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WOODBURY – An Orange County woman and an Ulster County man were charged with drug possession after their vehicle was stopped on the Thruway on Saturday for multiple vehicle and traffic violations.State police said an interview with the driver and passenger established probable cause to search the vehicle.Troopers found approximately seven grams of cocaine in the vehicle.In addition, police said the driver, Vikky H. Alcantar, 37, of Newburgh, possessed [...]

LIBERTY - Two Monticello women have been charged with attacking a man with a hammer in his apartment and then stealing items.Kaivena Woodall and Tylajah Jordan, both 22, were taken into custody on Feb. 25 after an investigation into the robbery on Feb. 6, according to Village of Liberty police on Monday.Woodall and Jordan were both charged with second-degree robbery and second-degree assault, both felonies; and fourth-degree criminal possession of weapon, petit larceny [...]

LIBERTY — Cornell Cooperative Extension Sullivan County (CCESC)’s Caregiver Resource Center offers several free workshops in March. These educational events will be held at various locations across Sullivan County.March 6 - Hospital to Home, 1-2 p.m.Held at: Extension Education Center, 64 Ferndale-Loomis Rd., LibertyThis web seminar provides information to help families plan and prepare for a safe return home from a medical [...]

ALBANY — Advocacy groups will be in Albany to push the Cuomo administration to ensure that New York state residents are fully counted in next year's federal census.The New York Immigration Coalition plans to rally Tuesday with lawmakers at the Capitol to urge Democratic Gov. Andrew Cuomo to include $40 million in census funding in his state budget proposal. The money would be used for census outreach strategies to ensure an accurate count.Advocates say [...]

ALBANY— Gov. Andrew Cuomo says the number of visitors to New York state parks, historic sites and campgrounds topped 74 million in 2018.The Democrat announced Monday that visitation increased by 4 percent, from 71.5 million in 2018 to a record-breaking 74.1 million last year.The increase comes as the state continues the governor's Parks 2020 initiative to upgrade the state's system of more than 200 parks, historic sites and campgrounds.State officials [...]

Grace DeNoya is used to getting snickers when people learn she's majoring in marijuana."My friends make good-natured jokes about getting a degree in weed," said DeNoya, one of the first students in a new four-year degree program in medicinal plant chemistry at Northern Michigan University."I say, 'No, it's a serious degree, a chemistry degree first and foremost. It's hard work. Organic chemistry is a bear.'"As a green gold rush in legal marijuana and its non- [...]

WASHINGTON (AP) — Hillary Clinton says she won't run for president in 2020, but vows she's "not going anywhere."The former secretary of state, senator and first lady ruled out another campaign during an interview posted Monday by New York TV station News12 .Clinton, who lost the 2016 presidential election to Donald Trump, says, "I'm going to keep on working and speaking and standing up for what I believe."She says, "What's at stake in our country, the [...]

MONTGOMERY – The Rev. Daniel O’Hare, pastor of Holy Name of Mary Church in Montgomery and Church of the Assumption in Maybrook, has been accused of sexual abuse of a minor.The Archdiocese of New York said it learned of the allegation from the Orange County District Attorney’s office last week. The alleged abuse happened sometime in the 1990s, according to the archdiocese.O’Hare has denied the accusation but has agreed to step aside and not [...]

ALBANY— Advocates for New Yorkers 60 years and older say millions more in state funding is needed to provide in-home services such as meal deliveries.Officials from AARP's New York chapter and other organizations that deal with issues facing older residents are lobbying lawmakers in Albany on Tuesday to push for another $25 million in state funding.The groups say the funding will help New Yorkers age in their own homes rather than in costlier, taxpayer-funded [...]

NEW YORK (AP) — A late winter storm dropped more than a foot of snow on parts of the northeastern U.S. overnight — prompting school closures across the region, knocking out power to thousands and slowing the Monday morning commute to a crawl.The storm, which hit the hardest in the early morning hours of Monday, dumped more than a foot of fresh snow on a large swath of New England, hitting some areas that had gotten off relatively unscathed for most of the winter. [...]