's older son will graduate from high school this year, and she has planned a party that her mother and other family members will attend from out of state. My daughter, "Sara," is graduating from the same high school. Sara ...

By JAIME STUDD Recorder News Staff FONDA -- Fonda-Fultonville's outgoing Superintendent James Hoffman has a lot on his plate these days. In addition to having to re-craft a district budget following Tuesday night's defeat at the polls, he's is trying to broker not one, but two, smooth transitions in the coming months. In order ...