Legislature’s new restrictions cause McDonald’s to pull toys from Happy Meals BY DYLAN SKRILOFF At least two Rockland County McDonald’s, and possibly more, have pulled toys from Happy Meals due to a law passed by the Rockland County Legislature this summer intended to protect the public from toxins. New City and Nanuet McDonald’s confirmed with […]
BY MICHAEL VOLPE Court Referee Dean Richardson-Mendelson recently issued a scathing ruling against Susan Carrington, a Maryland mother who has not seen either of her two children in more than four years, and whose Rockland County custody case received international attention after a series of RCT articles. The latest courtroom ruling has come even as […]
Pot House Suspects Arrested FROM CPD The Clarkstown Police Department have arrested the man they suspect of running a major marijuana grow house in Valley Cottage. On September 29, 2015 at approximately 5 a.m. the Clarkstown Police Department, with the assistance of the New York State Police, executed a search warrant at 8 Thomas Court […]
PRESS RELEASE Senator David Carlucci joined New York State Governor Andrew Cuomo, former Vice President Al Gore, Columbia University President Lee Bollinger and fellow legislators at Columbia University on October 8 to announce that New York State will sign on to the Under 2 MOU, an agreement between states, provinces and municipal governments around the […]
BY CAROL MCILMURRAY STONY POINT- Stony Point Supervisor Geoff Finn and town board members held a press conference on Tuesday Oct. 13 to announce a pending suit and requested court injuction to stop Haverstraw’s Joint Regional Sewerage Boards (JRSB) from terminating its agreement with Stony Point on Dec 31 of this year. The action […]
BY ADAM LUCENTE Reporting from East Jerusalem ‘Intifada’ is an Arabic word meaning ‘uprising.’ It was used to describe events between 1987 and 1993 (the First Intifada) as well as 2000 and 2005 (the Second Intifada). These seminal Palestinian uprisings against the Israeli occupation of the West Bank and Gaza included suicide bombings, demolitions, targeted […]