Ulster County News

A Marlboro man was asleep at the wheel when he veered off the roadway, crossed into the oncoming lane and stuck a UPS truck driven by a 39-year-old Port Ewen man, causing an accident that closed 9W in Esopus for two hours on Monday.

The Ulster County Sheriff's Office Wednesday arrested a Gardiner man they say engaged in a sex act with a young boy.

Members of the Ulster County Chamber of Commmerce took to the Hudson River, aboard the Rip Van Winkle, for the chamber's June mixer, sponsored by River Radiology of Kingston.

The 24-year-old Saugerties woman accused of raping and providing methadone to a teenage boy who died of an overdose last year was arraigned Wednesday in County Court.

The National Weather Service has issued a flash flood watch for Ulster County. Watch for bands of showers and thunderstorms across the watch area this afternoon through tonight.

According to online reports and the Internet Movie Database, Stone Ridge resident Melissa Leo has been cast in David O. Russell's 'The Fighter' alongside Christian Bale and Mark Wahlberg.

Ulster Savings Bank recently announced the promotion of Constance Harkin of Cottekill to assistant vice president of marketing at its Kingston headquarters.

Officials in a town in New York's Catskill Mountains are frowning on the party favors given to students at a recent high school prom - shot glasses.

A Hudson Valley man is headed to prison for four to 12 years for a a drunken-driving crash that killed a 20-year-old motorcyclist.

Four Pine Hill residents were arrested earlier this week allegedly for a string of burglaries in the Shandaken hamlet of Pine Hills and the Big Indian area, Shandaken police reported Friday evening.

A three-car crash on the state Thruway killed a Dutchess County woman Friday morning near the Malden service area in Ulster County.

A man who allegedly showed up armed for a gunfight on Lucas Avenue last summer was sentenced to 11 years in prison, after pleading guilty to second-degree criminal possession of a weapon.

One person has died in a collision on the Thruway that has shut down a northbound stretch of the highway in Ulster County.

A 37-year-old Kingston man has been charged with burglarizing eight places across Ulster County, including restaurants, car washes and civic groups.

Troopers are investigating early Wednesday morning shootings in just outside Ulster County and have a suspect in custody.

A Newburgh man was jailed after Lloyd town police arrested him on drug charges. Police said a patrol officer spotted Kenneth Schoonmaker, 22, on Thursday in a car parked in a municipal lot in Highland.

A Mount Tremper man has been charged with having sexual intercourse with an underage girl, state police said.

A Father's Day outing on a rain-swollen Hudson Valley creek nearly ended in tragedy for a family that had to be rescued by emergency crews.

Ulster County officials want to know why Dean Palen, their recently sidelined health director, stashed $32,000 in uncashed checks and a pile of permit applications inside a locked safe behind his wife's desk.

Authorities say two men competing in a road rally have been hurt, one seriously, when their car hurtled into a tree on a narrow dirt road in the Catskills.