Central Valley News

Bernard Madoff has been sentenced to the maximum 150 years in prison for his multibillion-dollar fraud scheme.

Good news for the Central Valley Braves 12-year-old little league team. They won the championship of the Cooperstown Village All-Star World Series in New York tonight, beating Long Beach, 9-7. They are not finished, and will play in another World Series later this month in San Diego.

Elected officials and citizens voiced support for a lawsuit challenging Kiryas Joel's proposed water pipeline Monday night at a hearing held by the Orange County Legislature.

Town police arrested a man Monday who is suspected in at least nine burglaries, a home invasion and a drive-by pellet-gun shooting.

Town of Wallkill - A 67-year-old woman died after the car she was driving was struck by another vehicle on Scotchtown Avenue on Saturday, police said.

State troopers say two women were arrested on Wednesday night on Route 17 in the town of Thompson after they were pulled over for several traffic violations and officers found drugs, a switchblade knife and a billy club in their car.

Three teenager boys were charged on Wednesday with felony burglary and larceny. Arthur Hoffman and the 15-year-old were charged in two burglaries and the 18-year-old was charged in four burglaries and also faces a misdemeanor charge of petit larceny.

Police have charged two more men with felonies in an May 28 assault where several people threatened another man with a baseball bat, knives and possibly a firearm.

One person has died in a collision on the Thruway that has shut down a northbound stretch of the highway in the Hudson Valley.

Police say they have a arrested a White Sulphur Springs man in the Oct. 19 robbery at the Cigarette Outlet on State Route 52.

Despite the power struggle that has gridlocked New York's Senate for the past two weeks, the Assembly has quietly passed hundreds of bills while heading toward the exit.

New York's senators, caught in a power struggle that gridlocked the chamber for two weeks, are discussing a temporary power sharing arrangement.

An Orange County grand jury on Monday indicted a Dutchess County man who's accused of stabbing his wife and daughter last week, fleeing to New Windsor and crashing his car, then menacing a cop with an ice pick.

A 15-year-old Warwick girl died Friday night when the ATV she was driving crashed into a telephone pole, police said.

"Come and listen to my song" was the opening line sung by Tao Rodriguez-Seeger in "A Folk Concert" with the Allegro Youth Orchestra Thursday night at Monroe-Woodbury High School.

A Phillipsport man was charged Sunday with felony grand larceny in the theft of $1,600 worth of jewelry.

City police cordoned off a section of Prospect Avenue near the Horton Hospital Campus Tuesday afternoon as they investigated a report of a man brandishing a gun.

Firefighters doused a fire Tuesday afternoon at a New Windsor factory. The fire began about 3 p.m. in the American Felt and Filter complex, 361 Walsh Avenue.

An 80-year-old farmer died on Sunday a few hours after a tractor ran over him while he was working on his black dirt farm on Madura Lane in Goshen.

TEAM: Sprague High School. YEAR: Junior. DISTRICT PLACING: Fifth in Central Valley Conference with a 166.