New City News

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.

A Rockland County legislator has blocked more than $100,000 in funding to a Haverstraw-based affordable housing organization for months, pending another review of the group's spending and real estate development programs.

NEW CITY - A jury Thursday convicted a Haverstraw man of attempted murder in the 2005 multiple stabbing of a 78-year-old man who was putting groceries in his car.

When Steven and Karen Lampert left New City eight months ago, their house on South Mountain Road was in foreclosure and they told friends they were broke.

NEW HEMPSTEAD - More than 100 people from all over Rockland attended a rally Saturday to show their opposition to plans by the village of New Square to build a chicken slaughterhouse on vacant land off Route 45.

A widening group of people furious about a plan to build a chicken slaughterhouse using tax dollars across the street from a residential neighborhood plans to hold a rally Saturday to express its opposition.

NEW CITY - As a busy contractor working in New York City, Westchester and New Jersey, Michael Hirsch knew his property taxes were high, but hadn't given much thought to what they paid for.

NEW CITY The Rockland County Department of Health, the Rockland County Office for the Aging, and several community agencies including Healthcare Medical Associates, Northern Services Group, Helen Hayes, Good Samaritan, and Nyack Hospitals have revised their seasonal flu vaccine clinic schedule due to the current limited supply of seasonal flu ...