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By Lissa Harris on Friday, Feb. 3, 2012 - 10:17 am
21-year-old Daniel Hughes of Highland was killed yesterday in a one-car accident on Route 9W in Esopus.
Mid-Hudson News reports that Hughes was the son of an Ulster County sheriff's deputy.
A press release from the New York State Police:
State Police at... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Thursday, Jan. 19, 2012 - 9:28 am
A tragic accident claimed the life of a Hunter Mountain employee on the mountain yesterday morning: 41-year-old Brian Mattice of Gilboa.
Police say Mattice slipped on ice and fell down a steep slope while working with snow-making equipment, and died on... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Tuesday, Jan. 17, 2012 - 9:30 am
The Daily Mail reports that a man who jumped from the Rip Van Winkle Bridge last Wednesday, and whose body was recovered from the Hudson River the next day, has been identified as a Greene County resident.
State police said Aleksandr M. Tchernikov, 45,... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Monday, Jan. 9, 2012 - 6:31 pm
80-year-old Verna Hess of Callicoon died Sunday morning when her car hit a utility pole on Route 52 in White Sulphur Springs, the Times Herald-Record reports.
[Sullivan County sheriff's] deputies found Verna Hess inside of a 1991 Buick Century. The White... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Wednesday, Dec. 14, 2011 - 5:38 pm
Town of Ulster police officer Travis Nissen was just 27 years old when he was killed in an off-duty car accident on Route 28 in Olive on Friday, December 9.
Today in a ceremony attended by over 100 fellow police officers, family and friends gathered to... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Monday, Dec. 5, 2011 - 9:16 am
Video: A news clip from WNYT 13, which reported on Saturday's fire.
An electrical fire at a house in Greenville on Saturday, December 3 killed 17-year-old Vincent Greco, a Coxsackie resident and student at Greenville High, the Daily Mail reports.
Greco... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Monday, Nov. 21, 2011 - 1:22 pm
The Daily Freeman and Times Herald-Record are reporting two deaths in the town of Ulster over the weekend, in unrelated auto accidents: 28-year-old Amber Haley and 45-year-old Gerald Bowden, both residents of Ulster.
More information:
Times Herald-Record... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Monday, Nov. 14, 2011 - 12:42 pm
On Wednesday, November 9, 19-year-old Hancock resident Brett Sherburne died after suffering a head injury while hunting on land near his home, according to a press release from the New York State Police.
The Binghamton Press and Sun-Bulletin has Sherburne... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Tuesday, Oct. 4, 2011 - 1:58 pm
Catskill resident Harry Carr, 52, was struck by a car and killed around 7:30 pm on Monday, October 3, near a rest area off Route 23 in the town of Catskill. The incident is still under investigation.
A press release issued today by the New York State... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Monday, Sep. 26, 2011 - 12:31 pm
In the early hours of Sunday, September 25, 27-year-old Broome resident Richard Welden was shot and killed by New York State Police troopers after a confrontation near his sister's house on Route 145.
Police say that troopers who responded to a domestic... Read more
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