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WHITE PLAINS - A New Windsor tax preparer has been charged in federal court with tax evasion and multiple counts of aiding and assisting in filing false or fraudulent federal tax returns, according to federal prosecutors.Prosecutors said Eversley Barrett, 64, owner of Eversley Tax in New Windsor, prepared and submitted, on average, more than 700 tax returns per year from 2012-2016, and that he falsified filing statuses and fraudulently inflated rental real estate losses, [...]

MONTICELLO - A Monticello man has been charged with stalking and slashing a woman with a knife last year.Trevor Nelson, 20, was detained by New York City police Tuesday on a charge of petit larceny and extradited by sheriff's deputies back to Sullivan County, according to a news release from Sullivan County Undersheriff Eric Chaboty.Nelson was wanted on a variety of charges, including felony counts of burglary and assault, as well as misdemeanor menacing and possession [...]

On seven occasions last weekend, a phone call was made to the police about a man disturbing the peace at Orlando-area Starbucks Coffee, Surfanista Cafe and Sassy Granny’s Smoothies locations.The man allegedly threatened to destroy everyone with his very own army of turtles, [...]

British police on Thursday hauled a bearded and shouting Julian Assange from the Ecuadorian Embassy where he was holed up for nearly seven years, and the U.S. charged the WikiLeaks founder with conspiring with former Army intelligence analyst Chelsea Manning to get their hands on government secrets.

Assembly Republicans teed off on their chamber’s ruling party this week after a committee tabled a recurring bill that would enable the children of any New Yorker who is killed in military combat to attend any state college for free. "We will never be able to do enough to thank the brave men and women […]

Reps. Sean Patrick Maloney and Antonio Delgado both denounced a decision announced Thursday by the Environmental Protection Agency on the removal of toxic PCBs from the river that bisects each of their congressional districts. The EPA issued a "Certification of Completion of the Remedial Action" to General Electric, which dumped the chemicals into the Hudson […]

KINGSTON — Fourteen years had failed to dim the memories of the shattering moments when Marine sniper Eddie Ryan’s parents first met Juan Figueroa.On Thursday, Chris and Angie Ryan collided with Figueroa in a flurry of hugs at the doors of the two-story, marble-floored rotunda on the edge of Kingston where Figueroa works. As Eddie, a blanket spread across him, watched, a damp April chill wrapped around the Ryans in their street clothes and Figueroa in the black [...]

ALBANY — The Environmental Protection Agency declined for now to make General Electric restart dredging in the Hudson River, triggering a wave of condemnation Thursday from New York officials and environmentalists who say contaminant levels from its industrial pollution remain too high.The EPA issued a certificate to GE saying that it has completed its remedial action under the federal Superfund program. Critics of the cleanup wanted the EPA to withhold the certificate and to [...]

PORT JERVIS — Concerns about damage to Deerpark’s streams, roads and rural atmosphere brought about 400 people to Port Jervis High School on Wednesday night for the town Planning Board's public hearing on expansion plans for the 393-acre Dragon Springs Buddhist Inc. campus on Galley Hill Road.Most controversial are plans to build a 100,000-gallon-per-day sewage treatment plant to accommodate additional visitors and residents in proposed new buildings. Treated water [...]

Opponents of a bill that would legalize and regulate short-term apartment rentals for tourists in New York City are criticizing state Sen. James Skoufis for sponsoring the proposal after an Airbnb political action committee spent $500,000 on campaign ads and mailings for him in October.The bill, first introduced in the Assembly in 2017 and the Senate in 2018, would lift a 2011 state ban on renting out city apartments for fewer than 30 days, a restriction that effectively has [...]