Orange County News

Last year, Circleville firefighters responded to 176 medical emergency calls in its district - one-third of the total calls it handled.

Joseph Minuta of New Windsor received an Orange County 2009 Rising Star award during a recent breakfast at Anthony's Pier 9 in New Windsor.

SLEEPY HOLLOW - The mother of a former Sleepy Hollow man whose boat was found adrift Saturday in Greenwood Lake, N.Y., said her son was taking his vessel out for a final spin for the season and screamed for help before he went missing.

An Orange County man who was convicted last month of fatally shooting his girlfriend in Milton was sentenced today to 25 years in state prison.

The search for an Orange County man missing since Saturday when his boat was found undamaged with its engine idling will resume later this morning.

Share + Nov 17, 2009 7:05 pm US/Eastern Reporting Dave Carlin GREENWOOD LAKE, N.Y. 1 of 1 Divers search Greenwood Lake in Orange County for the body of Steve Zaicek, whose boat was found adrift without him on it.

The future of Orange County just got a little greener. Two farms in the Town of Crawford and one in Montgomery will be protected forever now that they've sold their development rights to the state and the nonprofit Open Space Institute.

Authorities are searching for an Orange County man after his fishing boat was found adrift in a lake at the New York-New Jersey border.

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.

NEWBURGH - A series of raids on drug rings in Orange County led to the arrests of 44 people Thursday, state officials said.

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.

State Police and authorities from the State Attorney General's Office have conducted a major narcotics sweep today in eastern Orange County.

The Orange County Arts Council has announces its annual award recipients, to be honored at a Nov.

Authorities say dozens of people have been arrested in a major drug bust in the Hudson Valley.

A fast moving fire Thursday morning raged through a two-story wood frame house on Albany Post Road in the Middle Hope Fire District in the Town of Newburgh.

The man accused of killing a Newburgh woman apologized for that crime in the parking lot of Town Court.

NEW CITY A Highland Mills man has been arrested and arraigned for allegedly stealing thousands of dollars from his nephew's lawsuit settlement money, set aside in several trusts following the death of the victim's mother.

A custodian at Purchase College was found dead Tuesday in the theater building, the Medical Examiner's Office said.

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.

Until last week, the Orange County-run transfer station off Route 17M was little more than a set of concrete cubbies where haulers and homeowners dumped their trash - a place so primitive and overused that it earned the county $60,000 in fines two years ago.