Wallkill News

The state Department of Transportation will continue work Wednesday on the I-84 westbound ramp 4W in the Town of Wallkill.

A suspicious fire destroyed a vacant house off Webb Road on Thursday morning, and raised fears that a homeless man might have been inside the building.

A fire deemed suspicious by authorities consumed an abandoned house on Webb Road in the Town of Wallkill Thursday morning.

A controversial report that recommends most women delay mammograms until age 50 is drawing heat from local doctors - and a breast cancer survivor.

Plan on braving the crowds and hunting for Black Friday bargains at the Walmart on Route 211? You'll be doing so under the watchful eyes of town police officers.

On the Record features birth announcements on Page 2B on Mondays and announcements about local residents in college and the armed services on Page 3B throughout the week.

The Warm & Cozy Committee is holding a donation drive to provide warm outer clothing and a full Thanksgiving meal to more than 100 families in the City of Middletown.

The Orange County Sheriff's Office Wednesday arrested a woman they say held up a Chinese restaurant on Route 211 last Monday night.

A jury continued deliberations Tuesday in the case against a man charged with attacking former Middletown mayor - now mayor-elect - Joe DeStefano in April on a city street.

State police say an elderly woman was killed in a head-on crash in the Town of Wallkill in Ulster County.

An Orange County grand jury on Monday indicted Keith Marma, the man accused of stealing $18,000 at gunpoint last month from the Bank of America branch in Pine Island.

Emergency services are handling a serious car crash in the area of 100 Crystal Run Road in the Town of Wallkill.

Former Orange County Executive Louis Heimbach has been presented Pattern for Progress' Lifetime Achievement Award.

The sex offender still suspected in a Bay Ridge woman's 2008 disappearance, Michael Mele, was sentenced Thursday to one to three years in prison for failure to change an address, in violation of his probation as a sex offender.

Planning to attend the Yankees victory parade in Manhattan? With street closures, no parking and the usual congestion, driving in is a nonstarter.

TOWN OF WALLKILL Greater Hudson Bank, N.A. Wednesday reported its third quarter 2009 results, marking the bank's second consecutive quarter of profitable operations.

Virginia Thoby is one of a handful of early voters at Wallkill Town Hall. Georgeanne Witz is a poll monitor.

The Colonie Police Department arrested a woman for allegedly using several different aliases and lies to gain access to churches and commit grand larceny.

WALLKILL State Police have charged two Newburgh men with attacking the desk clerk at the Howard Johnsons Motel on Route 211 in the Town of Wallkill with an aluminum baseball bat.

Treasure Blue Chip, dam of 14 foals with collective earnings of $2.6 million, was euthanized Wednesday morning at the age of 34 at her birthplace and the only home she's known away from the racetrack, Blue Chip Farms, in Wallkill, New York.