State Agriculture Commissioner Darrel J. Aubertine has announced that, for the first time, New Yorkers will be given the opportunity to come up with the theme of the 2013 Great New York State Fair. New Yorkers have until March 15, 2013 to submit ideas for a theme to statefairideas@agriculture.ny.gov. “This is just one more way we are […]
Egyptian authorities have denied U.S. investigators direct access to Abu Ahmed, a suspect involved in the September 11 U.S. Embassy attack in Libya which killed Ambassador Chris Stevens and four others. According to Thomas Joscelyn with the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, Egyptian authorities often prefer to maintain indirect lines of communication between American interrogators […]
State Senator David Carlucci met with mental health advocates, doctors, and patients on February 21, joining them in a call to restore Medicaid’s “Prescriber Prevails” program for state drug plans and especially for atypical antipsychotics. The Prescriber Prevails program gives doctors the final authority on which medications will best assist their patients. This changed in […]
Nicole Lynn Baumann, age 25, residing at 349 E. Union St., Tamaqua, PA, was arrested on February 19, 2013 for grand larceny in the fourth degree x2, CPSP in the fourth degree x2, petit larceny and criminal possession of stolen property in the fifth degree. The defendant was arrested following an investigation by the Stony […]
Interim Medical Examiner Dr. Laura Carbone is set to lose the interim in front of her title. The Multi-Services Committee of the Rockland Legislature will vote on approving Carbone as the permanent medical examiner at a meeting Tuesday. After that vote the full Rockland Legislature and the county executive must sign off. Carbone replaced Dr. […]
On Friday, February 22 at about 9:46 p.m., the Town of Ramapo Police received a report of a fire at 26 Hilltop Lane in Monsey. The officers found a structure located behind the residence engulfed in flames. It was later determined to be a large wooden play house/play set. Monsey Fire Department arrived on the […]