BY DIANE DIMOND If I were a betting woman, I’d plunk down $10 right now and bet that suspected Boston Marathon bomber, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, will die in prison and not in an execution chamber. Yes, U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder recently announced the feds will seek the death penalty for Tsarnaev, but chances are the […]
A.G. says Sprint has evaded seven years of sales tax A.G.’s PRESS RELEASE NEW YORK — Attorney General Eric T. Schneiderman today announced a major victory in his first-of-its-kind lawsuit against Sprint-Nextel Corp. for deliberately undercollecting and underpaying millions of dollars in New York State and local sales taxes on flat-rate access charges for wireless […]
BY CHERYL SLAVIN For over 30 years pizza maker Gary Moses of Napoli’s Pizza in New City has thrown the dough. Hundreds of pies a week have added up to thousands of pies a year. But the long, repetitive of hours of tossing and shaping his wares have taken their toll; the tendons of his […]
“No person turned away” breaking hospitals’ banks BY KATHY KAHN How are hospitals faring under the Affordable Care Act? Steven Kroll, vice president for governmental affairs for the Hospital Association of New York State (HANYS) on Thursday spoke with members of the Rockland Business Association at the Pearl River Hilton on the changes taking place […]
Portions of the proceeds from the seventh annual Penguin Plunge benefit fundraiser in Nyack this year will go to two local youngsters who have suffered from severe health problems. Those children will get help with their medical bills from money raised when hardy adults voluntarily take a winter dip into the frigid Hudson River in […]
By Michael Riconda NYACK – Severe ice damage to I-87/287 just north of the Tappan Zee Bridge forced Thruway officials to undertake emergency pothole repairs on Wednesday. The New York State Thruway Authority scheduled several hours worth of repairs to the stretch of Thruway between exits 9 and 10 for 4 p.m. However, in response […]