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KIRYAS JOEL — Throngs of Orthodox Jewish visitors from all over are expected to travel to Kiryas Joel on Tuesday to worship at the grave of the founder of the Satmar Hasidic movement on the 40th anniversary of his death.The annual pilgrimage to the mausoleum of Grand Rebbe Joel Teitelbaum typically attracts thousands of people to the Kiryas Joel cemetery on Schunnemunk Road. The yertzheit, or anniversary of Teitelbaum's death, is believed to be a sacred occasion on which his [...]

On Aug. 10 the 100th Brinckerhoff Family Reunion was held at the home of Leah (Brinckerhoff) and Ralph Larocca in Westbrookville. Descendants of Charles and Harriet Brinckerhoff of Circleville in the late 1800’s, have gathered every year since 1919. Brinckerhoffs as far as six generations later enjoyed food, games, old photos and meeting family members. The oldest in attendance was Richard Brinckerhoff of Virginia and the youngest was Lucas (Brinckerhoff) Vavricka of Middletown. Scott [...]

The negotiated plea came after an appeals court threw out the 2008 conviction of the 32-year-old rapper, born Robert Williams, last month.

During this year's gathering of leaders of the world's wealthiest democracies, Trump went to great lengths to portray it as something of a lovefest, papering over significant disagreements on major issues.

"He robbed me of my dreams, of my chance to pursue a career I adored," said Jennifer Araoz, who has accused Epstein of raping her in his New York mansion when she was 15.

ALBANY - An Ulster County man was sentenced to 15 months in prison for fraudulently obtaining more than $38,000 in benefits from the Social Security Administration, the U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of New York announced Tuesday. Anthony Alvarez, 38, of Ellenville, pleaded guilty at the beginning of the year, admitting that from January 2011 to February 2015, he concealed from the Social Security Administration that he was living in the Philippines so he could [...]

All of that is on top of the main attention-grabber of the 2020 census so far — a citizenship question that was nixed by the Supreme Court, dropped by the Trump administration, resuscitated briefly and then abandoned again.

U.S. District Judge Howard Sachs put a pause on the law as a legal challenge against it plays out in court, which could take months.

The indictment filed by the U.S. attorney's office in San Jose, California, is an offshoot of a lawsuit filed in 2017 by Waymo, a self-driving car pioneer spun off from Google.

Two suspended Muslim state prison guards were reinstated hours after bringing a class action lawsuit on Monday that accused the Department of Corrections and Community Supervision of religious discrimination for ordering them to shave their beards.Plaintiff Brian Sughrim has worked for DOCCS since 1994 while fellow plaintiff David Feliciano went to work for the agency around 2000. Sughrim's last day of work at the Fishkill Correctional Facility was Aug. 10, and Feliciano's was Aug. [...]