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NEW CITY Rockland County Sheriff Louis Falco got an earful of static Tuesday when he appeared before the Rockland County Legislature in search of eight new dispatcher jobs.

As Ramapo police seek his brother for questioning in a fatal stabbing, Otha Williams failed to get his bail reduced Wednesday on menacing charges of brandishing a pellet gun that resembled a real weapon at a fight outside a child's party.

St. Augustine's in New City had known for five months that it would close at the end of the school year.

The village's poultry processing plant is back on the table - much smaller in size but still surrounded by residential neighborhoods and raising concerns about odors, traffic and potentially stressing the water and sewage systems.

Once the Nanuet Pirates made a pitching change, the Ramapo Orioles' offense started to dissipate.

They first met when Sharon, born in Israel, was Jonathan's tour guide for his Birthright trip in 2008.

Mollie Friedman of Pearl River was honored for her 52 years of service to the Nanuet Hebrew Center at an event Thursday.

With the legislative session winding down in Albany, all the drama is in the state Senate, where power is shared by the Republicans and the four-member Independent Democratic Conference.

After a six-month stint as Putnam County's Commissioner of Planning, Anthony Ruggiero is returning to Peekskill and taking over as city manager, the city announced Thursday.

Two state lawmakers from Rockland want the state DOT to take another look at the recently completed Route 59 project, after flooding closed the state highway for most of Saturday.

Every month for two years, she guided parents and their children through Harriman State Park, sometimes for full moon hikes.

Clarkstown will begin work on three community centers, spending more than $2.8 million to upgrade the facilities.

An estimated 2,000 people jammed the parking lot of the former Riverspace Arts Center on Sunday afternoon as part of the annual VCS Gay Pride Rockland.

New York City has been Raul Colon's loyal patron, from cover illustrations for The New Yorker to an MTA mural at the 191st St. subway station to artwork in The New York Times.

Lauryn Marie, daughter of Robert and Kristine Lyons of New City, N.Y., will celebrate her 8th birthday July 11. Joining in the celebration will be her mom, dad, Papa Coleman of New City, Grandma Lyons of Clifton , godfather Uncle Dan, godmother Aunt Mare, cousins Danny, Keira, William, Gab, Carla, Carissa, Emily, Liam, Thomas and other aunts, ... (more)

A Mahwah woman who is an elementary school teacher in Rockland County was arrested Tuesday after allegedly driving through Clarkstown, NY while under the influence of prescription drugs, Clarkstown Police said Wednesday.

A Clarkstown elementary school teacher has been arrested after she was found driving in New City while impaired by drugs, police said.

A state appeals panel has thrown out a Haverstraw-based plumber's grand larceny conviction based on an error by the trial judge in instructing the jury on the law.

Troopers charged 14 motorists with drunken driving after recent traffic stops and investigations in Westchester, Rockland and Putnam counties, state police said.

Two dogs were killed and a firefighter slightly injured Monday morning in a blaze that gutted a large, two-story home in a wooded area of Phillips Hill Road.