Bon Secours Charity Health System to Work with Other Hospitals

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, […]

Man Killed in Palisades Parkway Crash

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 […]

New Square “Circus” Chapter II

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 […]

Despite Laws, International Efforts, and Protester Suicides, Slavery Persists in African State of Mauritania

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 […]

Two Arrests After Haverstraw Car Chase

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 […]

M&T Bank Buys Hudson City

On Monday, August 27, M&T Bank Corp. announced it would be buying Hudson City Bancorp, the parent company of Hudson City Savings Bank, for $3.7 billion. The deal is expected to close next year. It will give M&T an additional 135 branches in three states, the fourth retail market share in New Jersey and move […]