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GOSHEN – Emergency responders, law enforcement and community groups helped save 427 lives in Orange County, 136 in Sullivan County and 274 in Ulster County by administering opiate blockers such as Narcan in 2017.But the state’s most recently available data on opiate blocker use doesn't count the lives saved by ordinary citizens such as business owners.Representatives from about 20 Orange County businesses, including the future Legoland New York, learned how to do [...]

MONTICELLO - Sullivan County's corrections officers have agreed to a contract after seven years without one.Civil Service Employees Association Local 853 voted a week ago to ratify a new contract that runs through Dec. 31, according to Dan Hust, director of communications for the county.The Sullivan County Legislature still has to approve the contract. Hust said he expects a vote on the deal at the legislature's regular meeting next month.The bargaining unit is made up [...]

GOSHEN - An attack on one Jew is an attack on all Jews.That was the sentiment of a handful of rabbis and local congregants of chabads in Orange County on Monday, after a gunman killed a woman and injured three people Saturday when he opened fire on about 100 worshipers at the Chabad of Poway in southern California.The latest attack has reminded the Jewish community of the religion's history of persecution, from the dark days of the Holocaust to the shooting six months [...]

GOSHEN — The Orange County Sheriff’s Office will participate in the Empty Chair Teen Initiative which began on April 29 and continues through May 3.Each year, thousands of high school students across New York State look forward to attending their prom and graduation ceremony. These memorable moments for parents, siblings, educators, and the community, become meaningless when a child dies in a car crash.According to the CDC, motor vehicle accidents account for one- [...]

GOSHEN — Following two weekends of trials between Mock Trial teams from 12 local school districts, James I. O'Neill High School and Goshen High School faced each other in the Orange-Ulster BOCES Mock Trial Finals held on April 9 in the Orange County Courthouse.Goshen High School’s team played the role of respondent while James I. O'Neill High School played the petitioner in this year’s hypothetical civil case, “Harley Davison v. Gotham City Department of [...]

NEW YORK (AP) — Woodstock 50 will go on despite the loss of a major financial partner, according to the organizers of the beleaguered anniversary event.In a statement released late Monday, Woodstock 50 co-founder Michael Lang and Woodstock LLC said that they were "committed to ensuring that the 50th anniversary of Woodstock is marked with a festival deserving of its iconic name and place in American history and culture."They said that would continue despite the [...]

DEERPARK — Banned from China as a cult, practitioners of the group known as Falun Gong found a peaceful refuge in the forested hills of upstate New York. Over the years, they built up a compound with a traditional Chinese temple, schools, and rehearsal space for their high-flying, globe-trotting dance troupe, Shen Yun.But the steady growth of Falun Gong's Dragon Springs complex has caused a growing rift with their neighbors, who worry about the effect it is having on the [...]

MOSCOW (AP) — The Kremlin says that Special Counsel Robert Mueller's 400-page report has not offered any credible evidence of Russian interference in the 2016 U.S. presidential election.The redacted report presented on Thursday said that there was no collusion between the Donald Trump campaign and Russian officials but it did document Russian efforts to meddle in the presidential vote.Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters on Friday that there is "no [...]

Gov. Andrew Cuomo bypassed a partisan clash in the Legislature by ordering this week that the state expand eligibility for an existing scholarship program that allows the families of military service members who are killed or disabled in combat or combat training to attend any SUNY or CUNY college for free. Assembly Republicans had lambasted […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — It's now up to Congress to decide what to do with special counsel Robert Mueller's findings about President Donald Trump.While the special counsel declined to prosecute Trump on obstruction of justice, he did not exonerate him, all but leaving the question to Congress. Mueller's report provides fresh evidence of Trump's interference in the Russia probe, challenging lawmakers to respond. The [...]