In the days leading up to the ambush killings of two NYPD Officers in Brookyln, the street climate at some of the many ongoing NYC protests had been growing angrier and more extreme. Last weekend, as reported first by the Rockland County Times, a gathering of over 100 protesters marched through Murray Hill, shouting, “What do we […]
NY POST Two uniformed NYPD officers were shot dead Saturday afternoon as they sat in their marked police car on a Brooklyn street corner — in what investigators believe was a crazed gunman’s execution-style mission to avenge Eric Garner and Michael Brown. “It’s an execution,” one law enforcement source said of the 3 p.m. shooting […]
FROM RPD For one Ramapo family, Hanukkah, the Jewish Festival of Lights, was brighter than they would have ever asked for. A lit candle from a menorah found kindling and soon a fire consumed much of their home at 1 Tauber Terrace, Town of Ramapo. The fire, which was reported at 5:04 p.m., Friday as […]
A sexually violent offender has recently been released from state prison in Fishkill and placed at the rooming house above Whistle Stop pub, 150 Main St., Nanuet. Hugh Scala, 47, was accused of having sexual contact with a 4-year-old female on Dec. 12, 2006 and arrested by the Stony Point PD. He was convicted of […]
According to a regulatory dictate proposed this week by Governor Cuomo, NY’s Medicaid program will soon cover the cost of sex change surgery and hormone therapy for transsexual beneficiaries. The rule follows on the heels of Cuomo’s decision to mandate private insurers to offer the same procedures. The Cuomo administration claims the new regulation is […]