Carlucci Joins Mental Health Advocates in Call to Restore “Prescriber Prevails”

State Senator David Carlucci met with mental health advocates, doctors, and patients on February 21, joining them in a call to restore Medicaid’s “Prescriber Prevails” program for state drug plans and especially for atypical antipsychotics. The Prescriber Prevails program gives doctors the final authority on which medications will best assist their patients. This changed in […]

PA WOMAN ARRESTED FOR GRAND LARCENY, PETIT LARCENY & MORE

PA WOMAN ARRESTED FOR GRAND LARCENY, PETIT LARCENY & MORE

Nicole Lynn Baumann, age 25, residing at 349 E. Union St., Tamaqua, PA, was arrested on February 19, 2013 for grand larceny in the fourth degree x2, CPSP in the fourth degree x2, petit larceny and criminal possession of stolen property in the fifth degree. The defendant was arrested following an investigation by the Stony […]

Dr. Laura Carbone Expected to be Named Medical Examiner of Rockland County

Interim Medical Examiner Dr. Laura Carbone is set to lose the interim in front of her title. The Multi-Services Committee of the Rockland Legislature will vote on approving Carbone as the permanent medical examiner at a meeting Tuesday. After that vote the full Rockland Legislature and the county executive must sign off. Carbone replaced Dr. […]

Playground catches fire in Monsey

On Friday, February 22 at about 9:46 p.m., the Town of Ramapo Police received a report of a  fire at 26 Hilltop Lane in Monsey. The officers found a structure located behind the residence engulfed in flames. It was later determined to be a large wooden play house/play set. Monsey Fire Department arrived on the […]

Daughter of Judge in Hospital, Struck by Drunk Driver

Daughter of Judge in Hospital, Struck by Drunk Driver

A 45-year-old Stony Point man is in police custody in connection with a traffic accident that left the daughter of Judge William Sherwood, former Supreme Court justice and town supervisor, in serious but stable condition. Michael Coyle of 156 N. Liberty Dr., Stony Point has been charged with aggravated vehicular assault (felony), DWI (felony), reckless […]

RAMAPO TAXI ATTACK

For the second time in the past week a taxi driver has allegedly been attacked in Rockland County. The first incident was in Nanuet on February 19 when cops allege that Mario Grasso and Jacqui Marcos got into a scuffle with a driver and Jacqui left the scene to retrieve a longgun which they claim […]