Crime
By Andrew Wyrich on Thursday, Jun. 21, 2012 - 1:53 pm
The death of a 2-year-old girl on Wednesday is being investigated by New York police as a homicide, according to several news reports.
The New Paltz Police Department told The Daily Freeman that an autopsy by Dr. Michael Sikirica determined that the... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Friday, Jun. 8, 2012 - 11:15 am
Catskills Photography took a sweet shot of this 1998 Corvette, now living a second life as the Sullivan County Sheriff's Office's DARE car.
There's a story behind Sullivan County's hot rod: The car used to belong to a crack cocaine dealer who parked it... Read more
By Andrew Wyrich on Tuesday, May. 29, 2012 - 11:45 am
A week-long Department of Environmental Conservation investigation led to the raid of a West Coxsackie Chinese restaurant that allegedly poached fish from the Hudson River and Coxsackie Reservoir.
DEC police said Dragon Garden, located on Route 9W in... Read more
By Andrew Wyrich on Friday, May. 25, 2012 - 12:45 pm
New York State Police in Kingston announced the arrest of 22-year-old Sean Fischer on Thursday. Fischer's is the second arrest made in connection with a burglary at a Stewart’s Shop in Hurley on April 28.
Police say that Fischer, who was an employee of... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Thursday, May. 24, 2012 - 11:40 pm
Above: A severed water pipe in the basement of a house owned by Middleburgh mayor Matthew Avitabile. Photo by Matthew Avitabile.
In this week's Times Journal: A house owned by Middleburgh's new mayor has been broken into, in an incident that looks like a... Read more
By Andrew Wyrich on Tuesday, May. 22, 2012 - 11:21 am
Photo by Flickr user warrantedarrest; published under Creative Commons license.
State police seized “several ounces” of marijuana on Saturday after responding to a custody issue on Sagendort Corners Road in Howes Cave, and sent a growing operation’s... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Monday, May. 21, 2012 - 9:23 am
Photo: Marcellinno Ruiz. From NYSP.
A Wallkill man, 60-year-old Keith Marroon, was killed on Bates Lane in Shawangunk on Sunday when a pick-up truck towing a utility trailer struck the bicycle he was riding.
The driver of the truck, 67-year-old Wallkill... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Monday, May. 14, 2012 - 12:33 pm
A 21-year-old Kingston man has been arrested on charges that he tried to burgle a dozen roses from a Hannaford grocery store on Mother's Day by stuffing them into his pants.
Kingston police posted news of the arrest on their Facebook page:
Arrest: Sunday... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Thursday, May. 10, 2012 - 10:49 pm
The Ulster County Sheriff's Office has finally made an arrest for the theft of a lawnmower and an ATV from a home at 109 South Road in Ruby last June. The cold case got a fresh lead this Monday, when the lawnmower turned up for sale on Craig's List.... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Monday, May. 7, 2012 - 11:29 am
Last week saw a couple of catastrophic ATV accidents in the Catskills.
On Thursday, May 3, two local residents were fatally injured while riding an ATV in Andes: 32-year-old John W. Morris and 45-year-old Julie M. Manon. The Daily Star reports:
Manon died... Read more
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