The opioid crisis in the United States is making headlines, and once again the news is grim — the number of drivers who have been killed while driving under the influence of opioids is the highest it’s ever been. Researchers at Columbia University looked at the drug test results of more than 36,000 drivers in […]
BY MARC MOSS The Maureen Porette for County Executive campaign has provided the Rockland County Times “something” as an explanation for their late pre-primary campaign filings. Whether that “something” is accurate, we do not know. The Democratic Party county executive candidate Porette’s legally required August 11 financial filings had not been posted on the New York State […]
BY CAROL MCILMURRAY Louis Jerome Adler, 75, and his wife, Dorothy Adler, 72, were both arrested on 44 counts of cruelty to animals on Friday, August 18. The arrest follows Hudson Valley Humane Society (HVHS) seizure of 21 live dogs, mostly Huskies or Husky-mixes at their 13 Chestnut Street home in Stony Point. The outrageous discovery […]
BY CAROL MCILMURRAY Dozens of state and local police cars responded a large fight at Rockland Lake on Saturday afternoon. A large crowd of people of about 20-30 began fighting outside the pool house near the park entrance. A weapon, alleged to be a machete, was reported to be at scene. Police immediately responded and […]
Eight friends went biking on the challenging back roads of Tomkins Cove this past Saturday morning. Tragically, only seven returned. 53-year-old Hilario Galvez of New Milford, NJ was descending a very steep slope on Buckberg Rd. when something went wrong causing him to cascade off the roadway into a wooded area. The impact killed him. […]
Fifteen-month-old Ephraim Szydlow was struck by a car and killed Sunday afternoon in Monsey. An American Latina Taxi cab operated by 41-year-old Jorge Garrangui-Castillo apparently struck and killed the child as the cab was backing out of a driveway at 3 Johanna Lane. Â Police found no evidence the cab driver was impaired by drugs or […]