A Greenwich mother dropped her 5-year-old infant daughter headfirst onto a sidewalk in Greenwich on Friday and then drove off drunk.

Krista L. Cherry, 18, has been charged with second-degree assault, a felony, endangering the welfare of a child and driving while intoxicated, both misdemeanors. She was obtained and charged for the crimes after a one of her neighbors called Cambridge-Greenwich Police after witnessing the incident and retrieving the child.

The child, Madison Brown, suffered severe head and facial injuries, but they are not deemed life threatening.

Her boyfriend Brandon M. Brown, 21, has been charged for endangering the welfare of a child and unlawfully dealing with a child, both misdemeanors, for allegedly providing Cherry with alcohol.

After her arrest, Cherry was arraigned and sent to Washington County Jail for lack of $500 cash bail.

Schuylerville woman arrested for supplying alcohol to underage drinkers

An alleged rape at an underage drinking party  led to the arrest of a Schuylerville woman Tuesday for allegedly of supplying alcohol at the party.

Suzanne Frauendorfer, 51, has been charged with four counts of first-degree unlawfully dealing with a child, all misdemeanors.

Her arrest comes after Paul Gunya, of Gansevoort, was charged with first-degree rape after allegedly committing the crime at the party.

Frauendorfer is scheduled to appear in Hebron Town Court on Sept. 3.

Two dead after Route 9 crash

An accident involving a tractor-trailer and a minivan on Route 9 near Exit 17 Friday left two dead.

The accident that shut down a section of Route 9 and the Exit 17N entrance and exit ramps occurred after a 2005 minivan pulled out in front of a tractor-trailer truck after the driver of the van, Charles Tierney, 71, failed to yield right of way as a mack truck made a left turn out of a parking lot and struck the van.

Tierney was pronounced dead at the scene by Saratoga County Cornoner Thomas Salvadore and his wife, Anna K. Tierney was pronounced dead after being taken to Glens Falls Hospital.

Exercise rider dies after fall at Oklahoma Track

A former jockey who was working as an exercise rider at the Oklahoma Training Track died Tuesday after falling off a horse Monday morning.

Parker Buckley III, 40, was reportedly conscious following the fall.  He was taken to Saratoga Hospital where doctors  found blood on his brain. Buckley was then transported to Albany Medical Center where he died Tuesday.

Rape suspect allegedly used 'date rape' drug

A sexual abuse case has led authorities to believe the accused used a form of date rape drug to subdue his victim.

Artem D. Isay, 25, of 368 Broadway, was charged Wednesday with first-degree sexual abuse, a class-D felony. Isay's arrest is in connection with an incident that occurred July 5 on Caroline Street., in which, a woman claims she had two drinks, but failed to recall anything else from the night.

Isay is currently being held in Saratoga County jail in connection with the crime. Police are still awaiting the results of a toxicology test.

The date rape drug is often used in situations of sexual assault. There are different forms of date rape drugs, but they commonly have sedative, hypnotic, dissociative, and amnesiac effects. It is often added to food or drink to facilitate rape.

State Legislature cuts $1 billion in spending

Gov. David Paterson and the New York State Legislature approved cutting $1 billion in state spending over the course of the next two years Tuesday night.

Paterson had originally looked to cut $600 million from the current $122 billion budget, but was able to manage $427 million - cutting the budget deficit from $6.4 billion to $5.4 billion. The cuts equal less than 1 percent of the current budget, but are expected to reduce growth.

“Too often in the past, our State's failure to respond quickly to fiscal crises has only made our budget problems worse and the solutions we’ve had to implement more painful,” Gov. Paterson said in a press release. “Today, we are taking a different approach. Rather than simply hoping that our struggling economy improves, all sides worked together in the spirit of cooperation and took action to reduce spending. I want to thank my partners in the Legislature for working productively with me during this special session.”

State officials still project $20 billion in deficits over the next three years