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By Lissa Harris on Tuesday, Jun. 18, 2013 - 5:57 pm
A 21-year-old Delhi man drowned on the West Branch of the Delaware River on Tuesday after he fell from his kayak.
Around noon on Tuesday, according to a news release from the Delaware County Sheriff's Office, local first responders and police responded to... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Monday, Jun. 10, 2013 - 3:16 pm
A military contractor from Hunter was among three Americans who were shot and killed on Saturday on an Afghan army base in the Pakikta province of Afghanistan, several news outlets are reporting.
The Times Union reports that 54-year-old defense contractor... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Monday, Jun. 10, 2013 - 9:38 am
A two-car accident in the town of Liberty on Friday claimed the life of a 46-year-old Rock Hill woman.
According to a New York State Police press release, Kim Gessner was driving west on Ferndale-Loomis Road in a 2008 Nissan Versa around 9am on Friday. As... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Friday, May. 17, 2013 - 4:31 pm
A man whose body was found floating in the Delaware River near Tusten on Saturday, May 4 has been identified from dental records.
Police say the man, whose body was found by canoeists, is 56-year-old James Estes of Nicholson, PA. Estes was reported... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Wednesday, May. 15, 2013 - 11:24 am
Longtime Prattsville resident Donald Olson -- a Prattsville town justice, former clerk of the Greene County Legislature, and deeply involved member of the close-knit Prattsville community -- was killed in a head-on collision on Route 23 in Windham on... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Monday, May. 6, 2013 - 8:14 am
A body was pulled from the Delaware River on Saturday afternoon, the Times Herald-Record reports.
Around 3pm, the paper reports, state police and local officials responded to a call of a body floating in the water, and recovered the body from the river... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Thursday, May. 2, 2013 - 9:25 pm
Update, Friday, 5/3/2013: The body of the pilot, 72-year-old Copake resident Michael B. Braunstein, was recovered by divers on Friday, about 24 hours after the plane crashed.
A small plane crashed into the Hudson River between Greene and Columbia Counties... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Wednesday, Apr. 10, 2013 - 4:28 pm
The Daily Freeman reports that Frederick Schussler Jr., life member and former assistant chief of the Lomontville Fire Department, was killed on Wednesday when a car he was working on fell on him:
The man — identified by his sister as Frederick Schussler... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Thursday, Mar. 28, 2013 - 1:09 pm
A motorcycle rider was killed when he drove through a red light and collided with a pickup truck on Route 23 in Cairo early Wednesday evening, police say.
According to a statement from the New York State Police, 56-year-old Donald Parkinson of Cairo was... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Tuesday, Mar. 26, 2013 - 11:22 pm
A man has been found dead at the scene of a fire on Route 28 in Shokan that forced the closing of Route 28, and drew hundreds of police and first responders, on Tuesday afternoon.
According to a statement released by New York State Police late Tuesday... Read more
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