Eleven years ago, on September 11, 2001, the United States was attacked when hijakers crashed a plane into the north tower of the World Trade Center in New York City at 8:46 a.m. At 9:03 a.m., another plane collided into the south tower. At 9:37 a.m., a third plane then crashed into the Pentagon building. […]
Good Samaritan Hospital’s parent company, Bon Secours Charity Health System, will announce next week that it is about to enter into an alliance with Saint Francis Hospital and Health Centers in Poughkeepsie and St. Luke’s Cornwall Hospital. The new joint operation will be called Hudson Health Partners. Bon Secours currently operates Good Samaritan in Suffern, […]
Daniel McWeeney of Garnerville was killed when his car hit a tree on the northbound side of the Palisades Interstate Parkway on Monday, September 3. McWeeney, 25, was alone in the car when the crash happened and no other cars were involved, authorities say. It is not clear what caused the crash at the entrance […]
Follies of the “Sirkus Brothers” continue as a drunken Chaim is arrested for driving stolen garbage truck into school bus. Early on Tuesday, August 28, Chaim Surkis, 23, of New Square was arrested for stealing and then driving a garbage truck while intoxicated and hitting a parked, unoccupied school bus. The Town of Ramapo Police […]
BY MICHAEL RICONDA Though human trafficking has received significant attention over the past few years, a different form of slavery has gone largely unnoticed in the African country of Mauritania. The country, which is located on Africa’s West Coast, has a long-standing and disturbingly prevalent tradition of slavery. Cultural practices in the nation sustain a […]
On Tuesday, August 28, the police were chasing Anthony O. Nash of Stony Point, a man wanted on felony drug charges, but Eddie B. Lopez of Haverstraw mistakenly thought they were chasing him because he had stolen a car. Both men are now in the Rockland County jail. Lopez, 22, crashed into a police car […]