Vernon News

The following information is in response to the many inquiries from those with horses eligible to the $500,000 Empire Breeders Classic 3-year-old colt and filly trots.

Diddy was reported to have been stopped by the Los Angeles police department at gunpoint according to TMZ reports on Wednesday, May 15.

A week after an equine herpes outbreak, racing has resumed at Vernon Downs. Three horses had tested positive for the virus, one of which had to be euthanized because of the intense neurological effects of the disease.

The teen who shot and killed his father in 2008 has a new court date, downstate.

The Oneida County Sheriff's Office has charged 40-year-old Lisa M. Winzalevitch, of the City of Oneida, with driving while intoxicated after they say she crashed into a guard rail in the Town of Vernon.

Fire equipment manufacturer Ahrens-Fox earned its reputation for innovation and premium quality by adhering to its founders' credo of "Nothing too good for the fire service, only the best will do." Considered by many collectors to be the "Cadillac" of fire apparatus, its vintage fire engines typically command premium prices at auction.

Phyllis Anderson of the Jamaica Reading Association reads to grade-three students at the Jamaica Reading Association and First Heritage Co-operative Credit Union Reading Week 'Read-Aloud' session at the Cockburn Gardens Primary and Junior High School on Tuesday.

The man accused in the fatal shooting March 30 at the Q Ball won't be facing Spotsylvania County prosecutors anytime soon.

J. Michael Kirkland, CPA, will be installed as the 2013-2014 President of the New York State Society of Certified Public Accountants Board of Directors at the organization's 117th Annual Election Meeting and Dinner May 16th at the New York Marriott Marquis at Times Square.

Fugitive murder suspect Chauncey Cartier Lampkin, a.k.a. Fresh, was apprehended by police in Mount Vernon, N.Y. early Monday, Spotsylvania County Sheriff Roger L. Harris announced.