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TOWN OF WALLKILL - A Satmar Hasidic organization formed in February to operate religious schools for boys has bought a 17-acre property with eight buildings that used to be the campus of a nonprofit that serves people with developmental disabilities.Congregation Yeshiva Ketane Desatmar bought the former Crystal Run Village site on Stony Ford Road on March 1 for $1.3 million, according to a deed transfer filed Wednesday with the Orange County Clerk's Office. The buyer's address on [...]

TOWN OF NEWBURGH - The FBI and Town of Newburgh police are investigating several fake, inert explosive devices that were found in two parking lots on Saturday.About 6:30 p.m. Saturday police found the devices in the parking lots of the Stop & Shop supermarket and the Newburgh Mall on Route 300, but they did not pose a threat, according to a news release from Town of Newburgh police on Sunday.The state police Bomb Disposal Unit and troopers assisted Newburgh officers [...]

At least four bills already were pending in Albany to increase by varying amounts the $200 credit that volunteer firefighters and ambulance workers currently can claim to lower their state income taxes. But a group of Republican lawmakers, most of whom had sponsored one or more of those credit-hiking bills, went for broke this month […]

Former NBA star Dennis Rodman has been accused of attempted battery after he allegedly slapped a man at Buddha Sky Bar in Delray Beach, Fla., during a May 17 party.The report was filed by Jeff Soulouque, who said he was invited to the bar by David Lee Roth — not the Roth of Van Halen fame — who was friends with Rodman.Soulouque told the Delray Police Department he was “hanging out” at the rooftop bar at Atlantic and Railroad avenues and talking to [...]

BLOOMINGBURG - Four power outages have been reported in the Bloombingburg area, according to an Orange and Rockland Electric and Gas outage map.There are about 1,885 customers affected by the outage, according to the map.Power is estimated to be returned by 4:24 p.m., according to the map.Crews are en-route to address the outage, an O&R customer service representative said.It appears a tree was knocked down, causing the outage, the [...]

Entry Price: $26,995Price as Tested: $27,890This week, were driving the all-new 2019 Volkswagen Jetta GLI, delivered in a special 35th Anniversary livery and sporting a 2.0 liter turbocharged four-cylinder engine coupled to a six-speed manual transmission. Although still classified as a Jetta, this new GLI is now a standalone Jetta performance sedan that starts at $25,995 in S trim. Our GLI Special Edition starts at $26,995, while the third member of the GLI family, the [...]

MONTGOMERY – The state Attorney General’s office confirmed Friday that it is investigating Thursday morning’s fatal shooting of a man walking along Interstate 84 by a state police trooper.State police identified the man Friday as Luke H. Patterson, 41, of Tannersville, a village in Greene County.Patterson was apparently the driver of a car that became disabled in the westbound lanes of I-84 between exits 5A and 5 just before 2 a.m. Thursday. [...]

Rep. Antonio Delgado introduced a bill with five Republican and Democratic co-sponsors on Wednesday that would encourage employers to hire the spouses of military service personnel by making a portion of those wages eligible for an existing tax credit for the hiring of veterans and other types of employees. "Military families make immense sacrifices for […]

The Assembly approved a bill on Monday that prohibits making, selling or possessing plastic guns to prevent the proliferation of firearms that can be made with 3-D printing technology and can evade metal detectors. The proposal had been approved the previous week by the Senate and now goes to Gov. Andrew Cuomo for his signature. […]

TOWN OF WALLKILL - The number of arrests in the Town of Wallkill are "way up," according to Supervisor Edward Diana.Town of Wallkill police Chief Robert Hertman said at Thursday evening's Town Board meeting that arrests have gone up 19 percent compared with last year."We're targeting people who are making our communities unsafe, specifically people involved in the drug trade," Hertman said.At a previous meeting, on April 28, Diana said the town goes through crime [...]