Monticello News

Police say two men who broke into a Liberty home on Nov. 14 have been arrested. Derrick Fields Jr., 18, of Middletown, and Lyndell Humphrey, 22, of Monticello, attempted to rob a house in the village when they were interrupted by the homeowner and fled in a car, police say.

Hank D'Auria stood in the lot Friday at M&M Auto Group on Main Street with a look of pride on his face.

According to the United States Trotting Association, 59 fourteen year olds have raced this year and many are still competing at this time which may give Monticello Raceway director of racing Eric Warner a bigger pool of possible entrants in the track' s Au Revoir exclusively for 14 year olds.

In its effort to make sure that no family goes without a Thanksgiving meal, United Way of Sullivan County's Project Care is now accepting donations of traditional Thanksgiving foods, nonperishable foods items and frozen turkeys.

Chicago post-punk rawk legends The Jesus Lizard reunited in 2008 and performed at May 2009's ATP vs.

Police say two men have been charged for forging a prescription to obtain the drug endocet.

MONTICELLO A Monticello man has been arrested after he fired shots from a .22 caliber rifle into the area in an attempt to make people his residence.

Police arrested a village man they said fired several rifle shots into the air during a dispute with several people at a house on Spark Drive early Wednesday morning.

A husband and wife have been arrested for allegedly stealing a womana TMs car and threatening her at gunpoint, and police say they may be involved in other similar incidents.

MONTICELLO The man who kept his dead mother's body in his freezer in his Colchester home in October 2008, was sentenced in Sullivan County Court Friday to six months in jail for cashing her social security checks.

Village police arrested four Monticello men involved in a Saturday night fight on Wood Avenue.

Rochester, N.Y. a ' A Henrietta man pleaded guilty Friday to first-degree vehicular manslaughter in a crash that killed a woman in February.

An upstate New York man has been sentenced to six months in jail for hiding his dead 98-year-old mother in a freezer and cashing her Social Security checks.

A Farmington man is facing attempted murder charges after police say he tried to beat a female co-worker to death.

Rochester, N.Y. a ' Juliet Searles, 54, of Rochester appeared in court Friday, accused of hitting her boyfriend with a baseball bat.

Share + Nov 6, 2009 1:35 pm US/Eastern MONTICELLO, N.Y. An upstate New York man who hid his dead 98-year-old mother in a freezer and cashed her Social Security checks has been sentenced to six months in jail.

Don't hang up the harnesses of the 14-year-olds just yet. According to Eric Warner, Monticello Raceway's Director of Racing, the Raceway will again offer a final race for the older veterans in late December, an event which has gone by the name of the Au Revoir Pace.

Sen. Chuck Schumer says the Obama administration will make a critical decision on off-reservation gaming policy "in the coming weeks." Schumer says he recently spoke with Interior Secretary Ken Salazar, who is reviewing what is essentially a blanket ban on off-reservation casinos of the type that have been proposed in Sullivan County.

MONTICELLO Police in Monticello have charged a Monticello man in connection with a scheme to defraud an area supermarket.

The Sullivan County Human Rights Commission and the local chapter of the NAACP are sponsoring a Meet the Candidates night for those seeking office of county sheriff, county district attorney and county treasurer.