Crime
By Lissa Harris on Monday, Aug. 12, 2013 - 11:19 am
A gunman who was involved in a hostage situation and a long standoff with law enforcement in a Bovina house on Sunday is dead of an apparently self-inflicted gunshot wound, Delaware County sheriff's deputies said in a statement released at 11am Monday.... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Monday, Aug. 12, 2013 - 9:05 am
A standoff between police and an armed gunman that had the town of Bovina on lockdown Sunday has come to an end, police say. But officials are not yet releasing details about the situation, or why it is no longer active.
Delaware County Undersheriff Craig... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Monday, Aug. 12, 2013 - 12:29 am
Bovina is one of those little rural towns that deserves to be called "sleepy." By 11pm on Sunday night, it's usually lights-out for the Delaware County town's 600-odd residents. But on Sunday, August 11, lights were blazing in house after house in Bovina... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Monday, Aug. 12, 2013 - 12:01 am
View Larger MapAbove: A map of Bovina Center. A standoff between police and an armed man is ongoing tonight at a house on County Highway 5.
The subject of a manhunt in the Delaware County town of Bovina is surrounded in a house on County Highway 5, also... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Thursday, Jul. 25, 2013 - 8:18 pm
A Cairo man was recently charged with off-season poaching for shooting a 150-pound black bear near his house on May 29, according to officials from the Department of Environmental Conservation.
Joseph Budz, 40, admitted to shooting the bear, and agreed... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Thursday, Jul. 18, 2013 - 11:04 pm
An employee of the Shandaken highway department has been charged with embezzling over $20,000 from the town, some of it allegedly from FEMA funds meant for Irene flood relief.
On Wednesday, state police arrested 46-year-old Florence Sullivan of Chichester... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Monday, Jul. 15, 2013 - 9:14 pm
Above: Piles of earth surrounded by hay bales and covered with tarps dot William Hrazanek's Wittenberg Road property in Shandaken on July 11. They are part of the remediation of a chemical spill on his property. Photo by Julia Reischel.
A large chemical... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Thursday, Jun. 20, 2013 - 11:25 am
It took months of police work, and an investigation that involved a slew of law enforcement agencies, from the Walton village police to the FBI, but it finally happened: An arrest has been made in connection with a series of sadistic Facebook threats made... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Monday, Jun. 17, 2013 - 3:48 pm
A five-month investigation into local drug activity in Delaware County has netted eight arrests, county police announced today. Five women and three men were arrested recently and charged with a variety of heroin- and prescription-drug-related offenses.... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Monday, Jun. 17, 2013 - 2:35 pm
A 66-year-old Roxbury man was recently arrested on bear poaching charges, after allegedly shooting and killing a bear across the street from his house.
On May 26, according to a statement from the New York State Department of Conservation (DEC), Roxbury... Read more
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