PEARL RIVER, NY July 7, 2014 — Tuesday’s hot, steamy weather forecast, with its accompanying heavy air conditioning use and resulting high electricity demand, has prompted O&R to issue a Heat Watch for tomorrow, July 8. The simmering heat and sticky humidity are expected to push the load on the O&R electric system past 1,300 megawatts — Tuesday’s forecasted peak is 1,340 megawatts […]
Official NY GOP statement ALBANY… NYGOP Chair Ed Cox today released the following memo regarding the federal indictment of State Senator Tom Libous. “Allegations too thin, press releases too thick, timing too political for indictment to be credible” Allegations too thin This highly unusual, three-page, one-count indictment stems from an unrecorded conversation of an unannounced […]
The Town of Haverstraw Police Department is investigating a serious motor vehicle accident which occurred on July 6, 2014 on Route 9W in the Village of Haverstraw. The accident occurred at 3:14 pm on Route 9W approximately 500 feet north of the Town of Clarkstown border. It appears that a 2007 Audi driven by a, […]
The Bronx Bombers are putting fans to sleep this season — and at least one ticket-holder wants to make someone pay for it. An embarrassed Yankees fan who nodded off during a matchup against the Boston Red Sox is swinging for the fences with a $10 million defamation lawsuit against a pair of TV announcers […]
On Sunday, June 29, at about 11:30 a.m., a local con robbed the Rockland County Times offices in Nanuet, sneaking in a side entrance that was unsecured due to an adjoining office being in use. He made off with a computer, a scanner and a small television valued at $2, 000 total, before cutting his […]
BY DIANE DIMOND Another Fourth of July is upon us, and every year I try to think past the BBQ’s and beer and ponder the origin of Independence Day. “We hold these Truths to be self-evident, that all Men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among […]