Over the years, Mrs. George Burns has accumulated an overflow of nostalgia—good times, well-used gags and trademarked nitwitticisms that made her vaudeville’s, radio’s and TV’s longest ...

SCHENECTADY — Thirty-year Schenectady Fire Department veteran George Burns has been selected to serve as the city’s new fire chief, succeeding former chief Donald Mareno. Burns, who previously ...

Schenectady Fire Chief George Burns said a pick-up truck crashed into a house early Saturday morning at 1035 Van Velsen Street, causing the house to catch fire.