BY CHERYL SLAVIN In light of a state Dormitory Authority (DASNY) approval of a $75,000 grant solely for the Stony Point dog park, the Stony Point Town Board passed a resolution Tuesday night rescinding its budgeted $15,000 for the dog park project and redirected those funds to the PAL to be used towards the Stony […]
HAVERSTRAW – A local man has been arrested and charged with an unemployment benefits scam which reaped hundreds of thousands in ill-gotten gains for out-of-country beneficiaries within the past four years. Ramon Delacruz, 36, was arrested early Monday morning by authorities with the Rockland County District Attorney’s Office’s Special Investigation Unit, the New York State […]
NANUET – A 25-year-old woman was taken into police custody on Sunday after she reportedly stole a woman’s purse and assaulted two Fairway employees in a desperate attempt to escape from the Nanuet supermarket. Justine Peterkin of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania reportedly took a shopper’s purse while it rested in the woman’s handbag. A loss prevention employee […]
A teen’s alleged joy ride turned into Class A misdemeanor charges this afternoon after Ramapo PD arrested the youth for operating his vehicle on a local baseball field. The Ramapo officer on patrol observed the vehicle being operated on the Orchard Hill Park Baseball Field at approximately 1:15 p.m.. The field was damaged as a […]
The Clarkstown PD has investigated a possible luring incident which occurred on Thursday, March 19, 2015 shortly after 5:30 p.m. on White Birch Court in New City. A young child (less than 10 years of age) was walking home on White Birch Ct, when a passenger in a red pick-up truck reportedly asked the child […]
The Rockland County Department of Public Transportation this week officially launched its electronic Transit Alerts initiative, a new mobile text or email notification option for Transport of Rockland (TOR), TAPPAN ZEExpress (TZx) and TRIPS paratransit riders. The Transit Alerts program enables customers to receive mobile texts and/or emails when holiday or other system-wide events impact bus […]