Pearl River News

PEARL RIVER - Experts in autism from all over the nation will be in Rockland to speak at a conference Monday that hundreds of parents, teachers and others plan to attend.

A Comfort Inn is expected to open next month in Travis and new mattresses are piled up inside an adjacent building where a Holiday Inn Express should debut in the new year, according to developer Sam Chang.

Republicans swept the Orangetown races, according to unofficial results Tuesday night from the Rockland County Board of Elections.

State police today announced several additional drunken-driving arrests troopers made over the weekend.

ORANGETOWN - State investigators have tracked down a Pearl River man they say killed a Siberian husky with an arrow while hunting illegally in Blauvelt State Park.

A top-performing female trader has sued RBC Capital Markets for gender bias over her dismissal, which she said stemmed from her dating a hedge fund manager later charged with fraud for running a Ponzi scheme.

Edgemont 3, Briarcliff 0: At Briarcliff, Kasey Heyda had six kills and five digs to lead the Panthers to the 25-21, 25-22, 25-21 win.

Re Suffern Village Trustee John Meehan's Oct. 22 letter, 'Still supporting Keegan in Suffern': I find it interesting that he is supporting current Suffern Mayor John Keegan in a race in which Keegan has stated he was not actively campaigning after his Democratic primary loss to Trustee Dagan LaCorte.

An Oct. 1 article, 'Best-seller stokes interest in Masons,' addressed how Dan Brown's new novel, 'The Lost Symbol,' is renewing interest and generating curiosity about the age-old fraternal group, the Freemasons.

PEARL RIVER - Pearl River 13-year-old Annie Loftus' favorite songs to sing are a medley of Abba's tunes.

Too many landlords across Rockland illegally construct extra apartments inside rental buildings that are often unsafe for tenants and emergency responders.

The widow of a New York man killed on the New Jersey Turnpike has settled a lawsuit for $9.75 million.

PEARL RIVER - Joyce Simons, a college professor and administrator who has earned a doctorate and other advanced academic degrees, was puzzled more than two years ago when she suddenly began having trouble spelling simple words.

PEARL RIVER - Orange and Rockland Utilities' customers will pay more for natural gas delivery after the state Public Service Commission approved a rate hike Thursday.

During the city's recent construction boom, developers could not build fast enough to meet the demand for luxury housing and hotels, contractors had more work than they could handle and many union workers made a lot of money.

NEW CITY - The Tappan Zee Bridge has been impacting life in Rockland since it opened in 1955.

Pearl River High School is moving the prom to a school night. Students are expected to be in class the next day, bright-eyed and bushy-tailed as usual.

NANUET - Normandie Gateau was getting ready to go meet her boyfriend Monday when she looked out of her second-floor window and saw flames shooting out of the roof of the apartment building across the parking lot.

Ursuline 3, New Rochelle 1: At Ursuline, Nellie Boss had 14 kills and 11 digs in a 13-25, 25-13, 25-16, 2-22 win.

The hypothesis that cancer is driven by tumour-initiating cells has recently attracted a great deal of attention, owing to the promise of a novel cellular target for the treatment of haematopoietic and solid malignancies.