Orange County News Archives

Josh Duggan, the kidnapper-rapist who tormented two young Goshen girls in 1991, will remain in state prison for at least two more years.

Town police on Wednesday charged a man with abducting and raping a 14-year-old girl.

The Westtown homeowner who shot a bear outside his home earlier this month has been cited by state Department of Environmental Conservation police.

Former Chairman of the Health and Mental Health Committee; current member of Green Buildings Committee, Rules and Government Enactments Committee, Physical services Committee, and the Emergency Services Committee.

A federal judge refused to dismiss an Orange County sheriff's deputy's lawsuit against Sheriff Carl DuBois, ruling the deputy raised a legitimate issue about why he was passed over for promotions.

Authorities say four dead pit bulls found in an upstate New York trash bin earlier this month died of injuries consistent with dogfighting.

The Middletown chapter of the NAACP is holding a forum to meet the candidates for the Orange County Legislature at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday at the Paramount Theater, 17 South St., Middletown.

The recession is now a year old and our region's economy has been hit hard by it, as unemployment rates have risen steadily since last fall.

Town police arrested a Spring Valley man after he allegedly brandished a rifle in a Greenwood Lake restaurant.

Officials at the New York State Museum say a mastodon tusk found in the Hudson Valley by canoeists may be the largest ever found in New York.

Orange County Chamber of Commerce holds its annual Meeting and Awards Reception from 5:30 - 8 p.m. at Kuhl's Highland House, Middletown.

October 21, 2009, 2:56 PM / A 15-year-old New York boy is accused of stockpiling gasoline, propane, fuses and a machete for a planned school attack on the anniversary of the Columbine school massacre.

Robert and Constance McDonald don't exactly rake it in as Orange County election inspectors, a job that requires them to spend about 14 hours helping voters inside a polling station at SUNY Orange at every election.

WASHINGTON - A New York-based school bus manufacturer has agreed to recall nearly 6,000 small school buses after the government alleged the company tried to shift responsibility for the recalls by changing its name.

A Friday sweep of probationers in Mountain Lodge Park resulted in the arrest of three people, as well as the seizure of drugs, firearms and fireworks.

A watchdog office presented as a potential model for Orange County claims to have saved Maryland taxpayers millions of dollars by ferreting out waste, fraud and abuse in Montgomery County government.

Orange County is inviting the public to try its new electronic voting machines this weekend to help train the election inspectors who will monitor the machines' debut in the towns of Hamptonburgh and Greenville on Nov.

With two of her four children attending school and running a small business with her husband, Frances E. of Orange County, NY said the timing couldn't have been worse when she was diagnosed with breast cancer.

A 24-year-old Newburgh man is in the Orange County Jail on bail charged with breaking into a Newburgh woman's home last month, sexually assaulting and robbing her.

The Orange County Citizens Foundation will sponsor a hike of Storm King Mountain followed by a picnic at the Hudson Highlands Nature Museum in Cornwall on Sunday.

Bravo's "Real Housewives" franchise will begin airing in off-net syndication next fall thanks to a deal struck by its parent company NBC Universal Domestic Television Distribution.

GOSHEN Orange County is planning a symposium and exposition on Autism to be held on Saturday, November 14, at the Orange-Ulster BOCES Special Education Building at the school campus on Gibson Road in Goshen.

One race to watch in the coming battle for control of the Orange County Legislature is in the Warwick-Greenwood Lake area, where two challengers are looking to knock 16-year incumbent Ben Winstanley from his seat.

Stephen Brescia, incumbent Mary Ellen Matise Political Experience: Deputy Mayor, Village of Walden, 2005 - 2009 Work: Retired, Active Community Volunteer Village and Town Organizations Education: BS Art Education SUNY New Paltz, MFA Photography SUNY New Paltz, Pace Land Use Law Institute Training, Orange County Planning Federation Training Family: ...

VILLAGE OF FLORIDA A Sugar Loaf man, who is a teacher at S.S. Seward Institute, the high school in the Village of Florida, has been charged with criminal sexual act in the third degree, a felony.

It was a discovery that even startled the discoverer. Over the summer, field biologist Jay Westerveld was paddling along the east shore of Glenmere Lake, conducting plant surveys of submerged vegetation, when he noticed something odd.

There's a new chairwoman on board at the Orange County Chamber of Commerce, and she's looking for innovative ways to do business in the new economic climate.

CORNWALL Former Commanding General of Multi-National forces in Iraq, and native of Cornwall, General David Petraeus visited his old stomping grounds Thursday afternoon by receiving honors at his old high school, delivering words of encouragement to local Boy Scouts and touring the Orange County Choppers Headquarters.

Town Police in Crawford are investigating the circumstances leading to the discovery of four pit bulls found dead in a dumpster.

ALBANY - Federal prosecutors and attorneys for former Senate Republican Leader Joseph Bruno have filed lists of prominent politicians, lobbyists, aides and businessmen who may be called as witnesses in his upcoming trial on federal corruption charges.

A Newburgh man faces arson charges following a Friday night fire, according to court records.

If we're lucky, we'll get new editions of "Real Housewives" year-round. Bravo on Tuesday ordered "The Real Housewives of D.C.," adding a fifth batch of ladies to its lineup.

A police pursuit of a shoplifting suspect Friday night ended when a Chester village police car crashed into the suspect's vehicle on I-84, authorities said.

A man in his 20s from Yonkers died Sunday after crashing his motorcycle on a scenic mountain road near Port Jervis in Orange County, police said.

CHESTER State Police have arrested a North Royalton, Ohio man for allegedly stealing some $8,500 from the Orange County Shields organization while he was treasurer.

Saying "as Orange County goes, so goes New York State", U.S. Senator Charles Schumer gave a rousing pep talk and endorsement to Democrat county executive candidate Patricia O'Dwyer. That was at an Orange County Democratic Women fundraiser, attended by about 100, in the Town of Newburgh.

GOSHEN The Orange County Jail has been awarded over $338,000 in the state Criminal Alien Assistance Program.

GOSHEN It was an all too familiar sight. A total of 450 t-shirts on a clothesline, strung on trees around the Orange County Government Center in Goshen.

GOSHEN Orange County Executive Edward Diana proposed a 2010 county budget, Thursday, that is 4.9 percent higher than the county's 2009, $674.5 million spending plan.