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An Ontario County man has been accused of groping teenage girls at a Walt Disney World water park.

Four teens went to school Saturday morning and were charged with trespass after answering the call of nature, Rye Brook police said today.

Click here to see the mugshot! ORLANDO, Fla. - Authorities say a New York man pulled the bikini top off a 15-year-old girl and touched her chest at a Walt Disney World water park.

Ah, the warm, lazy months - exactly when the residents of safe, quiet neighborhoods like the one John Di Lapi lives in let down their guard.

We're the US of A Slice of Pizza, if the magazine GQ is right. The June issue, leaving newstands soon, features the 25 best pizzas in the country, a topic guaranteed to start a national argument.

Plain Jane vanilla soft-serve is great, and so is a pint of Ben & Jerry's eaten standing in front of the freezer.

WHITE PLAINS - When a bus rapid transit system finally arrives in Rockland and Westchester, its buses could share lanes with car pools, have their own dedicated lanes, and, in some cases, travel high above traffic.

Once a warehouse for some of New York City's most unwanted homeless men, Camp La Guardia could become a model community in which affordable apartments, senior housing and single-family homes are situated around two community centers with offices, shops and educational buildings.

Hamptonburgh - New York State Police say there was a fatal accident earlier today.

Utility companies have restored power to most of the 25,000 customers in our region who were knocked out by strong thunderstorms Friday night.

How the Sotomayor nomination revived the debate over eminent domain abuse Reason Online by Damon W. Root That headline refers to the case of Didden vs.

Mountco will be unveiling its site plan Wednesday night for the development of an 807-unit community on the property that formerly housed the 1,000-bed homeless shelter known as Camp La Guardia.

Eduardo Penalver, a prominent property scholar, has written an interesting, but I think ultimately unsuccessful defense of Judge Sonia Sotomayor's ruling in the Didden case , which I described and criticized here , here , and here .

Laura Tagasheva longs for the days when she could paint her fingernails, blow dry her hair and carry her 6-year-old daughter.

Congressman John Hall, D-Dover Plains, will appear with the parents of 1st Lt. Louis Allen on Monday at the post office to rename the facility in the deceased soldier's honor.

The independent, non-partisan Institute for Justice announced Tuesday it successfully negotiated a settlement with the Village of Port Chester, New York in the wake of a 2008 federal court victory by local businessman William Brody.

The New York Times left out key facts in reporting on a 2nd Circuit ruling that Sonia Sotomayor joined in a case involving the Fifth Amendment's Takings Clause, resulting in a significantly one-sided article that bolstered critics of the ruling.

Supreme Court nominees almost never comment on recent decisions from the court they hope to join.

Two buses full of commercial real estate brokers drove around Orange County for four hours last week.