Poughkeepsie News

Police charged a 31-year-old Poughkeepsie resident with assault after he allegedly struck a Pine Plains Anderson Center for Autism resident with a leather belt.

The Poughkeepsie board of education has elected officers for the 2009-10 school year, district officials said.

A monthly poll that tracks public perception of the economy found, despite retailers' best efforts, New Yorkers were more pessimistic in June than in May.

" Good-paying jobs are hard to come by, and in New York, they are even harder to find right now.

Given the transient nature of sexual offenders, the ripple effects of cases that take place in New York City could easily find their way to a quiet neighborhood in the hamlet of Highland.

State Supreme Court Judge George D. Marlow, hailed by his colleagues as a knowledgeable and compassionate jurist and a pioneer in the field of judicial ethics, announced his retirement Monday.

Assemblyman Joel Miller, R-Poughkeepsie, will host an informational seminar regarding sex offenders in the community from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. Wednesday at Haviland Middle School, 23 Haviland Road, Hyde Park.

The Hudson River Arts Festival, a fixture on the City of Poughkeepsie waterfront for more than a decade, will not be held this year.

A 46-year-old homeless man who allegedly failed to register as a sex offender has been arrested on a warrant, the Town of Poughkeepsie Police said.

The Poughkeepsie Farm Project has a supply of garden seeds available for groups, schools and individuals.

A Westchester County developer's plans to construct hundreds of homes off Route 9 in the town of Poughkeepsie remain mired in litigation.

Two men and a woman, all from Dutchess County, were charged in connection with the alleged sexual abuse of two young boys.

PLEASANT VALLEY - A reported drive-by shooting on Salt Point Turnpike Sunday afternoon was unfounded, according to state police.

Police are investigating an armed robbery at the Panera Bread store on South Road in Poughkeepsie.

As a cameraman, Robert Hobson has filmed the golden question being asked a million times.

Students at five of Poughkeepsie's six elementary schools will have new principals when classes resume in September.

Town of Poughkeepsie police are investigating an incident that occurred at the Campus Deli, at 11 Marist St., earlier today, Sgt.

The owner and an employee of a barbershop where a City of Poughkeepsie man was gunned down last winter both identified murder defendant Kasib Shamsiddeen as the man who fired the shot, a city detective testified Wednesday.

Harlem Valley Wetland & Ecological Services, a new ecological consulting firm, has opened for business in the Harlem Valley.

Residents of a City of Poughkeepsie housing complex for seniors and the disabled were evacuated this morning after a fire broke out in a sixth-floor apartment, officials said.