NEW YORK – Attorney General Eric T. Schneiderman Wednesday released his office’s preliminary report into how charitable organizations have spent more than half a billion dollars raised in the weeks and months after Superstorm Sandy. Based on data provided by 89 charitable organizations that raised funds after the storm, at least $238 million of the […]
Rockland County District Attorney Thomas P. Zugibe this week announced that Paul Rizzo (DOB 03/29/59), address unknown, was convicted after a jury trial of: one count of Assault in the Second Degree, a class “D” Violent Felony and one count of Criminal Possession of a Weapon in the Third Degree, a class “D” Felony, relating […]
BY ARDSLEY POMONA After a slow start and pernicious rumors that he simply didn’t have the chops to raise serious dough, incumbent county legislator and county executive candidate Ed Day has quietly stockpiled a nice stash. Helped by the fact that his Democratic rivals must each spend some of their loot in a primary, insiders […]
The Rockland County Times mistakenly posted an anti-gun rights press release in the news section. Our apologies.
Albany, NY- The New York State Office of Mental Health (OMH) Wednesday released a three-year plan to transform the public mental health system. Under the Plan, OMH will shift the emphasis of its resources from long term inpatient treatment provided at over 24 hospitals to a state-of-the-art network of 15 Regional Centers of Excellence. The […]
BY MICHAEL RICONDA Brooklyn – Child sexual abuse is an unfortunate and tragic occurrence in any community, but adding insult to injury by purposely ostracizing a child’s family almost seems too cruel to comprehend. Still, for reporting sexual abuse of children, Orthodox and Hasidic Jewish families, also known as Haredi or ritually observant, often report […]