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By Julia Reischel on Tuesday, Jul. 6, 2010 - 10:23 am
... Jamal Colon, from Monticello. He sustained a bullet wound during his Independence Day celebration, and to hear the Times Herald-Record tell is, his methods were almost guaranteed to endanger life and limb:
Jamal Colon, 31, told police he placed a box... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Monday, Jul. 5, 2010 - 10:09 pm
Looks like the entire state of New York -- and most of the Eastern seaboard -- is going to be extra-smoggy tomorrow. Check out AIRNow's map of current air-quality alerts in the U.S.
If you have asthma or lung disease, please take it easy out there... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Monday, Jul. 5, 2010 - 3:54 pm
Adam Bosch at the Times Herald-Record busted out a calculator and figured out exactly how much money New York City loses each day because of the acqueduct leak in Wawarsing. The answer? It ain't cheap:
In 2010, New York City charged its residents $2.61... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Monday, Jul. 5, 2010 - 3:24 pm
Another week, another fire. This time, a pizzeria in Woodridge burned to the ground in a very smoky blaze yesterday, injuring five firefighters in the process, according to the Times Herald-Record.
Woodridge Pizza & Cafe was apparently a beloved... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Monday, Jul. 5, 2010 - 10:52 am
With the last Kutsher on the verge of retirement, the resort that inspired "Dirty Dancing" was poised to follow its Borscht Belt brethren into a long twilight of decrepitude. But in a lucky break for the 103-year-old hotel, caterer Mickey Montal and... Read more
By Joe Harris on Saturday, Jul. 3, 2010 - 8:48 am
Every great new invention has got a frumpy sister who is increasingly losing her youthfulness, her appeal, and her hair. Easily one of the greatest innovations of the last century is texting, which has revolutionized the way all people are heard and... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Friday, Jul. 2, 2010 - 3:08 pm
A bill instituting no-fault divorce in New York State, which cleared the state Senate last month, passed the Assembly yesterday with wide margins. When Gov. Paterson signs it -- which he's promised to do -- New York will join the 49 other states that... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Friday, Jul. 2, 2010 - 2:16 pm
Kingston residents are furious today over a shooting around 8pm yesterday evening on Clinton Avenue, whose perpetrator is still unknown and at-large.* From the Daily Freeman:
Neighbors said they heard four shots and then saw a man lying in front of 84... Read more
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