Liberty News

A group of parents, residents and staff form one of six groups debating ideas for closing an $850,000 budget gap faced by the Liberty school district, during a public forum on Feb.

Valentine's Day is right around the corner, but it's not too late to plan a great night out or even a quick getaway and still save money on one's sweetie.

A convicted Liberty sex offender who faces new charges of sexually abusing a 15-year-old girl was indicted Wednesday for allegedly failing to register his Myspace account as required under state law.

Cathy Paty, vice president of the Sullivan County Chamber of Commerce, says visits to the chamber's recreational vehicle far exceed foot traffic to its former Broadway office.

But for one snapper his ideal subject stands just a stone's throw away from his house - the iconic Statue of Liberty.

In the preface of her biography, Sojourner Truth wrote: "O the 'fantastic tricks' which the American people are 'playing before high Heaven!' O their profane use of the sacred name of Liberty!" Sojourner Truth, abolitionist, evangelist, orator, and women's right advocate, was born a slave named Isabella Baumfree in 1797 in Ulster County, N.Y.

Some local residents are pushing to have the ideas of animal-behavior specialist Temple Grandin used in the new slaughterhouse planned for Liberty.

A Bronx man was arrested early Saturday morning after, police said, he hit someone in the face with a pool stick and tried to drive away from the scene.

Valentine's Day is right around the corner, but it's not too late to plan a great night out or even a quick getaway and still save money on one's sweetie.

A Sullivan County grand jury indicted Jensy Delacruz, 19, of Monticello, Wednesday in two shootings in August in the Village of Liberty.

A former Sullivan County Probation Department employee who admitted stealing more than $16,000 from a restitution account was sentenced to one-to-two years in state prison Thursday, District Attorney Jim Farrell said.

Authorities say a student is recovering from hypothermia after he had to be rescued when he left his vocational school and attempted to swim across a partially frozen pond in upstate New York.

U.S. Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand is asking that the seven United States Department of Agriculture offices in New York slated for closure, including the one in Liberty, be kept open.

A Liberty teen was arrested Wednesday for allegedly stealing jewelry and electronics.

A Monticello man who had his 36-year sentence for heading a large cocaine operation in Sullivan County thrown out pleaded guilty Friday to multiple drug charges and money laundering.

U.S. Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand is asking that the seven United States Department of Agriculture offices in New York slated for closure, including the one in Liberty, be kept open.

Sullivan County's new Legislature joined the chorus of those asking the state Department of Environmental Conservation to withdraw its draft environmental impact statement for natural-gas drilling until more safety information can be compiled.

Sullivan County Arson Investigators are probing a three-alarm fire that heavily damaged an old boarding house Sunday afternoon.