Putnam County News

Traffic on Interstate 684 slowed to a crawl after a lumber truck rolled over on Interstate 84 in Danbury, Conn., yesterday afternoon, backing up traffic in both directions as far as into Putnam County.

Putnam County Clerk Dennis Sant is warning homeowners against a mailing from a company called New York Retrieval Inc.

Separate two-car accidents on the Taconic State Parkway were slowing southbound traffic in Putnam Valley and slowing northbound traffic in Briarcliff Manor at 8 a.m. today, police said.

A Patterson man who was driving with a blood-alcohol content more than three times the legal limit is among 12 motorists charged with driving under the influence of alcohol during weekend traffic stops in Putnam and Westchester counties, state police said today.

A registered sex offender who was living within 1,000 feet of a licensed child-care center was charged yesterday under the Putnam County Child Safety Zone law after he failed to move despite being ordered to last year, county Sheriff Donald B. Smith said.

A broad measure of economic activity shows that sales in Westchester and Putnam counties are tumbling at their fastest pace in at least 19 years.

Town Board candidates Matthew Neuringer and Joseph DePaola signed what they are calling a contract with the residents of Southeast yesterday, pledging to fulfill seven promises if elected.

BREWSTER - Members of an immigration-reform group formed in the wake of 9/11 came to Brewster yesterday to decry the recent deaths of a mother and daughter who police say were killed by an illegal immigrant driving drunk.

CARMEL - Zacaria Conses-Garcia, the Southeast man indicted on two counts of aggravated vehicular homicide after striking and killing a mother and her young daughter while he allegedly drove drunk, is scheduled to appear this afternoon in Putnam County Court.

County Executive Robert Bondi has offered an olive branch to Putnam legislators in their stalemate over the future of a popular home septic-repair program.

Troopers charged three motorists with misdemeanor driving while intoxicated in separate traffic stops last night and early today in Putnam and Westchester counties, state police said.

A routine traffic stop involving Putnam County Legislator Anthony Fusco, R-Mahopac, in March 2008 has led to a court odyssey stretching from state Supreme Court in Putnam to the Appellate Division in Brooklyn before winding up in Putnam Valley Town Court last month.

A rebellion among some Putnam County advisory board members appears to be in its early stages over a requirement that they fill out financial disclosure forms or face a $10,000 fine.

Troopers charged two motorists with misdemeanor driving while intoxicated after traffic stops last night and this morning in Westchester and Putnam counties, state police said.

A surveillance camera on the Gateway Dental Center building on Route 22 in Brewster captured the horrific crash last week in which an allegedly drunk driver struck and killed a mother and daughter, a prosecutor said today in Putnam County Court.

Just over a year after he killed a bicyclist in a collision with his van in East Fishkill, a Putnam County man was sentenced yesterday to up to three years in prison for the crime.

LAGRANGE - A Putnam County woman was drunk when she ran a red light in Dutchess County early today, state police said today.

The Putnam Legislature's Health Committee has threatened to sue County Executive Robert Bondi over his refusal to spend an additional $2 million in watershed funds to extend a popular repair program for failing home septic systems.

CARMEL The man who drove his pickup truck while drunk, running down and killing a mother and daughter, has been indicted by a Putnam County grand jury on charges of aggravated vehicular homicide.

CARMEL - Zacaria Conses-Garcia, who is accused of being drunk when he struck and killed a mother and her young daughter with a pickup truck as they were walking out of the child's dance class Monday, was indicted today by a Putnam County grand jury.