U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry flew to Afghanistan late Thursday on an unannounced visit to press the country’s two feuding presidential candidates on the urgency of ending a bitter dispute over June elections and forming a new government by early September. Kerry’s visit comes as the election results are being audited in a process […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama says he has authorized the U.S. military to launch targeted airstrikes if Islamic militants advance toward American personnel in northern Iraq. He also has announced that the military carried out airdrops of humanitarian aid Thursday to Iraqi religious minorities threatened by the extremists. “Today America is coming to help,” […]
COLUMN AND PHOTOS BY BOB BAIRD On Friday mornings at Grace’s Thrift Shop on Main Street in Nyack, one thing is certain. In a back corner of the consignment shop filled with pots, pans, glassware and assorted clothes and trinkets, there’s Ruth Butler taking tags off items and bagging each customer’s newest treasure. She’s an […]
Local media sources have reported that reputed mobster Daniel Pagano, 61, of Ramapo, was arrested on racketeering and conspiracy charges related to loan sharking and gambling. His alleged associate Michael Palazzolo was also arrested. The Journal News said prosecutors indicated Pagano is a captain or “capo” in the nationwide Genovese crime family. He allegedly runs […]
CLIFFVIEW PILOT: Port Authority police this afternoon identified the DWI driver of a Porsche dragged several hundred yards overnight by a tractor-trailer on the George Washington Bridge as a 55-year-old Rockland County man. Stuart J. Lieberman of Monsey had a nearly empty bottle of vodka in the car after the 2003 Porsch 911Porche struck the rig […]
BY MICHAEL RICONDA NEW CITY – The County Legislature voted on Wednesday to override County Executive Ed Day’s veto of their bill approving a referendum of changes to the the county charter, potentially ending a drawn-out conflict between the two branches of government over how much to reform government functions. The legislature narrowly approving the […]