ALBANY – Beginning on April 8, customers who shop at Hannaford Supermarkets will have the chance to give back to their community when recycling.

Customers who return deposit valued bottles and cans at Hannaford locations is New York will have the option to donate the money to local charities.

The first beneficiary will be the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation of Northeastern New York.

The program will be offered at 22 Hannaford store throughout the Capital Region and Hudson Valley.

Customers can participate by either dropping off their bottles to a Greenback staff member or by pressing the option on one of the TOMRA reverse vending machines.

The program runs through May 31.  

SCHENECTADY – A woman was arraigned Friday on murder and manslaughter charges.

Police say 43-year-old Gloria Nelligan beat 8-year-old Sha'hiim over a two day period.

He died from hypovolemic shock, (shock caused by severe blood or fluid loss) and cerebral edema (an excess accumulation of fluid in the intracellular or extracellular spaces of the brain.)

Despite arguments from her attorney, bail was denied, so she remains in the county jail. The judge also issued an order of protection for three of her daughters, who are also witnesses in the case.

SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. (AP) - The Environmental Protection Agency has finalized a plan to clean up additional contaminated soil and ground water at the site of an old coal gas manufacturing plant in Saratoga Springs.

Niagara Mohawk Power Corporation is expected to do the work and pay for the $6.5 million final phase of the cleanup.

The EPA issued its first cleanup plan for the so-called Excelsior site in 1995. It found contaminants in the ground water and soil on the Niagara Mohawk property, at a former skating rink, in stream sediment, and the former Spa Steel property.

During the first cleanup, contaminated soil and sediment were removed from areas containing coal tar waste.

Similar cleanups at former manufactured gas plants have been going on for decades in New York and other states.