New City News

The county Legislature may soon consider limiting the amount of tax dollars it uses on public art displays after an outcry by residents who criticized the spending.

United Hospice of Rockland may be at the end of its five-year quest to build a hospice home where terminally ill patients can be cared for in their last days.

NEW CITY A Highland Mills man has been arrested and arraigned for allegedly stealing thousands of dollars from his nephew's lawsuit settlement money, set aside in several trusts following the death of the victim's mother.

A 58-year-old Monsey man has been charged with stealing $156,000 from welfare programs.

As president of the Asian Women's Association for Kinship and Equality, Raman Kaul provides support to Asian immigrant women who face domestic violence and abuse.

NEW CITY - On an Election Day that saw many incumbents get tossed from office amid a sputtering economy, voters re-elected County Executive C. Scott Vanderhoef by a comfortable margin.

Preparing to clear the roads of snow begins long before the first flake falls. Equipment repairs started in the summer.

A Rockland judge today sentenced a county businessman to state prison and ordered him to pay $226,000 for stealing ownership of a house he had co-owned with his live-in girlfriend.

NEW CITY A Huntington man, whose company, Vanessa Construction, Inc., was hired to strip and redevelop an existing building at the Helen Hayes Hospital in West Haverstraw, has been charged with defrauding employees out of $91,000 in unpaid wages and benefits.

A 36-year-old Spring Valley man has pleaded guilty to attempted murder after admitting he shot an armed man during a fight in June.

Disgraced financier Bernard Madoff's longtime auditor pleaded guilty Tuesday to securities fraud and other charges that could leave him behind bars for years.

Karl Schenkel says driving Main Street in West Haverstraw has been "absolutely horrendous" for the past three weeks.

NEW CITY - Central Highway between South Mountain Road in New City and Route 202 in Garnerville is shut down following a fiery two-car crash.

NYACK - With their Viking helmets and faux fur-draped torsos, the contingent from the River Rowing Association cut a striking image with the gray, tossing Hudson in the background.

NEW CITY - For Edward Branca, Elliot Markowitz has helped change his life. Markowitz, a social worker who was born and raised in Rockland, works with people with psychiatric illnesses at his 2/3-bed L'Dor Adult Home on West Clarkstown Road.

CLARKSTOWN: A manhunt came to a peaceful end after Clarkstown police took a man accused of menacing his girlfriend into custody Friday night.

The Valley Cottage mother brutally attacked Sept. 18 in a New Jersey hotel parking lot remains hospitalized as detectives continue to investigate.

New City Library welcomes author Alex Sanchez, who writes for teen readers, at 7 p.m. Sanchez's works include "Rainbow Boys," "Getting It," "So Hard to Say" and his newest title, "Bait." Signed books will be available for purchase.

WEST NYACK - Erica Forkin of Demarest Avenue doesn't think her street is in terrible shape.

RAMAPO - For years, Evan Wechman was afraid that if he left his house, it would blow up or that if he drove his car, he would run someone over.