On February 4 at about 4:55 a.m. the Town of Ramapo Police Department and emergency medical personnel found a deceased 47-year-old in a room at Howard Johnson’s hotel in Airmont. The Rockland County Medical Examiner’s office assisted the Ramapo Police. There is no criminality suspected and the deceased appears to have died from natural causes. […]
BY CAROL McILMURRAY Orangetown police officers responded to a report of a man breaking into parked cars on Sunset Road in Blauvelt at 3:47 a.m. Monday morning. The suspect later identified as Bassem Yousef, 28, of Braircliff Manor, NY, led officers on a foot chase through local residents’ backyards, woods, and a stream between Sunset […]
NEW CITY – The Clarkstown Police Department announced on Monday that they were investigating a spate of incidents which involved counterfeit $100 bills passed at commercial locations around Nanuet. The first two incidents occurred at locations on Route 59 last week. The first involved a female suspect who passed a counterfeit on January 26 to […]
Rockland pummeled with snowfall, icy rain expected later BY MICHAEL RICONDA NEW CITY – Last week’s “historic” blizzard might have passed with little impact or fanfare, but this week’s snowfall might retain some of the impact promised before last week’s dud. Preliminary predictions estimated anywhere from 8 to 12 inches of snow for most of […]
North Rockland Cheer Team Makes History Years of teamwork, determination and the indomitable Red Raiders spirit led North Rockland’s cheerleading team to achieve the unbelievable this week: they were crowned national champions after a no doubt performance in Dallas, Texas. The team, led by coach Lauren Bunyan Gould for the past several years, blew […]
RAMAPO AND SUFFERN POLICE DEFUSE POTENTIALLY DEADLY SITUATION A large police event took place Friday afternoon around 5 p.m. Suffern Police Chief Clarke Osborne stated, “It was a pursuit that Ramapo PD got into in Sloatsburg. When it came into Suffern we assisted them in boxing the car in and removing the driver who was […]