Rockland County News

Rob Astorino, incoming Westchester County executive, was elected with a clear mandate to cut property taxes.

The Rockland County Legislature's Budget and Finance Committee meeting came and went last week without an affordable-housing group under the panel's investigation being added to the agenda.

ALBANY -- Change isn't always easy, and that came through this week in the comments of voters who marked paper ballots and scanned them into machines, rather than the old-fashioned way of pulling mechanical levers, election officials said.

A 26-year-old man accused of trying to set his house on fire was arrested Thursday after a search that included police dogs and the county helicopter.

A 36-year-old Spring Valley parolee who shot an armed man during a fight faces 10 years in prison when sentenced next month for attempted murder.

SPRING VALLEY -[0x0f] Noramie F. Jasmin won a three-way race for mayor of the village tonight, while Joseph Gross and Joseph A. Desmaret beat out a field of five challengers to win two spots on the Board of Trustees, according to unofficial returns.

Most Clarkstown incumbents running for re-election retained their seats tonight, according to unofficial results from the Rockland County Board of Elections.

Monday: Left lane Westchester-bound closed for maintenance beginning at milepost 16.2 to 13.1, between 9:30 a.m. and 3 p.m. Tuesday: Right Westchester-bound lane closed for maintenance beginning at milepost 15 to 13.1, between 9:30 a.m. and 3 p.m. Wednesday: Right Westchester-bound lane closed for maintenance beginning at milepost 15 to 13.1, ...

Stony Pt. to discuss budget at hearing STONY POINT: The Town Board will hold a public hearing to consider its proposed budget for 2010 during a workshop meeting at 6 p.m. Wednesday at the Rho building in Letchworth Village.

'Tis the season to promise the world to voters, though the gifts more than likely will not come for the holidays - this year, the next or ever.

Police are searching for a man who brandished a gun at the Taco Bell on Route 9W and later asked for a job.

Longtime NY1 political anchor Dominic Carter will appear in court today after a string of domestic-abuse accusations from his wife and family that go back years.

The Valley Cottage mother brutally attacked Sept. 18 in a New Jersey hotel parking lot remains hospitalized as detectives continue to investigate.

A public hearing on large poultry slaughterhouse set for Nov. 10 was canceled today with no new date announced.

A cat is being blamed for a fire that forced dozens of senior citizens out of their suburban New York apartments.

New York - Westchester County's intention to turn 850 acres of parkland over to bow-and-arrow violence on November 7th should not prevail.

SPRING VALLEY: A man was assaulted during an attempted robbery Saturday night on Twin Avenue at Franka Place, police said.

HAVERSTRAW - Officers arrested two teenagers on burglary charges after a chase from a Hudson Avenue house, police said Friday.

Three people from upstate New York are being held in the Rockland County jail after they were stopped on the New York State Thruway early Friday morning.

The Rockland County Bar Association's Judiciary Review and Screening Committee today released its ratings for the judicial candidates running for New York State Supreme Court and town and village courts.