FROM CPD On Tuesday, June 10, 2014 at 6:45 a.m., the Clarkstown Police Department arrested Salvatore Maiolo, 63, of Long Beach, NY for burglary in the third degree, grand larceny in the third degree , criminal mischief in the second degree and criminal possession of stolen property in the third degree, all felonies. He was […]
NYLO Nyack project transforming former factory site alongside Thruway BY BILL DEMAREST NYACK – Developers of the Nylo Nyack Hotel project on the site of a former Nyack factory have set a ceremonial groundbreaking for the development. Local officials have been invited to the ceremony at 10 a.m. on Thursday, June 19, at the the […]
BY BARRY WARNER On May 30, 1916 President Woodrow Wilson issued a presidential proclamation establishing a National Flag Day. This Saturday, June 14, 2014 will commemorate the adoption of ‘Old Glory’ as the official flag of the United States in 1777 by resolution of the Second Continental Congress. The American flag, also nicknamed ‘star spangled […]
17th District Republican Congressional candidate Chris Day is calling attention to his opponent Nita Lowey’s reaction–or lack thereof–to news Governor Andrew Cuomo will appoint a state fiscal monitor to oversee budgetary practices at the oft-controversial East Ramapo Central School District. Specifically Day says Lowey sent what looked like press releases to individual concerned parents from […]
A witness testifying against a Greek farm foreman on trial over a shotgun attack on protesting foreign strawberry pickers says the man had earlier killed two dogs in front of workers, threatening them with the same fate if they kept asking for their unpaid wages. READ MORE: http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/greek-farm-worker-shooting-trial-cites-dog-killing-24107112
An al-Qaida breakaway group, apparently backed by other Sunni groups and fighters, has seized a large section of northern Iraq after previously taking much of northeastern Syria with an eye toward establishing an Islamic state straddling the two countries. The situation on the ground is changing rapidly, but some patterns and explanations are now emerging: […]