A Saratoga County Level-3 sex offender with a long, violent history has been arrested again.

State Police say Clinton King, 52, tried to kidnap a female clerk at the XTRA-Mart on Route 50 in Burnt Hills last night.

Police say King threatened the clerk with a pocket knife, but she caused a commotion and other customers intervened.

King is charged with kidnapping and robbery while using a dangerous weapon.

In 1997, King was convicted in Oregon of molesting a 9-year-old girl. After he was released from prison, he moved to Saratoga County where he was placed on the sex offender registry. King once told investigators that he's victimized sixteen people and that he fantasizes about rape.

BALLSTON SPA  - A state appeals court has granted a trial to a Saratoga County woman who pleaded guilty to killing her 91-year-old step-great-grandmother more than a decade ago.
    
The Appellate Division of state Supreme Court has upheld a Saratoga County judge's 2011 ruling that 29-year-old Katherine Seeber be tried for murder in the slaying of Ruth Witter.
    
Authorities say Witter was strangled in her suburban Albany home during a botched robbery by Seeber and her then-boyfriend Jeffrey Hampshire in February 2000.
    
Seeber pleaded guilty in 2001 to killing Witter and was sentenced to 20 years to life in prison. Hampshire was acquitted of murder later that year.
    
Attorneys handling Seeber's appeal say evidence reports from her case may have been faked by a state forensic technician who committed suicide in 2008 while under investigation.