DAILY NEWS A du Pont family heir who pleaded guilty nearly six years ago to raping his 3-year-old daughter was never put behind bars because a Delaware judge ruled he “would not fare well” in prison, court records show. Robert H. Richards IV — scion of the family who built the chemical empire and kin […]
PRESS RELEASE FROM NYS TAX DEPT Governor Andrew M. Cuomo today announced a new Cigarette Strike Force to crack down on illegal tobacco trafficking and sales. The multi-agency Strike Force is composed of state, local and federal agencies dedicated to stopping the influx of counterfeit and untaxed tobacco products into New York. The Strike Force […]
PRESS RELEASE Meghan Casey, a resident of Blauvelt, New York and a member of the class of 2015 at Providence College, recently spent a week working in the Mexico, as part of the College’s Feinstein Academic Institute’s Alternative Spring Break 2014 program. Casey was among 21 PC students who volunteered to spend their spring break […]
BY CHRIS FAULKNER California recently established the most stringent energy-extraction restrictions in the nation. As the CEO of a natural gas firm, you probably think I vigorously opposed these rules. You’d be wrong. In fact, California’s new law is a welcome step in the evolution of the American energy market. One of the biggest inhibitors […]
Clarkstown drained its reserves keeping afloat budgets rippled with a river of structural deficits. It must now sell a Town asset for cash or lose its Triple A bond rating. Clarkstown’s seniors will be muzzled and ‘sold down the river’ for cash. BLOG BY MICHAEL HULL From news reports it is becoming increasingly worrisome that the Town […]
Advisory: Potential for Heavy Rain this weekend The Rockland County Office of Fire and Emergency warns that weather forecasts see an increasing chance of a 2 to 4 inch rainfall starting Saturday afternoon and ending Monday morning. Light rain is forecast to develop and spread northeast across the area Saturday morning. Rain will become moderate Saturday […]