COUNTY EXECUTIVE PRESS RELEASE NEW CITY, NY — Rockland County Executive Ed Day and Rockland County Veterans Service Agency Director Jerry Donnellan Thursday marked the 70th Anniversary of the D-Day invasion at the Camp Shanks Museum in Orangetown. From 1943 until the end of World War II, Camp Shanks was the largest Army port of […]
BY MARGO THORNING President Obama recently released his fiscal year 2015 budget proposal. In it, he calls for greater investments in natural-gas production. This comes shortly after the surprising news of a favorable administration environmental report on the proposed Keystone XL oil pipeline, a planned $7 billion project that would deliver 800,000 barrels of oil […]
The Taliban found Pfc. Bowe Bergdahl walking alone, acting abnormally and cursing his countrymen before they captured him in Afghanistan in 2009, two men who were Taliban commanders at the time told NBC News on Thursday. They said that Afghan locals first informed fighters about the soldier, and then the fighters rushed to capture him. […]
(CNN) — After a series of raids, police made new arrests in the public stoning death of a pregnant Pakistani woman, bringing the total of people in custody to 12. Farzana Parveen, 25, was killed in Lahore last month because she married a man against her family’s wishes. READ MORE: http://www.cnn.com/2014/06/05/world/asia/pakistan-stoning-death/index.html?hpt=wo_c2
Volvo’s latest model is a taste of what’s to come, and it marks a radical change in the way it builds cars. The S60 compact was mildly updated last year with a new front fascia and interior, but for 2015 it debuts Volvo’s new engines of the future. They’re called Drive-E, an environmentally friendly name. […]
President Obama, facing rising bipartisan criticism over his handling of the Taliban-for-Bergdahl prisoner swap, dug in his heels Thursday and declared he would make “absolutely no apologies” for bringing an American soldier home — as his administration stepped up its defense of the controversial deal. The president fielded a question on the Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl […]