Kingston News

Calling all potential carhops, cooks and expediters. Jobs are available at the brand new Sonic restaurant that will open this month at the intersection of Upper Front Street and Smith Hill Road.

Despite serious budget constraints, the City of Kingston's Independence Day celebration proved to be a huge success as the festivities kept families flooding the waterfront until late Sunday evening.

Members of the Ulster County Chamber of Commmerce took to the Hudson River, aboard the Rip Van Winkle, for the chamber's June mixer, sponsored by River Radiology of Kingston.

The Ulster Regional Gang Enforcement Narcotics Team arrested a Kingston woman Thursday on drug charges.

WEST HURLEY - The owner of a firearms supply company is recovering after he accidentally shot himself in the leg at his Hudson Valley firing range.

The owner of Numrich Arms Factory in West Hurley sustained an injury to his leg when he accidentally shot himself, State Police at Kingston said Wednesday.

Bank names senior vice president - Ulster Savings Bank recently announced the promotion of James Hochstatter of Rhinebeck to senior vice president/information technology.

Van Kleeck, the daughter of a minister, received her bachelor's degree from Smith College in 1904 and joined the College Settlements Association, where she began her career as a social researcher by studying New York City's female factory workers and child labourers.

A line of severe thunderstorms capable of producing nickel size hail and damaging winds in excess of 60 mph are headed east through Ulster County, according to the National Weather Service.

A man who allegedly showed up armed for a gunfight on Lucas Avenue last summer was sentenced to 11 years in prison, after pleading guilty to second-degree criminal possession of a weapon.

KINGSTON - A woman who allegedly threatened suicide was taken to Benedictine Hospital for a psychological evaluation earlier today after she was found intoxicated at the Kingston-Rhinecliff Bridge, according to state police.

A New York couple cheated death twice in 24 hours, first when their canoe upended in surging rapids and then when a tree crushed their windshield as they drove.

Dorothy C. Vikre, of New Bedford, died Saturday, June 20, 2009, at Sacred Heart Home after a courageous battle with cancer.

A Father's Day outing on a rain-swollen Hudson Valley creek nearly ended in tragedy for a family that had to be rescued by emergency crews.

MILAN - Two teenagers are recovering from a fiery pickup truck crash after a father and son braved the flames to pull them from the burning wreckage - just minutes before the truck exploded.

SAUGERTIES - A 24-year-old Saugerties woman has been charged with criminally negligent homicide and third-degree rape following a year-long investigation into the overdose death of a 15-year-old boy, authorities said today.

Robert Bickelman is going back to state prison for sticking up another bank. The 50-year-old transient, who's lived in Orange and Westchester counties and on Long Island, pleaded guilty Thursday in Ulster County Court to second-degree robbery, admitting he held up a Key Bank branch in Kingston on March 27.

A judge in Ulster County has been publicly reprimanded for failing to render decisions in a timely manner.

Troopers are investigating early Wednesday morning shootings in just outside Ulster County and have a suspect in custody.

PALENVILLE, N.Y. - State police say a suspect in a shooting in the Catskill Mountains is in custody after a chase that ended with the suspect's vehicle crashing into a stone wall.