Dutchess County News

A third party has been called in to resolve issues regarding the new union formed by a group of Dutchess County managerial and confidential employees, Personnel Commissioner Earl Bruno said.

Alex Martinez, the man accused of killing his wife, then attempting to sink her body in a Dutchess County reservoir earlier this year, has admitted his guilt in court today.

PEEKSKILL - A six-member jury this morning convicted a Dutchess County man of misdemeanor reckless endangerment in the death last year of his 85-year-old father, whom he had left in a hot car on a July day while he went to work as a bus driver.

A central New York man has admitted killing his wife and then dumping her body in a Hudson Valley reservoir 220 miles away.

A town of Clay man admitted his guilt in court today in the death of his wife earlier this year.

TOWN OF WAPPINGER - The Poughkeepsie-Dutchess County Transportation Council will host a public meeting at 7 p.m. Wednesday to gather input on existing transportation and land-use issues along County Road 93 .

PEEKSKILL - Jury selection began today in City Court in the case of a Dutchess County man charged with misdemeanor reckless endangerment in the July 2008 death of his father, whom he had left inside a sweltering car while he went to work.

Companies and nonprofits in Dutchess and Ulster counties employ a diverse spectrum of employees in terms of race, gender, disability, sexual orientation and ethnic culture.

Here is a little-known transportation option available to the disabled that could apply to many seniors: the Americans with Disabilities Act Complementary Paratransit service.

POUGHKEEPSIE Dutchess County government has paid the state Department of Environmental Conservation $25,000 in satisfaction of a consent decree for having a number of violations in its petroleum bulk storage facilities.

Students at a Dutchess County school say things weren't quite back to normal this week when they returned to class following a hostage crisis with a disturbed gunman.

Once again, the issue of college students voting in local elections has created controversy in Dutchess County.

Manpower and equipment are being summoned from eastern Orange County and Ulster County fire departments to help combat a 100-acre brush fire in Dutchess County.

With all the absentee ballots counted, Dutchess County Legislator Joel Tyner, D-Clinton, beat Republican Patrick Dealy in District 11.

PURCHASE -- A Dutchess County woman found dead at her Purchase College, SUNY, job may have been staying in her janitorial office to save money and avoid a long commute.

A student at the Dutchess County school where an armed man held a principal hostage says he was in the counselor's office in the next room when the man walked in Stissing Mountain School and began arguing with administrators.

A Dutchess County driver involved in a head-on accident with a flatbed truck on Route 9 this morning died of his injuries, the Putnam County Sheriff's Office said.

The sheriff's department says an upstate New York high school has been locked down, and police are on the scene.

POUGHKEEPSIE "No more business as usual" said Budget Director Valerie Sommerville, in defending a long list of what she conceded were very painful choices, in putting the 2010 Dutchess County budget together.

Dutchess County Executive William Steinhaus' 529-page budget proposal includes a lot of changes - to staff, departments and services, but not a lot of details about how those changes will take effect or what effect they will have.