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ORANGE COUNTYCHESTER$28,756,795Yes: No:SCHOOL BOARD(2 SEATS, 3-YEAR TERMS)John Pasichnyk: Brian Hor: CORNWALL$73,527,347Yes: No:SCHOOL BOARD(3 SEATS, 3-YEAR TERMS)Peter Erwin (incumbent): Brendan Carty: Philomena McLaughlin Ross: Nancy Bryan [...]

Rep. Elise Stefanik, the New York congresswoman who’s pushing to raise the low number of Republican women in Congress, endorsed Chele Chiavacci Farley this week for next year’s race for New York’s 18th Congressional District seat. "Chele Farley brings intelligence, energy, and determination to her race for Congress,” Stefanik said in a press release from […]

A baby ripped from the womb of a murdered Chicago teen is clinging to life, officials said Friday.The baby, Yadiel Yovany Lopez, is in critical condition after suffering from a lack of oxygen in the minutes before he was born.Three people — Clarisa Figueroa, Desiree Figueroa and Piotr Bobak— have been charged in the murder of Marlen Ochoa-Lopez, 19, [...]

A bill proposed by Sen. James Skoufis in response to concerns over Kiryas Joel’s new well in Cornwall and approved by the Senate in March cleared the Assembly this week and will be sent to Gov. Andrew Cuomo for approval or rejection. The legislation, first introduced last year when Skoufis was an assemblyman and passed […]

MONTGOMERY - A woman and man from Beacon died early Friday following a single-vehicle crash on Interstate 84, state police said.State police identified the people as Heather Morgan, 36, and Derick Jones, 37.Police said that at 6:41 a.m., Morgan was driving a Dodge Journey and Jones was a passenger, heading westbound on I-84 near Maybrook between exits 5 and 5A when the SUV veered into the center median and struck a tree. Morgan and Jones died from their injuries, police [...]

Sullivan County ranked tops in the state in April for growing non-farm jobs, according to new state Department of Labor data. Sullivan County's total non-farm employment rose to 29,700, up 6.5 percent, in April compared with last year, widely leading the next closest counties' growth or 2.1 percent (Cortland), 1.7 percent (Clinton) and 1.5 percent (Essex).  [...]

Rep. Sean Patrick Maloney gave an impassioned speech from the floor and then presided over a House vote on Friday on a bill that would fully establish LGBT rights in federal law and prohibit discrimination based on sexual orientation or gender identity. The House approved the Equality Act in a 236-173 vote, with eight Republicans […]

MONROE — The Hasidic group that petitioned to form a new village next to Kiryas Joel has sued the Town of Monroe to demand its proposal move forward and to stop what it alleges was an attempt by Kiryas Joel's administrator to derail the village plans.The conflict over the proposed Village of Seven Springs is spelled out in a convoluted sequence of events, involving multiple revisions of the village petition, a mugging outside Monroe Town Hall in which one of those versions [...]

GOSHEN - The grand opening of the Goshen Public Library’s new building at 366 Main St., slated for Saturday, has been postponed until further notice, library officials said on Friday.The culprit: The rainy weather has delayed some of the work, which in turn has delayed the library’s temporary certificate of occupancy, said library Trustee Emily Collado.They’re hoping to reschedule the grand opening for mid-June, she said.Events planned for [...]

Francois Barcomb, a high school physics teacher from New Paltz, won the "Jeopardy!" Teachers Tournament on Friday night.He finished with a two-day total of $41,600, good for the $100,000 grand prize and a spot in the next "Jeopardy!" Tournament of Champions.Conor Quinn, a world history teacher from Albany, finished second with a two-day total of $32,000. Sara DelVillano, a music teacher from Lanham, Md., was third with $19,600. Quinn's second-place prize was $50,000; [...]