Middletown News

Angela Burnett of Glen Wild pleaded guilty Monday in Orange County Court to fleeing a collision that left a 15-year-old Middletown girl with a fractured skull.

If he retired, the city Police Commission would choose a replacement from a Civil Service police chief list.

Mayor-elect Joe DeStefano told a jury Thursday that when he saw a yelling, threatening Hommy Colon walking toward him on the street, he reminded Colon there was a court order for the man to stay away.

Virginia Thoby is one of a handful of early voters at Wallkill Town Hall. Georgeanne Witz is a poll monitor.

The trend in the mayoral race was clear as the early returns came in to Joe DeStefano's campaign headquarters, and each new district expanded the mandate.

Thursday's episode of "The Rachael Ray Show" will feature Orange Regional Medical Center's Horton Campus in one of its segments.

Andrew Leider thinks he can do a better job representing the 1st Ward on the Town Board than Councilman John King.

The City of Middletown has received approval for an $18,000 matching grant from the Hudson River Valley Greenway for work on the Middletown segment of the Orange County Heritage Trail.

Middletown police say they will be increasing patrols and enforcing a zero tolerance rule of the city curfew ordinance over the Halloween weekend.

The Westtown homeowner who shot a bear outside his home earlier this month has been cited by state Department of Environmental Conservation police.

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Multiple fire departments are being called to a structure fire at 123 Brola Road in Howells.

Police say a burglar knew to disconnect the surveillance camera at the Playtogs Super Store - but not before it captured his picture.

Ding dong, the snakeheads are dead. Now the state Department of Environmental Conservation, having used the fish poison rotenone to wipe out everything with gills in its eradication efforts, will restock Ridgebury Lake and some of the privately owned ponds along Catlin Creek.

Robert and Constance McDonald don't exactly rake it in as Orange County election inspectors, a job that requires them to spend about 14 hours helping voters inside a polling station at SUNY Orange at every election.

A Middletown man seriously injured in a bar fight 10 days ago has died, and police have classified his death as a homicide.

Feast on apple pancakes, French toast, eggs and sausages from 8 a.m. to noon at the Neversink Valley Area Museum, D&H Canal Park Visitors' Center, 58 Hoag Road, Cuddebackville.

The thrift-store cat disappeared one Sunday in June when he accidentally hitched a ride in a customer's car.

Colleagues chuckle when they describe Orange County Executive Ed Diana as "passionate," because his speaking manner when heated is so forceful it approaches the lapel-gripping style Lyndon Johnson once used to bend the U.S. Senate to his will.

Anyone who knew "Holly" won't be surprised to learn that he wrote his own obituary ! He probably figured it was the only way to get the facts right.