More than a year after resorting to bankruptcy court, the orchestra on Wednesday submitted its plan to erase debt and cut costs to a judge.

A teenage girl took top honors in the Nassau County boys high-school golf tournament yesterday, with a performance so impressive, her main opponent said it was like “getting hit by a locomotive.”
Annie Park, 17, won with a 6-under-par 72 at Bethpag…

Time Warner Cable CEO Glenn Britt says not everything on cable TV is worth watching.

Pakistani officials said an American strike on suspected militants in the northwest killed 10 people, an attack likely to raise tensions in a standoff over NATO supply routes.

Thar she blows!
The ARC Gloria, official flagship of the Colombian Navy, sailed by the Statue of Liberty yesterday during Fleet Week’s spectacular kickoff event, the Parade of Sail.
The Gloria, built in 1966, was one of 23 ships from around the worl…

A controversial study last week by the University at Buffalo on the safety of hydrofracking was not peer-reviewed, as originally stated.

GOSHEN — Forensic scientists testified Wednesday in the murder trial of Timothy Handel in Orange County Court, explaining to the jury that blood found on gloves and parts of a reciprocating saw matched the DNA profile of Katie Connolly.

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MONTICELLO – A Liberty man was sentenced Tuesday in Sullivan County Court to five years in prison for burglarizing a home in the Town of Liberty.

KINGSTON – A Kingston couple accused of robbing a pedestrian at knife-point were arrested Monday and sent to Ulster County Jail.

KINGSTON — New York City has agreed to pay a $100,000 fine for dumping billions of gallons of dirty water into the Lower Esopus Creek.

MONTICELLO – The Sullivan County Legislature has scheduled a special meeting on Friday to discuss the Apollo Plaza land on lower Broadway.

MONTICELLO – A Hurleyville man was sentenced in Sullivan County Court to 25 years in prison on Tuesday in a case of ongoing sexual abuse against a child.

WURTSBORO – Sean Scott, 27, of Bloomingburg has been charged with felony identity theft, accused of assuming a man’s identity for 13 months, obtaining personal credit information and racking up more than $4,000 in charges for goods and services.

GOSHEN — Democratic lawmakers have won enough Republican support to call a special meeting of the Orange County Legislature next week to demand additional information about the Government Center and county nursing home.