Wallkill News

Law enforcement officers coordinated early morning raids Thursday on suspected gang members in Middletown.

In Gov. Andrew Cuomo's recent budget message, he asked a question that many in the business-attraction arena and government sectors in New York state have been struggling to answer since the recession began five years ago: At least a part of the governor's answer to that question is to invest heavily in infrastructure to create jobs in the ... (more)

The armed man who was shot to death by a court officer after he stormed into Middletown City Court this morning has been identified as Tim Mulqueen, a former Middletown landlord with a grudge against Mayor Joe DeStefano.

A Wallkill man was charged with stealing 167 oxycodone pills belonging to his hospitalized grandmother on Friday, the Ulster County Sheriff's Office said.

A Orange County woman was airlifted to Westchester Medical Center after an accident at the intersection of Bloomingburg and M and M roads Wednesday morning, according to police.

Court papers filed by prosecutors painted Michael Mele as a lurid sex offender. Mele pled guilty on Jan.

Ralph Falkena, of Walden, does some business with employee Jane Zalsky, of Kingston, on Monday at a branch of the Eastern New York Federal Credit Union.

Three Orange County residents are among Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand's 2012 nominees to the nation's service academies.

Wallkill wants to know if anyone wants its wood. Currently, when the town cuts down trees or moves fallen trees off a road, they pile the wood at the town highway garage.

Doris Scholtz arranges a vase of cut flowers at her shop, the Chester Greenery and Gifts in Chester.

Orange County expects to spend $1 million planning and acquiring land for the next three stages of the Heritage Trail, a popular recreational path that now runs from Goshen to Monroe.

Court evidence shows how convicted killer Michael Mele was sinking into a chilling sexual perversion -- taking dozens of lewd photos of random women and engaging in deviant behavior -- in the years leading up to his murder of aspiring New York dancer Laura Garza.

The former state police superintendent accused of helping former Gov. Elliot Spitzer's office create a campaign to discredit former Senate Majority Leader Joe Bruno is being eyed as the next Monticello police chief.

James Calabrese serves a customer Friday. He and his niece recently took over Vellakes Quality Meat & Deli in the Town of Wallkill.

UPDATE: Michael Mele has taken a deal and is pleading guilty to manslaughter. The 26 year old Wallkill man faces a 23 year sentence.

The Town of Wallkill will soon start requiring developers to pay the town's attorney fees to review projects that are before the Planning and Zoning boards.

A hamlet of Wallkill man pleaded guilty Friday to having sex with a child under 13.

Atiq Weston, 19, had been indicted in the April 30, 2008, stabbing death of Robert Kwiatkowski.

Realtor R.J. Smith has been appointed to represent the towns of Wallkill and Crawford in the Orange County Legislature for the rest of the year.

Police have identified the woman killed in a head-on collision Wednesday on Route 32 in Plattekill as Jean Schuyler, 70, of the hamlet of Wallkill.