In approximately 12% of credit or debit fraud cases, an Internet website is the initial point of contact, but other forms of crime are still operating just as strongly as before. An East Coast organized crime ring that stretched from Springfield, Massachusetts, to the Hudson Valley and down to Florida was allegedly behind crimes involving […]
PRESS RELEASE FROM ASSEMBLYWOMAN ELLEN JAFFE (Pearl River, NY) Assemblymember Ellen Jaffee (D-Suffern) on Wednesday sent a letter and submitted her comments to the Coast Guard on the Proposed Rulemaking: Anchorage Grounds, Hudson River; Yonkers, NY to Kingston, NY. Docket Number USCG–2016–0132. In her letter and comments Jaffee said, “I am writing on behalf of the […]
By Rockland County Executive Ed Day It’s been a long, hot summer and many of our young people spent time lazing at beaches and swimming pools. Many, but not all. And certainly not the 27 college-aged students who are spending the summer in the Rockland Conservation & Service Corps. The program is run by the […]
BY DYLAN SKRILOFF Clarkstown cops, police union leaders, officers’ spouses, Democratic Party operatives and others gathered at Tuesday’s Clarkstown Town Board meeting, holding a rally in support of suspended police chief, Michael Sullivan. It was also subtly a rally in support of law enforcement’s previously unquestioned “turf.” During two hours of public comments the group […]
NEW CITY, NY – Rockland County Executive Ed Day stood Thursday with the Anti-Defamation League and community leaders to denounce a hate crime targeting two rabbis. “There is no place for hate in Rockland,” he said from the steps of the old Rockland Courthouse where he led the rally with Human Rights Commissioner Penny Jennings […]
PRESS RELEASE FROM MAPS Today, the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) announced their intention to grant licenses to additional marijuana growers for research, thereby ending the DEA-imposed 48-year monopoly on federally legal marijuana. Since 1968, the University of Mississippi, under contract to the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), has maintained the only facility in the […]