On a sunny Saturday morning, the mood inside Bond Funeral Home was gray, with dark clouds of emotion brimming with electricity.

When Crystal Hodge landed at Sojourn House, the women’s shelter run by the Schenectady Community Action Program, she had little money and few material possessions. She had just left an abusive boyfriend and needed a place to stay.

- no Carusone passed into the a r m s o f t h e Lord to join her beloved husband, Matteo Carusone, with grace and courage, with her loving children at her side on Friday, May 17, 2013 at the Teresian House in Albany.

WASHINGTON — A domestic natural gas boom already has lowered U.S. energy prices while stoking fears of environmental disaster. Now U.S. producers are poised to ship vast quantities of gas overseas as energy companies seek permits for proposed export projects that could set off a renewed frenzy of fracking.

SCHENECTADY — Izaiah Brown showed just how special he can be, even without runners breathing down his neck.