DiNapoli: Report Urges Increased Oversight with Transition to Managed Care State Comptroller Thomas P. DiNapoli’s audits identified a total of $513 million in improper Medicaid payments and untapped revenue opportunities over a four-year period, according to a report released this week. Auditors identified another $361 million in questionable transactions that will require further review and […]
BY CHERYL SLAVIN What has started, over the past few years, as a murmur of concern about the effects of Common Core aligned standardized tests on student and teacher evaluation and performance has now swelled into a roar of protest by thousands of parents statewide over what they believe are unfair, developmentally inappropriate and ultimately […]
NANUET – A serious motor vehicle accident on New Clarkstown Road in the early afternoon landed an elderly woman in the hospital and fighting for her life, according to Clarkstown Police. Police were called to the scene of the accident at around 12:40 p.m., where they found a sedan crushed into a stand of trees […]
BY CHERYL SLAVIN Over the winter the Stony Point Police Athletic League had been busy planning for its future, and now that warmer weather is here will be hosting a number of enjoyable community events which will also help to raise funds for its skate park project and other year round activities. On Wednesday May 27 […]
CLIFFVIEW PILOT Three Orthodox Jewish rabbis were convicted today for their roled in a scheme to kidnap and torture a Jewish man into granting his wife a religious divorce. Mendel Epstein, 69, of Lakewood (above, left), Jay “Yaakov” Goldstein, 60, and 39-year-old Binyamin Stimler, both of Brooklyn, were each found gulty of conspiracy to commit […]
On Saturday, April 25 from 9 a.m. – 3 p.m., Stony Point first responders will be sponsoring a blood drive in conjunction with New York Blood Center. The blood drive will be held in the Stony Point Fire Sub-Station at 199 Central Highway (intersection of Route 210 and Central Highway), Stony Point, New York. Stony Point […]