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MONTGOMERY — An off-duty police officer who was seriously injured in a December crash has sued the Crawford Police Department and the officer he claims pursued a fleeing suspect, leading to the crash. Kristopher Kolvenbach, the plaintiff, is suing Officer Peter Cunningham, the Town of Crawford and the Crawford Police Department. He is also suing the fleeing suspect's mother, Jennifer Vergona,… → Read More
NEW WINDSOR - A Sefer Torah, a handwritten scroll containing the five books of Moses, can take a year to write, costing tens of thousands of dollars. → Read More
MOUNT HOPE - More than 20 horses died in a barn fire at the Mount Hope Training Center early Saturday morning. Vini Tankasali, Orange County’s deputy commissioner for fire services, said the fire at one of the center's barns on Guymard Turnpike killed 24 horses. “All the (horses) in the barn perished,” Tankasali said Sunday. Otisville Fire Department responded to the fire along with 10 other… → Read More
MOUNT HOPE - Several horses died in a barn fire at the Mount Hope Training Center early Saturday morning. Vini Tankasali, Orange County's deputy commissioner for fire services, said the fire at the barn on Guymard Turnpike killed more than 20 horses. An exact number was not immediately available. Otisville Fire Department responded to the fire along with 10 other departments. Tankasali said the… → Read More
VILLAGE OF GOSHEN - “Help us to have in our lives their courage in danger, their steadfastness in trial, their perseverance in difficulty, their loyalty when loyalty was costly,” the Rev. David Kingsley started the service on Monday morning.It wasn’t his usual service at the First Presbyterian Church in Goshen.Instead, it was a Memorial Day program held after the Village of Goshen’s parade.The… → Read More
WALDEN - Allister Rivera checks the mailbox each afternoon when he arrives home from work.Then he walks in the front door of his raised-ranch home on Brook Road, where he's greeted by splintered rafters that jut down into the kitchen, pointing at tufts of insulation on the floor.He checks on the home daily, in disarray and unlivable, before heading off to his hotel.The oak tree in Melanie and… → Read More
KINGSTON - Two people were rescued from a boat after it hit a tugboat on the Rondout Creek on Saturday evening, according to the Kingston Fire Department. → Read More
Water poured through a hole in the Cornwall High School roof.A tornado touched down in Newburgh.Tuesday's storm toppled trees, blocked roads and caused → Read More
Mike Beck got the call at 6 a.m. almost a year ago, on May 28. It was the owner of a halfway house in the state of Florida.His son, 26-year-old Ethan, had → Read More
CITY OF NEWBURGH - A City of Newburgh man was charged with felony weapon possession on Sunday. Orange County Sheriff's deputies stopped a vehicle on Liberty Street in the City of Newburgh shortly after noon on Sunday for traffic violations, according to a news release. The driver, Tyshe Williams Jr., 21, had 94 bags of marijuana in his jacket and a loaded Ruger handgun, the release said.… → Read More
NEW PALTZ - Aside from the obvious goal of getting elected, many political candidates aim to have their voice heard and set themselves apart from their → Read More
TOWN OF NEWBURGH - “I feel like a scientist!” Megan Ameigh said, standing in the Quassaick Creek, donning a set of waders and with a bucket full of eels in hand.Ameigh, 14, took care to count the see-through eels, which are only a few inches long.They’re called glass eels, the youngest life stage of the American eel, a species that is counted annually by the state Department of Environmental… → Read More
TOWN OF WAWAYANDA - The president of the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion died in a plane crash Saturday morning. Rabbi Aaron Panken, the → Read More
CRAWFORD - The Abbingdon Hill Pet Animal Cemetery and Crematory in Crawford was in limbo for a while, but that uncertainty is at an end.When the cemetery’s phone line was disconnected recently, pet owners took to Facebook, worried for the future of the Youngblood Road location.Rita Levine, a real estate broker in the region, took on the challenge of reviving the cemetery, having eight pets of… → Read More
MONROE - A Central Valley woman has been charged with grand larceny after police say she stole jewelry from several Kiryas Joel homes. State police arrested Maria Caudillo, 30, on Sunday, according to a news release from state police. Caudillo stole jewelry from several homes in Kiryas Joel while working as a housekeeper, police said. She was charged with two counts of third-degree grand larceny… → Read More
VILLAGE OF WARWICK - A few smaller trees, neither deciduous nor evergreen, joined the collection of larger ones that graced Stanley Deming Park in the → Read More
KINGSTON - An appellate court has upheld the a November 2015 jury verdict convicting Kevin Warren of driving while intoxicated and first-degree aggravated → Read More
SHAWANGUNK - The Pine Bush community was on edge for days last June, keeping their curtains closed and windows locked, waiting for updates on the two fugitives from Tennessee believed to be in the area. On Tuesday, a Shawangunk man pleaded guilty to helping the fugitives. Richard Dana, 55, of Upper Mountain Road, pleaded guilty to third-degree hindering prosecution, a misdemeanor, on Tuesday in… → Read More
A man who claims he was injured after another man led police on a chase from New Windsor to downtown Newburgh is suing the Town of New Windsor, the City → Read More
PINE BUSH - The Pine Bush School District's updated budget proposal adds security personnel at every building in the district, addressing concerns from → Read More