Rockland County News

RAMAPO - Alyssa Axt leaped off her chair and hurled her tissue into the trash.

Cable television newsman Dominic Carter, an influential reporter on New York politics, was convicted Friday of an attempted assault on his wife.

A Spring Valley man is in the Rockland County jail facing charges that he punched and robbed a man in a restroom at Rockland Community College.

The county Legislature may soon consider limiting the amount of tax dollars it uses on public art displays after an outcry by residents who criticized the spending.

Cycling advocates are scrambling to prevent the state from expanding its use of rumble strips etched alongside roads to rouse dozing drivers - but the Department of Transportation says it has not yet formed any such policy.

State Supreme Court Justice Orazio Bellantoni, who was re-elected to a new 14-year term last week, has filed retirement papers with the state pension system.

SPARKILL - Students from 14 schools across Rockland County came together today to attend the annual Power of SADD Youth Convention.

New Square needs to stop dragging its heels on holding a public hearing on controversial plans to site a kosher chicken processing plant in town.

ALBANY-- Citing a report that nearly 131,000 veterans across the nation are living on the streets, Sen.

A former village resident was charged Tuesday with stealing more than $75,000 from a trust fund set up for his nephew after the boy's mother died during botched surgery when he was a toddler.

Experts in autism from all over the nation will be in Rockland to speak at a conference Monday that hundreds of parents, teachers and others plan to attend.

Preparing to clear the roads of snow begins long before the first flake falls. Equipment repairs started in the summer.

Rob Astorino, incoming Westchester County executive, was elected with a clear mandate to cut property taxes.

The Rockland County Legislature's Budget and Finance Committee meeting came and went last week without an affordable-housing group under the panel's investigation being added to the agenda.

ALBANY -- Change isn't always easy, and that came through this week in the comments of voters who marked paper ballots and scanned them into machines, rather than the old-fashioned way of pulling mechanical levers, election officials said.

A 26-year-old man accused of trying to set his house on fire was arrested Thursday after a search that included police dogs and the county helicopter.

A 36-year-old Spring Valley parolee who shot an armed man during a fight faces 10 years in prison when sentenced next month for attempted murder.

SPRING VALLEY -[0x0f] Noramie F. Jasmin won a three-way race for mayor of the village tonight, while Joseph Gross and Joseph A. Desmaret beat out a field of five challengers to win two spots on the Board of Trustees, according to unofficial returns.

Most Clarkstown incumbents running for re-election retained their seats tonight, according to unofficial results from the Rockland County Board of Elections.

Monday: Left lane Westchester-bound closed for maintenance beginning at milepost 16.2 to 13.1, between 9:30 a.m. and 3 p.m. Tuesday: Right Westchester-bound lane closed for maintenance beginning at milepost 15 to 13.1, between 9:30 a.m. and 3 p.m. Wednesday: Right Westchester-bound lane closed for maintenance beginning at milepost 15 to 13.1, ...