Hundreds or more pro-Palestinian/anti-“police brutality” protesters are looking to take to the streets tonight in defiance of a request by New York City Mayor Bill DeBlasio that recent protests take a break until two recently slain NYPD officers are buried. The officers were killed “execution-style” Saturday by a gunman who expressed sympathy with the […]
$14.6M in outstanding debt affected PRESS RELEASE FROM MOODY’S Moody’s Investors Service has downgraded to Baa2 from Baa1 the underlying rating on East Ramapo Central School District, NY’s $14.6 million in outstanding general obligation debt; the outlook remains negative. The district’s debt is secured by an unlimited tax pledge. RATINGS RATIONALE The downgrade to Baa2 […]
WEST NYACK – A third and final suspect connected to a string of unprovoked assaults on Black Friday shoppers at the Palisades Mall has been brought into custody by the Clarkstown Detective Bureau. Florend Gjevukaj, 18, of Yonkers, NY, was arrested today and charged with assault as a hate crime, a third degree felony. With […]
ROCKLAND COUNTY EXECUTIVE ED DAY STATEMENT ON THE MURDERS OF TWO NYPD OFFICERS IN BROOKLYN In the aftermath of the assassination of two New York City police officers yesterday, we extend our deepest thoughts and prayers for them, their families and fellow officers. To know that these brave men were murdered in cold blood should […]
NYPD released the names and pictures of the two officers murdered Saturday in their marked patrol car by an out of town gunman, while on assignment in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn. Officer Rafael Ramos, 40,  an NYPD officer since 2012, and Officer Wenjian Liu, 32, a seven year veteran of the NYPD, both “died in the […]
FROM RPD For one Ramapo family, Hanukkah, the Jewish Festival of Lights, was brighter than they would have ever asked for. Â A lit candle from a menorah found kindling and soon a fire consumed much of their home at 1 Tauber Terrace, Town of Ramapo. The fire, which was reported at 5:04 p.m., Friday as […]