Harriman News

It has been five years since US Senator Charles Schumer secured $1 million to study widening Route 17 from Harriman to Monticello from two lanes in each direction to three lanes.

A potential cellular tower looming over the Antrim Playhouse threatens a historic district and the theater itself.

But instead of a new business or a promising startup moving to Harriman, it turned out to be a new $40 million laboratory for the state Department of Agriculture and Markets that will house 49 workers already employed by the state.

Multiple police units startled a car-load of young people at the Harriman Metro-North train station after a caller falsely reported that he was being threatened with guns by members of a gang.

The state Court of Appeals yesterday affirmed on narrow grounds the recognition of same-sex marriages by a county executive and a state agency, but by a bare 4-3 margin declined to extend full recognition to all such marriages contracted in other states and countries where they are legal.

HUNTER LAKE CAMPGROUND, PARKSVILLE, NY5 to 6 a.m. - Diane Schuler 's husband, Daniel, wakes up, cleans his boat.

A custodian at Purchase College was found dead Tuesday in the theater building, the Medical Examiner's Office said.

Diane Schuler, who police said was drunk and high on marijuana before she sparked a fiery fatal crash on the Taconic State Parkway, looked ill twice as she stood on the side of the road, bent over with her hands on her knees as if she was about to vomit before the accident, according to a state police report.

Planning to attend the Yankees victory parade in Manhattan? With street closures, no parking and the usual congestion, driving in is a nonstarter.

Two longtime Republican incumbents lost their Town Board seats, thanks to the changing loyalties of powerful voting blocs in the Hasidic Village of Kiryas Joel.

When it comes to politics, no matter how popular you may be, sometimes you just can't win them all.

Five Orange County government employees could lose their jobs because of state-ordered changes in a program that gives food vouchers and nutrition advice to mothers with infants or young children.

The McGarrah Tavern and Stagecoach Inn will be the setting for the Election Day Pancake Festival on Tuesday to benefit the restoration of the Inn by the Masonic Historical Society.

Back in the late 1990s, after years of delays, the modernization of Albany International Airport finally took off under the slogan, "getting it done." And done it got.

Police spent nearly two months on an undercover drug sting that resulted in the arrest of two residents of the area on Oct.

Commuters only face another six months of construction before those huge signs that have been sprouting over the New York State Thruway shed their black shrouds and bring highway speed E-ZPass to the Woodbury Toll Plaza.

Tuesday's discussion, hosted by Sen. Liz Krueger at the Capitol, will examine the ways in which "not only the property taxes New Yorkers pay have become sources of significant fiscal stress, but so have the systema s relief measures." Albany Mayor Jerry Jennings is the only city leader currently slated to take part.

Henry Coffey tours the former Sacred Heart Orphanage in Kearny where he and another man allege they were sexually abused as a child by nuns.

From a sidewalk in Kearny, Henry Coffey, 80, points to the sections of the old Sacred Heart Orphanage where he says nuns molested and beat him as a boy in the early 1940s: the laundry room; the nuns' quarters; the classrooms.

Mechanic Bruce Seabrook pours 2 quarts of engine disabler into the engine of Fritz Kaestner's 1988 Dodge Ram 250 van at C & H Auto Salvage in Campbell Hall on Sept.