Crime
By WP Newsroom on Tuesday, May. 11, 2010 - 5:05 pm
It has to take a particular kind of crazy to get yourself chased by the police, have your truck flip over, and then land on your wheels and keep going. And on Rte. 10 in the town of Summit, which, as its name implies, is on the top of a mountain. Elijah... Read more
By WP Newsroom on Tuesday, May. 11, 2010 - 12:22 pm
The Daily Star has been doing some digging about the tragic Mothers' Day murder of 65-year-old Daisy Schultz in her apartment in a Walton house, and a picture of Richard Utter, her 74-year-old former boyfriend and alleged killer, is coming together. ... Read more
By WP Newsroom on Saturday, May. 8, 2010 - 4:13 pm
Seventeen-year-old Larry Nix-Marks was arrested yesterday while on the way to the BOCES school in Port Ewen, for allegedly bringing a machete to, well, some kind of fight:
Capt. Michael Freer of the Ulster County Sheriff’s Office said Larry Nix-Marks, 17... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Friday, May. 7, 2010 - 8:44 pm
A Brooklyn postal worker recently headed for the hills with a trunk full of (allegedly) stolen mail and was caught red-handed, the New York Post reports.
Letter carrier Peter Ramsdal, 26, who works out of the Dyker Heights Post Office, had stashed the... Read more
By WP Newsroom on Thursday, May. 6, 2010 - 2:57 pm
On the lam: A trio of alleged paving scammers accused of pulling a bait-and-switch on elderly homeowners around Ulster County. From the Daily Freeman:
Rodney Cooper, 48, Rodney T. Cooper, 28, and James Lambert, 45, are wanted on arrest warrants for... Read more
By WP Newsroom on Monday, Apr. 26, 2010 - 11:32 pm
Thanks in part to a push from the Daily Freeman, the web service SeeClickFix is getting a lot of use in Kingston lately. The Freeman lists activity from a day in the life of the service, from complaints about potholes to barely-veiled calls for vigilante... Read more
By WP Newsroom on Sunday, Apr. 25, 2010 - 2:12 pm
Catskill High School and Middle School went on lockdown on Thursday after the superintendent heard what she thought was a gunshot. Turns out it was actually a tree limb crashing, she later told the Daily Freeman:
The schools immediately went into lock-out... Read more
By WP Newsroom on Thursday, Apr. 15, 2010 - 10:29 am
The Daily Star reports.
By WP Newsroom on Wednesday, Apr. 14, 2010 - 5:55 pm
The Daily Star reports:
A 23-year-old Oneonta woman was arrested on misdemeanor charges Monday for allegedly allowing her toddler to play with a box that contained a hypodermic needle ... The girl had been pricked in her left index finger when she... Read more
By WP Newsroom on Wednesday, Apr. 14, 2010 - 4:23 pm
From the Times Herald-Record.
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