Police, courts, arrests, and emergency services
Patricia Wind, a firefighter and shopkeeper in Rhinecliffe, is producing a new documentary to shine a spotlight on the challenges of recruiting for volunteer fire departments. The post As Volunteer...
HILLCREST – Fire that broke out around 10 a.m. on Monday damaged a house in the Hillcrest section of the Town of Ramapo. When firefights arrived, they found smoke billowing from the rear of the...
Saugerties police arrested a Kingston man Monday afternoon after responding to a reported dispute on Route 32, charging him with multiple felonies and misdemeanors. Ezra S. Jackson-Dennin, 28, was...
NEW YORK – Thousands of police officers worldwide have called on a New York City judge to refrain from sentencing a Big Apple cop from Mahopac to prison after being found guilty of manslaughter for...
POUGHKEEPSIE — A man who was arrested Monday morning for allegedly attempting to break into a Poughkeepsie home was stabbed later that night during a separate incident, according to City of...
NEW ROCHELLE – Police in New Rochelle have arrested two of the shooters in the multiple-shooter gunfire incident on Saturday, April 4 in the 50 block of Colonel Lee Archer Boulevard at the...
NEWBURGH – An incident of shots being fired in the area of Third Street and City Terrace in the City of Newburgh has the police department’s Non-Fatal Shooting Task Force investigating the incident...
MONTICELLO – In a two-day proactive enforcement detail focused on quality-of-life violations throughout Sullivan County, State Police arrested six Monticello residents. The arrests, on April 1 and 2,...
YORKTOWN – A Yorktown man is charged with felony stalking for continuing to contact a Somers resident on social media after being asked to stop. State Police charged Michael Portella, 25, after Troop...
The Burlington, Vermont Police Department has released new pictures of a suspected peeping tom.
The arraignment date for a former teacher charged with raping students at a Pittsfield, Massachusetts, boarding school is set.
NEWBURGH – An incident of shots being fired in the area of Third Street and City Terrace in the City of Newburgh has the police department’s Non-Fatal Shooting Task Force investigating the incident...
NEW ROCHELLE – Police in New Rochelle have arrested two of the shooters in the multiple-shooter gunfire incident on Saturday, April 4 in the 50 block of Colonel Lee Archer Boulevard at the...
MIDDLETOWN – An early Saturday morning fire at 11 Starhaven Avenue in Middletown claimed the life of one person, city fire officials said. The two-alarm fire was initially called in at around 12:50...
CARMEL – The 2008 New Year’s Eve Day murder of John Marcinak outside his Garrison garage shocked the close-knit community. Anthony Grigoroff, a teenager at the time was twice convicted of murdering...
PORT JERVIS – Police in the City of Port Jervis will be participating in the “Put the Phone Away or Pay” campaign from April 9-13. It is part of National Distracted Driver Awareness Month in April....
NEW ROCHELLE- Several people were reported shooting at one another in the 50 block of Colonel Lee Archer Boulevard and at the intersection of Jacquetta Cole Street and Colonel Lee Archer Boulevard at...
NYACK – Gunshots rang out in the area of Main and North Mill streets in the Village of Nyack just before 3 a.m. Sunday with one person being shot, Orangetown Police said. During the investigation,...
Video courtesy of Rockland Video Production WOODBURY – A serious one-car accident on Route 32 just south of Sweet Clover Road in the Town of Woodbury injured several people. Friends of the victims...
NEW ROCHELLE – A 46-year-old Briarcliff Manor man has been charged with making threats against the New Rochelle schools superintendent. Samuel McVey was charged with a misdemeanor of aggravated...
MIDDLE HOPE – Fire that broke out at approximately 10:45 p.m. on Saturday, April 4 damaged a residence at 1102 Kayla Court in the Town of Newburgh. The two-alarm fire, which brought out firefighters...
New York State Police are investigating a homicide that occurred Tuesday night, March 31, in the Village of Ellenville. Troopers responded at about 8:29 p.m., and police said there is no ongoing...
MIDDLETOWN – An early Saturday morning fire at 11 Starhaven Avenue in Middletown claimed the life of one person, city fire officials said. The two-alarm fire was initially called in at around 12:50...
POUGHKEEPSIE – Motorists traveling at night along Route 9, also known as South Road in Poughkeepsie, have been driving in the dark for more than one month now. The LED street lamps, marketed as a...
