The Stony Point Police are investigating a commercial motor vehicle accident on Rte 9W in the vicinity of Higgins Funeral Home that occurred around 1:14 p.m. on Wednesday. Said vehicle collided with a utility pole and overturned spilling its load (logs) across the roadway, and puncturing its fuel tanks. The roadway will be shut down until the early […]
Thruway Authority Executive Director Robert L. Megna will step down from his current position in mid-January and take a position as the senior VP for Finance and Administration at Stony Brook University. Governor Cuomo is expected to nominate Mr. Megna to fill a vacancy on the Thruway Authority and Canal Corporation Board of Directors (subject […]
A New Square resident who got a seven-year prison sentence for trying to burn down a house in April 2012 has been set free this week in front of a Rockland County judge. State Supreme Court Justice William Kelly made the decision Tuesday afternoon, at a resentencing hearing ordered by an Appeals Court. Upon reconsidering the case, Judge […]
BY JANIE ROSMAN Governor Andrew Cuomo’s office held two meetings in partnership with the Business Council of Westchester and Rockland Business Association regarding the $5.2 billion Tappan Zee Hudson River Crossing Project. This is the start of the process,” Brian Conybeare said that July 2012 day in White Plains. Cuomo appointed the former News 12 […]
BY CAROL MCILMURRAY SLOATSBURG- Shortly after 9:50 a.m. Wednesday morning a final gunshot rang out at 3 Adams Court, the residence of William Groesbeck, a former cop who apparently committed a murder/suicide. Police were already on the scene and the Ramapo Emergency Team entered the home to find a deceased couple both inflicted with gunshot wounds. According […]
According to a report by News 12 this morning, the reason the Woodbury Town Board suspended Rockland County Sheriff’s candidate Richard Vasquez from his job as Woodbury police chief is because they felt he was campaigning on the job excessively and not attending to his duties. The board also is expected to file formal action to […]