Crime
By Julia Reischel on Monday, Mar. 9, 2015 - 4:02 pm
Above: A bag of heroin. Photo from a series of photographs shot by WBEZ Chicago Public Radio documenting heroin use.
Heroin addiction is sweeping through the Catskills, taking lives with it. (Here at the Watershed Post, we write more crime stories about... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Monday, Mar. 9, 2015 - 2:12 pm
A man shot a woman twice and then shot himself on the afternoon of Saturday, March 7 in Oneonta, a forensic pathologist has concluded.
The two were found dead outside their rented home in Oneonta on Sunday, March 8, in what police are investigating as a... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Wednesday, Mar. 4, 2015 - 10:42 pm
Above: First responders at the corner of Main St. and Court St. in Delhi around 8:20 p.m. on Wednesday, March 4. Photo by Fred Harris.
A fire in a wood-frame building located on a densely-packed block of Main Street Delhi was quickly subdued this evening... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Wednesday, Mar. 4, 2015 - 5:53 pm
A 49-year-old man who didn’t have a driver’s license repeatedly backed into a police car when Shandaken police tried to stop him from driving drunk in Phoenicia on Monday, March 2, police say.
Kenneth A. Jackson was attempting to drive in an “intoxicated... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Tuesday, Feb. 24, 2015 - 2:17 pm
A Delaware County man has serious injuries after his girlfriend stabbed him with a kitchen knife in a home in Hancock on Monday, Feb. 23, police say.
Left: Niki M. Patire. Photo via the New York State Police.
Twenty-seven-year-old Niki M. Patire is... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Monday, Feb. 23, 2015 - 4:58 pm
A 33-year-old employee of Windham Mountain Ski Resort was arrested on Friday, Feb. 20 for allegedly stealing thousands of dollars from the Greene County ski mountain, according to a New York State Police press release.
Jessica L. Greene, who is listed on... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Thursday, Feb. 19, 2015 - 11:30 am
Stacy Post, the supervisor of the Greene County town of Windham, was indicted by a grand jury on Wednesday, Feb. 19 on 30 counts of felony eavesdropping and official misconduct, according to the Windham Journal's Michael Ryan, who was covering the... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Wednesday, Feb. 18, 2015 - 3:26 pm
A neighborly dispute ended with an assault charge in Roscoe yesterday after 23-year-old Roscoe resident Jeremy Davis allegedly attacked his neighbor with a "small piece of lumber," according to the New York State Police.
Left: Jeremy Davis. Image via the... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Tuesday, Feb. 10, 2015 - 10:12 am
Above: The Mobil station on Cooley Place in Parksville, just off Route 17 in Sullivan County. Photo via Google Earth.
An argument over a women ended with a shooting in the parking lot of a Mobil gas station just off Route 17 in the Sullivan County hamlet... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Monday, Feb. 9, 2015 - 8:42 pm
Stephanie Fletcher (left), a 29-year-old former biology teacher who pled guilty last year to engaging in sex acts with two students, has been sentenced to six months in jail and 10 years of probation by Delaware County Judge Carl Becker, the Daily Star's... Read more