POUGHKEEPSIE – Frank “Frankie” Flowers, 50, of the Town of Poughkeepsie, has been arrested yet again. The brother of Poughkeepsie Mayor Yvonne Flowers has been battling domestic violence charges in...
CARMEL- Special education parent-teacher organizations in Putnam’s two largest school districts have reminded families and friends of individuals with special needs to register for the SafeMe program...
GOLDENS BRIDGE- Authorities have called it a miracle that a motorist who fell asleep while driving northbound on Route 684 near the Putnam-Westchester County line did not cause a crash resulting in...
NEWBURGH- The City of Newburgh will begin its annual fire hydrant flushing program throughout the city starting on Monday, April 13, 2026. The program will continue until all flushing is complete....
State judge ruled Beacon not liable
POUGHKEEPSIE – Frank “Frankie” Flowers, 50, of the Town of Poughkeepsie, has been arrested yet again. The brother of Poughkeepsie Mayor Yvonne Flowers has been battling domestic violence charges in...
SOUTHEAST- Deputies on patrol in Southeast observed a vehicle with an expired inspection sticker affixed to its windshield. At first glance, what was a routine traffic stop turned into what police...
WALDEN – One of the people believed to be a key figure in the Orange County District Attorney’s investigation into the Village of Walden’s Housing Rehabilitation Program is rejecting any allegations...
BREWSTER- Smoke alarms awakened a Brewster family on Friday, who called 9-1-1 notifying emergency responders that their two-story wood frame home on Route 6 in the village was filling with smoke....
SOMERS- Firefighters from Putnam and Northern Westchester spent several hours battling a suspicious fire that damaged a room inside the massive former IBM facility on Route 100 in Somers. The blaze...
NEW ROCHELLE – Police in New Rochelle have arrested a 28-year-old New Rochelle woman on a felony assault charge in connection with a domestic dispute that took place at 12 Church Street at 6:30 a.m....
He was arrested in April 2024 after prosecutors say the 35-year-old man locked his daughter alone in a room without sustenance.
A Schenectady fire that caused severe burns on a man’s head, hands and face ignited when a man used a chemical solvent in his basement, according to the fire department.
ELLENVILLE – A 29-year-old Ellenville woman was murdered in the Village of Ellenville and State Police are investigating the incident that occurred at approximately 8:30 p.m. on Tuesday, March 31....
CLARKSTOWN – An Elmsford man, who was driving while drunk and rammed into a disabled car that was parked partially in the travel lane and on the right shoulder of the northbound Thruway in Clarkstown...
POUGHKEEPSIE — Shawn Grey, 50, of Pleasant Valley, once among New York’s most wanted fugitives, was convicted Wednesday of burglary and criminal possession of stolen property in Dutchess County...
FISHKILL – A traffic stop on Route 9 in Fishkill has led to the arrest of a Mahopac man on charges of violating Leandra’s Law. State Police identified the suspect as 40-year-old Skirianos Skirianos....
SOUTH FALLSBURG – A road rage incident on Route 42 in South Fallsburg near Heiden Road led to the arrest of a driver on charges of reckless endangerment, endangering the welfare of a child, and...
A barn fire in Ellenville on Sunday, March 29, spread beyond the building and sparked a brush fire in nearby hay fields and an adjacent wooded lot, prompting a request for state forest ranger...
Two Devereux Advanced Behavioral Health employees face felony and misdemeanor charges after allegedly using excessive force on a 16-year-old resident and falsifying records. The post Two Staffers at...
A former Cohoes High School teacher was arraigned on eight counts of rape and one count of endangering the welfare of a child Thursday.
GOSHEN – The Appellate Division of State Supreme Court has ruled that Orange County and the District Attorney’s Office had nothing to do with the bribery scandal between the late Stewart Rosenwasser...
MONTICELLO – Matt Russo, who disappeared on June 18th, 2023 after walking away from Garnet Health Medical Center Catskills, would have turned 40 years old on March 31st. His parents, Dawn and Marc...
NEW YORK – The owner of the Camelot Funeral Home in Mount Vernon, Michael Naughton, 55, has been indicted by a Westchester County grand jury on charges that he illegally provided funeral directing...
LIBERTY – The Sullivan County Quick Response team in partnership with Hope Not Handcuffs, has been operating countywide since last fall and Liberty Village Police Chief Steven D’Agata, who chairs the...
LAKE CARMEL – It was no April Fool’s hoax, but when a garbage truck dumped its load at the busy intersection of Routes 52 and 311 in Lake Carmel Wednesday the incident snarled traffic and resulted in...