Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) Chairman and CEO Thomas F. Prendergast announced the January 31 retirement of MTA Metro-North Railroad President Howard Permut and the appointment of Joseph J. Giulietti as his successor. Permut has been a senior Metro-North executive since he helped found the railroad in 1983 and has served as president for more than […]
New City – In a rare case for Rockland corrections, Orangetown resident Francis Donnelly hanged himself in his jail cell on Sunday afternoon. Sheriff Louis Falco said Donnelly, who was arrested in September on robbery and weapons charges, had been processed in the standard fashion at the jail, going through screening for mental illness and […]
Electricity demand by O&R customers Tuesday broke the record for the second highest winter weekday peak in the company’s history, the company reports. Strong, frigid winds and bitter cold conspired to push electric demand on Jan. 7 to a peak of 966 MW at 7 p.m. The top winter all-time weekday peak electric demand record […]
BY BILL DEMAREST MONSEY – Eleven Rockland County volunteer fire departments this afternoon are battling a house fire that has already heavily damaged a home in Monsey. The fire at 35 Dolson Road was reported at 11:27 a.m. Volunteer firefighters from across Rockland have been called to assist Tallman firefighters with the blaze in bitter […]
James O’Sullivan, 36, of New City, has been arrested on charges of burglary, robbery and criminal possession of stolen property. Police accuse O’Sullivan of entering a residence on New Valley Road in New City on January 6, and going into the master bedroom where he ran into the homeowner, a 53-year-old female home alone. Police say the homeowner […]
West Nyack – Clarkstown Police are currently searching for a man who is suspected of sexually abusing two children at the Palisades Center in late December. The individual allegedly approached a 10-year-old girl from behind in the children’s section of the Barnes and Noble on December 26 while her mother was nearby and performed a […]