BALLSTON SPA - At the end of this year, Jim Bowen will be walking out of the office he's held for more than forty years.

And Bowen is saying Wednesday who he wants to succeed him as Saratoga County Sheriff.

The sheriff is throwing his political clout behind Mike Zurlo, who worked under Bowen for 32 years.

"I respect that man. He's been a true mentor to me when I was with the Sheriff's Department," Zurlo said. "And to hear that, I'm very pleased."

Zurlo's path to top cop is not without a challenge. He's opposed by former state police senior investigator Jeff Gildersleeve, a former marine and long-time resident of Ballston Lake. Both men respect each other, but they both want the Republican nomination.

"I think the people of Saratoga County expect and deserve to have a professional law enforcement agency, which they do," said Gildersleeve.

SARATOGA SPRINGS - The Saratoga Springs High School prom is this weekend. In advance of the event, students are getting an in-your-face lesson on the dangers of drinking and driving in the form of a mock DWI accident.

The lesson included arrests, multiple victims and a hearse.

The prom will be held at the City Center Saturday night. There are other proms in the area too.

Educators want to make sure prom goers don't end up in the ER or worse.

Police come rushing to the scene of a crash as part of the simulation where there were multiple victims and alcohol was involved.

The scene of this staged incident was in front of Saratoga Springs High School, with several hundred juniors and seniors looking on. They watched one of their class mates go through field sobriety tests. Another was placed on a stretcher and loaded into an ambulance. A third was zipped into a body bag and carted to a hearse.

SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. (AP) - A 49-year-old Massachusetts man has admitted threatening a student at an upstate New York college.

Saratoga County District Attorney James A. Murphy III tells local media outlets that Lance Leonard pleaded guilty Monday to a felony charge of first-degree coercion.