More people will be able to find free legal help thanks to a new rule announced today.

New York’s chief judge says new lawyers will now have to provide 50 hours of free legal serves in order to take the state bar exam next year.

New York’s attorney general says the pro bono requirement should help more families stave off mortgage foreclosures.

RENSSELAER - It's 'song and movement time' at the Ready, Set, Grow Daycare.

"Are we really happy? If you're happy and you know it clap your hands!" says Dominque Smith to the young children who are clapping to the rythm.

Smith and his wife run a home business that had plans to grow itself by adding a new room. But he and his wife said those dreams withered when their contractor stopped showing up.

"It's unfair when you give somebody money in good trust, and they start to do things and they disappear, and you feel heartbroken and you feel like you ultimately, got scammed," Smith said.

He showed NewsChannel what they have to show for the addition they hired the company Mr. B's Construction to build.

"Wood. Footings. Cement. Headache. Frustration," said Smith, pointing to the footings off his deck.

WASHINGTON, D.C. - Senator Charles Schumer has introduced an amendment to protect Door to Door postal delivery to rural communities.

The current bill before the senate would have created apartment style mailboxes farther away from homes. Senator Schumer is pushing for the postal service to enact a moratorium for two years on the closure of anymore rural Post Offices.

As written the postal reform bill would have pushed the USPS to stop delivering mail to individual doors and mail boxes and instead install apartment style group boxes where all of the mail for a given street or neighborhood would be delivered.

The area post offices currently on the block are Coeymans Hollow, North Blenheim, South Bethlehem, North Hoosick, and North Hudson.