BY MARC MATURO Rockland County Times’ sports reporter Marc A. Maturo is a lifetime honorary member of the Baseball Writers Association of America. He was the Mets beat writer for the Gannett Westchester Newspapers from 1978-1985, and every year continues to write in the name of Pete Rose on his Hall of Fame ballot. At […]
Five Additional Gaming Companies Agree To Remove More Than 2,100 Registered Sex Offenders’ Accounts Press Release Attorney General Eric T. Schneiderman this week announced that over 2,100 additional accounts of registered sex offenders have been purged from online gaming platforms as part of “Operation: Game Over,” a first-of-its-kind initiative to protect children from predators on […]
BY DIANE DIMOND By the time you read this, I earnestly hope that ex-Marine Lance Cpl. Jon Hammar is a free man. I hope that our State Department has stepped up to help this military hero in his time of need. I hope that politicians in his parents’ home state of Florida have tossed their […]
Average retail gasoline prices in New York have fallen 5.1 cents per gallon in the past week, averaging $3.72/g yesterday, according to GasBuddy’s daily survey of 6,118 gas outlets in New York. This compares with the national average that has fallen 8.0 cents per gallon in the last week to $3.25/g, according to gasoline price […]
Americans from coast to coast are still in mourning following the shocking murder of 26 people, including 20 first graders, at the Sandy Hook Elementary School in the normally quiet town of Newtown, Connecticut on Friday. PHOTOS BY RICK SAMUELS […]
Longtime Venezuelan president and self-described socialist revolutionary Hugo Chavez could be headed to the grave soon. He even has publicly named his preferred successor, Vice President Nicolas Maduro. The 58-year-old Chavez, who has fought cancer several times in the past, has been receiving treatment in Cuba for pelvic cancer and the prognosis does not look […]