RAMAPO — More than 1,400 students received degrees today from Rockland Community College at its 54th Commencement Ceremony in the Eugene Levy Fieldhouse on Sunday. The 1,443 total graduates include the classes of May ’14 (846), December ’13 (293) and August ’13 (304). ABC Chief Correspondent Byron Pitts, an award winning journalist, news anchor and […]
Petty Officer 2nd Class Michael Hartlebrewer, an Information Systems Technician (Submarines) from Blauvelt, N.Y. and 2004 graduate of the Academy of Information Technology and Engineering in Stamford, Conn., is serving in the U.S. Navy aboard one of the world’s newest and most technologically sophisticated submarines, the Hawaii-based USS Hawaii (SSN 776). USS Hawaii (SSN 776) […]
Birders of all skill levels flocked to the WCS Bronx Zoo at dawn on Saturday to participate in the Wildlife Conservation Society’s first-ever Bronx Zoo Birdathon. Kenton Gomez from the Bronx claimed first place after identifying 201 bird species in the wild and in the zoo exhibits. Some species identified in the wild include black-throated […]
 Sunday, May 25 The Rockland County Veterans’ Coordinating Council invites everyone to join the Veterans of Rockland County to commemorate Memorial Day 2014 program beginning at 12 noon, Sunday, May 25 at the Frederick Loecher Veterans’ Cemetery, 220 Brick Church Road, New Hempstead, NY. At 1 p.m. there will be an abbreviated service at Gary […]
BY MICHAEL RICONDA NEW CITY – The Clarkstown Police held a press conference today to announce last night’s arrest of four suspects on charges related to the January 25 murder of Clarkstown resident Peggy Nadell, 81. Two of the suspects, Diana Nadell, 50 of Cutler Bay, Florida and Andrea Benson, 25 of Washington D.C., were […]
Kyle Fedorek, 26, of Stony Point, was among 90 nabbed worldwide for using dangerous RAT hacking software, said to make hacking so easy “a caveman can do it.” Read the entire press release from the FBI: Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and George Venizelos, the Assistant Director […]