New Windsor News

Timothy Handel listens to his guilty verdict at Orange County Court in Goshen on Wednesday, May 30, 2012.

Frank Fornario, supervisor of Blooming Grove, is dropping out of the race for the 99th State Assembly District, making it far more likely that one of the remaining twenty-something candidates will win the seat.

The jury will get the case this afternoon in the murder trial of Timothy Handel in the July 2011 death of his girlfriend, Katie Connolly.

Road captain Keith Hallock leads the Forever Free motorcycle group and others down Broadway in Newburgh during the city's annual Memorial Day parade on Monday.

A conservation easement with the Orange County Land Trust had already protected the land around the Denniston-Steidle house.

Over the weekend, there was a shooting, stabbing, and several illegal gun arrests .

Police busted three women and two men on Thursday during a prostitution sweep. A team of city cops, state troopers and Orange County sheriff's deputies set up their operation on the south side of Newburgh, arresting the women on Lake Street and the men on Ann Street.

Timothy Handel testifying Friday morning in his murder trial, portrayed himself as a dedicated dad and his girlfriend Katie Connolly as a woman who was overwhelmed and distraught in the days before her disappearance last July.

A medical examiner will testify Thursday afternoon in the murder trial of Timothy Handel in the death of his girlfriend, Katie Connolly.

Orange County Industrial Development Agency attorney Philip Crotty plans to retire from the agency where he's worked part time for seven years.

I am going to attend a meet and greet tonight in New Windsor, NY to meet the 5 Democratic candidates to replace Nan Hayworth in the new 18th Congressional District.

State Senator James L. Seward paid tribute Tuesday to Anthony J. D'Arpino of Herkimer as a 2012 inductee to the New York State Senate Veterans Hall of Fame.

Katie Connolly's co-workers testified Tuesday morning in the trial of the man charged with killing her, her boyfriend Timothy Handel.

First Niagara Banks opened in the region Monday, taking over HSBC branches in the Hudson Valley.

Cardinal Peter Turkson, president of the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace at the Vatican, who spoke at Mount Saint Mary College's commencement Saturday, receives an honorary degree from the college president, the Rev.

On Thursday, the second day of Timothy Handel's murder trial in the death and dismemberment of his girlfriend, Kathleen Connolly, Handel's landlady described his possessive attitude toward Connolly.

The murder trial of Timothy Handel in the death and dismemberment of his girlfriend began Wednesday morning in Orange County Court.

Jury selection began Monday in Orange County Court for the murder trial of Timothy Handel in the death of Kathleen Connolly, 27, in New Windsor.

Featured in todays Record Newswatch - Jury selection begins in the trial of Timothy Handel, the man accused of killing his girlfriend and burying her body behind a New Windsor house; food poisoning was the apparent cause of a flu-like outbreak that sent about 150 people to area hospitals and a Town of Newburgh police officer talks a suicidal ... (more)

Donna Ponessa, a top-ranked US Para-Dressage rider, remains on her way to riding at the Paralympics late this summer in London.