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By Lissa Harris on Friday, Sep. 20, 2013 - 3:08 pm
A 50-year-old man was killed late Thursday night when he skateboarded into the path of a state police cruiser on Route 23A in the village of Tannersville.
According to a New York State Police statement issued Friday, 50-year-old Bernard Hamilton of... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Monday, Aug. 26, 2013 - 11:06 am
Michael Jacobs, mayor of the Delaware County village of Stamford and a prominent local lawyer with the firm of Jacobs & Jacobs, died suddenly on Saturday.
The Daily Star reports that the cause of Jacobs' death was a heart attack, according to family... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Monday, Jul. 8, 2013 - 10:46 am
A Cayuga County husband and wife were killed in a one-car crash in Meredith on Sunday afternoon.
The accident occurred around 3:30pm on Turnpike Road when the driver of the 2013 Toyota, 65-year-old Barbara Secord, lost control of the car. The car ran into... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Wednesday, Jun. 19, 2013 - 3:48 pm
It's been a perilous week on Greene County roads and trails.
On Wednesday morning, state police say, two Athens women walking along the shoulder of Cauterskill Road in Catskill were struck by a car that drifted off-course. One died; the other was injured... Read more
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
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