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ACSO: Cocaine overdose kills Albany County inmate, Schumer asks FTC to investigate high electric bills, buzzing the Capitol: totally legal

The Albany County Sheriff's Office says an Albany County jail inmate died on Wednesday from cardiac arrest due to a cocaine overdose. The inmate had been at the jail since March 8 and had not had any recent visitors. [TU][News 10][WNYT][TWCN]

An Albany County woman died on Monday in a car accident when her daughter accidentally stepped on the gas instead of the break as the woman was helping to guide her daughter out of a driveway, according to Guilderland police.[TU]

The body of a Pittstown man was discovered in a hole in the ice behind the Strong Brothers Sports Dome in Pittstown on Wednesday. Police say Matthew Philpott slipped and fell while he was checking on a drain pump near the pond. [TU][WNYT]

The sale of the Scolite property in South Troy will be on the Troy City Council agenda tonight in spite of an ongoing FBI inquiry into the project. [TU]

Said one student about the violin, as he asked Schenectady's school board not to cut music programs from the schools: "it has changed my life." The district will get an increase in state aid of 7.7 percent this year, but it will go toward helping fill a projected $10.3 million budget gap. [TU][TWCN]

Niskayuna's school board is trying to determine how it can best use an extra $530,000 in state aid that the district received and was not expecting. [Gazette]

Troy's school district has adopted a $106.8 million school budget that keeps the tax levy under the state cap.[TU]

Though the state budget passed this week included some adjustments to the state's implementation of the Common Core, some state legislators are looking at making further changes. [TWCN]

A plan to move Bishop Maginn High School was announced to parents in a letter late last week in an apparent effort to head off a breaking TU story about the plan -- just ahead of re-registration for the next year. [TU]

According to a report out of the Brookings Institute, the Capital Region was ninth out of the 100 largest metropolitan areas in overall "performance" during the recession, but stumbled while the rest of the nation was recovering. [WNYT]

Chuck Schumer is calling on the Federal Trade Commission to investigate what his office calls a "mind-boggling increase in electric prices that residents across Upstate New York" paid this past winter. [Chuck Schumer]

A Bethlehem woman is charged with DWI after she called the police on herself. [TU]

Police in Bethlehem who pulled up to help what they thought was a disabled vehicle on the Thruway say they found a drunk driver asleep inside the vehicle. [TU][WNYT]

Saratoga Springs mayor Joanne Yepsen says the city council has already passed one casino resolution that "clearly states the sentiment of the public," and says currently there are no plans to pass any others. [Saratogian]

The $45 million plan to restore Saratoga Spring's Rip Van Dam hotel. [TU]

Joe Bruno on his upcoming re-trial on two counts of theft of honest services, which he says he is eagerly awaiting: "I ran for the Legislature because it was part time. I had a business and ran because it was part time." [Gazette]

Both MVP and CDPHP report being in the red for the first time in recent history and are blaming costs association with implementing the Affordable Care Act. [Gazette]

Several tons of marble from New York's old Capitol building were pulled from a shallow ravine behind Wolferts Roost Country Club and are being returned to the Capitol for display. [TU]

It's apparently legal to buzz the Capitol.[TU]