Valley Cottage News

VALLEY COTTAGE - A Westchester woman was charged with drunken driving early Friday after another motorist reported seeing a car swerving on the Tappan Zee bridge and hitting guide rails on both sides of the roadway, police said.

An 18-year-old Valley Cottage man has been arrested in connection with a rash of car larcenies in town.

NEW CITY - William Warren had read articles and watched news programs about the war in Afghanistan but never felt its impact in any meaningful way.

A Valley Cottage, N.Y., man allegedly told police he had committed more than 20 car burglaries on Christmas Eve and Christmas Day, including one in Ridgewood.

A dozen months, five dozen high-school musicals and scores and scores of rehearsals and conversations made up 2009.

Authorities today arrested the husband of a Valley Cottage woman who was repeatedly stabbed and then run over by a vehicle in a hotel parking lot in Mahwah, N.J. Allan Pelcak Jr., 41, of New Hempstead, who had been a prime suspect in the case, was arrested in the attack on his ex-wife, Laura Matousek, in late September at the Sheraton Crossroads.

Watch an Editorial Spotlight interview with experts on law enforcement and domestic violence-prevention, who discuss some of the personal safety issues arising from the slaying of Jami Erlich, the R.P. Connor Elementary School teacher killed Nov.

NEW CITY - Rockland County Executive C. Scott Vanderhoef will see a $17,322 raise in 2010 after an 12-5 vote Tuesday by the county Legislature to retroactively increase his pay.

When their work is done for the day, the 66 buses that make up the TOR and Tappan ZEExpress fleet are driven to northern New Jersey, where they're serviced, cleaned and tucked away until their next shift.

It remains painfully confusing and sad how Jami Erlich's short life could end so brutally.

Filed at 04:06 PM A grand jury today indicted a 32-year-old man in the murder of Ithaca College alumna Jami Erlich, a 99.

Police found underwear belonging to murdered Rockland County teacher Jami Erlich in the apartment of the next-door neighbor accused of killing her, according to authorities.

NEW CITY - Eric Lau fractured his next door neighbor's skull and slit her throat inside the gym teacher's Valley Cottage condominium, a prosecutor told the judge during a bench conference Thursday.

Share + Dec 10, 2009 5:17 pm US/Eastern Reporting Tony Aiello NEW CITY, N.Y. 1 of 4 Eric Lau appears in court for his arraignment in the murder of Rockland County elementary school teacher Jami Erlich on Dec.

A Rockland County prosecutor told a judge and defense lawyer today that Eric Lau beat next-door neighbor Jami Erlich and then slit her throat almost to the point of decapitation in her Valley Cottage apartment.

Share + Dec 8, 2009 5:45 pm US/Eastern Reporting Tony Aiello NEW CITY, N.Y. 1 of 4 Jami Erlich, 32, was found murdered inside her apartment on November 29, 2009.

NEW CITY - As Eric Lau remained behind bars Friday, a Rockland grand jury began reviewing evidence accusing him of murdering a popular Suffern elementary school gym teacher.

Share + Nov 30, 2009 5:40 pm US/Eastern Reporting John Slattery 1 of 1 32-year-old Jami Erlich was found dead in her home in Valley Cottage around 9:15 p.m. Police are treating her death as a homicide.

Millions of women are stalked or harassed every year. But a large number of them do not report it to authorities.

A popular Ramapo elementary school gym teacher was beaten and stabbed to death inside her Lake Road condominium on Sunday night, as Clarkstown police searched today for a neighbor who may have heard or known about the murder.