Highland Falls News

U.S. soldiers patrol through the heart of Kabul, Afghanistan on Wednesday. WEST POINT , N.Y. - The instructors and cadets at the U.S. Military Academy have been handed new marching orders to win the fight in Afghanistan - and they're confident they can accomplish the mission.

Police say they nabbed a Highland Falls man in the middle of a drugstore burglary, while his wife waited in the car with their 5-year-old. Police said Scott Tietz, 42, kicked in the front door to get inside the Central Valley Pharmacy at the Oak Clove Plaza.

HIGHLAND FALLS Some 200 people gathered in Veteran's Park in Highland Falls Tuesday evening to protest President Barack Obama's sending of 30, 000 more troops into Afghanistan.

An industrial-strength drain cleaner disposed of in residential trash apparently sparked a fire in a Town of Highlands garbage truck just before noon Wednesday.

WEST POINT - More than 250 people held a candlelight vigil outside the U.S. Military Academy on Tuesday night to protest President Barack Obama's decision to escalate the 8-year-old war in Afghanistan.

President Obama's decision to send 30,000 more troops to Afghanistan drew a mixed reaction Tuesday from residents in this town next to the U.S. Military Academy at West Point.

WEST POINT - Peace activists plan to hold a candlelight vigil outside the U.S. Military Academy on Tuesday shortly before President Barack Obama is expected to announce that he will send more troops to Afghanistan.

President Barack Obama will address the nation on his new strategy for the war in Afghanistan Tuesday night from the U.S. Military Academy at West Point.

HIGHLAND FALLS - Randy Jurgensen seemed exceedingly uncomfortable, constantly clearing his throat today as he tried to muster up some response to all those who had gathered to honor him with a Purple Heart - &#8201more than a half century after shrapnel pierced his helmet on Pork Chop Hill in one of the deadliest battles of the Korean War.

Reporters are coming in of a structure fire on Ondaora Parkway. Mutual aid from neighboring fire departments is being requested.

A 51-year-old woman who worked in the dean's office at the United States Military Academy at West Point admits defrauding the government out of nearly $3 million.

West Point Military Academy is located at 415 Main Street in Highland Falls, NY.

Recent visitors to the Vernon Drug Store in Museum Village in Monroe were intrigued as they browsed the glass cases full of old medicinal bottles and surgical instruments or gazed upward at the huge wooden ceiling fans attached to pulleys and once operated by hydro power.

Col. Bill McArthur looked out at the auditorium full of kids at Highland Falls Middle School.

The local leader of the NAACP says the City of Newburgh has a problem with racial discrimination and has done little to deal with it.

WEST POINT - Nearly 200 people gathered before the rock honoring the legendary Buffalo Soldiers, dedicating a wreath and a remembrance for the black service men who served in this nation's earliest wars in segregated units.

The Buffalo Soldiers Association of West Point will hold its 48th annual ceremony to honor the legendary black soldiers tomorrow at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point.

A motorcyclist on Route 218 who fell 200 feet from a ledge after hitting a wall is being treated for injuries by emergency workers, police officials say.

Fed up with the state's cold shoulder, officials with the Highland Falls-Fort Montgomery School District are considering bankrupting their schools and giving the governor the keys.

Despite efforts aimed at countywide consistency, a late Labor Day has caused opening-day confusion in mid-Hudson schools.