New Windsor News

Reverend Dr. Coleman Briggs has retired after 52 years of being the New Hope Missionary Baptist Church pastor.

An Orange County Grand Jury has indicted an Ossining man on charges of aggravated vehicular homicide and manslaughter following a crash that killed two people.

Finnegan is chief executive officer of Continental Organics LLC, a sustainable agriculture company in New Windsor.

Rep. Sean Patrick Maloney and New Windsor Supervisor George Green expressed confidence Thursday morning that efforts to move the FBI's Hudson Valley Resident Agency office to Stewart Airport soon will bear fruit.

A substitute teacher was arraigned Thursday in Orange County Court on charges that she sexually assaulted a young boy over the course of a year.

Nonperishable food items will be accepted at locations in Dutchess, Orange and Ulster counties.

"SMIRK" - Pine Bush author and humor columnist Carol Nelson Falcone reads from her book "Smirk," based on her column, at 7 p.m. at Elting Memorial Library, 93 Main St., New Paltz.

EPL/Environmental Advocates says state Sen. David Valesky, D-Oneida, right, is tied for the worst environmental record of any senator this session.

Give a kid like Thomas Hill millions of bug-eyed, stubby black cicadas crawling around his grandmother's backyard, and you've got a big cicada fan.

Patricia "Patty" Mitchell Valdina, of New Windsor, a lifetime resident of the area, entered into rest on Wednesday, June 5, 2013 at home with her family be her side.

Officers discovered 60 to 80 people physically fighting inside and outside of Pollo Rico, extending in the parking lot of the Rec Center across Washington Street.

Winners of the 2013 Orange County's Rising Stars Award have been chosen. These awards recognize people between the ages of 21 and 40 who are up-and-coming leaders in their professional and volunteer lives.

Neighbors who provided suspect and vehicle descriptions helped police nab a Marlboro woman charged Saturday with stealing jewelry and money from a house in New Paltz on Monday morning.

NEW YORK The New York City Department of Environmental Protection has begun the work connecting the Catskill and Delaware aqueducts for the first time.

Parents like Courtney Baxter are anxious while awaiting the Newburgh Teachers' Association and the mid-Hudson's largest school district to strike a deal soon.

An amazing day of culture, beauty, nature, and fresh air is close at hand. About an hour from Albany in New Windsor, NY, the Storm King Art Center is located.

Don't let it be said today's young people have no idea what the nation's war veterans did for them.

The Port Authority, which operates Stewart, put out a news release just before the start of the Memorial Day holiday weekend, saying it expected "more than 1.5 million passengers" to use its aviation facilities between Friday and Tuesday - a 1.4 percent increase from Memorial Day weekend 2012.

Police said Nugent was stabbed inside a vehicle on May 17, and the killer drove off.

Slavery. There is no other word for sex trafficking, no other concept that encapsulates the utter control a pimp has over the trafficking victims or the brutal, dehumanizing conditions they're subjected to.