Newburgh News

A New York man was held in the police lockup awaiting arraignment Friday on $500,000 bond after he allegedly "violently" struggled with a police officer trying to arrest him on charges of stealing a motor vehicle Thursday morning, police said.

The City Council will meet Saturday at 3 p.m. to make another run at lowering a tax increase while still bringing in enough money to run the city.

The agonizing budget process currently working its way through the Kingston Common Council was not created in a vacuum.

Newburgh man sentenced to 25 years in prison for killing Milton woman KINGSTON - The 67-year-old man who shot and killed his girlfriend in her Milton home on October 28, 2008 is likely going to spend the rest of his life in prison for shooting his girlfriend to death.

Weeks before a judge unsealed indictments accusing 44 local people of participating in an international drug scheme, a grand juror who heard secret testimony in the case tipped off one of the targets, according to two sources with direct knowledge of the case.

NEWBURGH The Newburgh Town police officer who struck two school buses while driving a police car on North Plank Road last Thursday, November 12, may have been involved in another motor vehicle incident just before that one.

A man jumped off the pier into the Hudson River in the City of Newburgh Thursday morning and his body was recovered by a Newburgh City Police SCUBA diver from 20 feet of water a short time later.

A Newburgh high school student faces a felony charge in the robbery of three classmates.

High school students are looking for donations to send to troops overseas. Operation Newburgh Cares launches on Saturday from the North Cafeteria of Newburgh Free Academy, 201 Fullerton Ave.

St. Luke's Cornwall Hospital named Cornwall-based family practitioner Gurinder Mehar its 2009 Physician Leader of the Year.

NEWBURGH - Volunteers from the Town of Newburgh Friends of Seniors will be honored at a holiday gathering at 2 p.m. Nov.

The state's Board of Regents issued a wide-ranging plan Monday to strengthen training of teachers and induce them to teach in high-needs schools.

Richard Stantial of Cornwall surrendered to authorities Monday, giving prosecutors the 42nd of the 44 people named in three indictments that describe an international drug conspiracy based in the Town of Newburgh.

The Newburgh Chamber Music Series offered a different kind of program Sunday afternoon at St.

City detectives were in the right place at the right time to arrest a man popping off shots in downtown Newburgh, according to police.

The law had its eye on at least two of the accused players in a Newburgh-based international drug network four years before Thursday's mass arrests, according to court documents and people familiar with two local drug investigations.

The city of Newburgh finds itself ducking and dodging, trying to survive. Again. City leaders are trying to figure out how to balance a budget for 2010 without brutal tax hikes or massive layoffs.

Students at Gardnertown Fundamental Magnet School in Newburgh recently celebrated Family Math Fun and Pizza Night sponsored by GAPS, the school's parent group.

City Council members will decide Monday whether Newburgh can borrow its way toward financial stability.

The Greater Newburgh YMCA's Y-Scoop After School Childcare Program at Leptondale Elementary School recently collected dog and cat food, cleaning supplies and toys for the Town of Newburgh Animal Shelter and Walden Humane Society.