A family of scarecrows decorate the front lawn of this home at 50 S. East Street in Johnstown.

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A man was stabbed Monday evening in Gloversville and a suspect has been charged.

The victim was taken for treatment and remained hospitalized Tuesday, police said. His injuries were not believed to be life-threatening.

Charged in the case is Tyrell H. Thomas, 30. Thomas faces one count of second-degree assault and third-degree criminal possession of a weapon, police said.

The incident happened Monday evening on Fremont Street.

Thomas is accused of stabbing the victim in the abdomen with a knife at about 6:40 p.m., according to allegations filed in court.

Police spokesman Captain Brad Schaffer described the incident as a “verbal dispute in the street that escalated to an attack with a weapon.”

There is some dispute whether the victim and suspect knew each other prior to the incident, Schaffer said.

The incident remained under investigation Tuesday.

Thomas was arraigned and ordered held without bail.

Luigi Mangione, accused of fatally shooting UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, appears in Manhattan state court in New York, Tuesday.

Luigi Mangione is escorted into Manhattan state court in New York, Tuesday, Sept. 16, 2025.

Luigi Mangione, accused of fatally shooting UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, appears in Manhattan state court in New York, Tuesday, Sept. 16, 2025.

Luigi Mangione is escorted into Manhattan state court in New York, Tuesday, Sept. 16, 2025.

Luigi Mangione, accused of fatally shooting UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, appears in Manhattan state court in New York, Tuesday, Sept. 16, 2025.

NEW YORK (AP) — New York prosecutors tried to use a 9/11-era terrorism law in their case against Luigi Mangione. But a judge ruled Tuesday that the state anti-terror statute doesn’t apply to the killing of UnitedHealthcare’s chief executive on a midtown Manhattan street last year.

The judge let murder and other charges stand against Mangione, who also faces a federal murder case in CEO Brian Thompson’s death.

What Mangione no longer faces are New York state charges of murder as an act of terrorism.

If it sounded like an unusual application of a terrorism law, it wasn’t a first. Such charges have been brought — and sometimes rejected — in other cases that weren’t about cross-border extremism or a plot to kill masses of people.

Here are some things to know about New York’s anti-terrorism law.

Where did New York’s anti-terror law come from?

State lawmakers passed it in 2001, six days after the Sept. 11 attacks, saying the state needed “legislation that is specifically designed to combat the evils of terrorism.” Proponents pointed out that many cases could come via state and local law enforcement officers, not just from federal investigations.

Many other states passed similar laws around the same time, and Congress approved the Patriot Act.

What does the law say?

Essentially an add-on to existing criminal statutes, it says that an underlying offense constitutes terrorism if it’s done with an intent to “intimidate or coerce a civilian population,” to “influence the policy of a unit of government by intimidation or coercion” or to “affect the conduct of a unit of government by murder, assassination or kidnapping.”

What does it do?

If a defendant is convicted, the terrorism designation boosts the underlying........

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