Crime Scene

The Rockland public can learn about streets gangs and anti-terrorism preparedness and other security issues across the county during two seminars on Wednesday night, May 2.

The first one focuses on street gangs – criminal groups who recruit young people and use violence. Parents can learn about gangs from 6 to 8:30 p.m. in Spring Valley at the Rockland Community College building at 185 N. Main St. Police and other experts will discuss what gangs do, how they recurit, how to … Read more of this entry »

Today, April 16, 2007, was a lot like Sept. 15, 1999, when a storm and violence came together.

While much of the county was under water today due to the Nor’easter pounding the area with rain since Saturday night, Haverstraw town police arrested Andrew Jennings for murder. He is accused of stabbing a man multiple times in the chest in an Haverstraw village apartment on Route 9W after an aborted drug deal.

Earlier today, Stony Point Point police arrested a woman, ... Read more of this entry »

In their first political debate of the 2007 election season, Rockland Sheriff James Kralik and Clarkstown Detective Sgt. Tim O’Neill, a Stony Point councilman, will discuss issues face to face today from 11:15 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. at the Palisades Room in Casey Hall at Dominican College in Orangeburg.
Kralik is the Republican candidate, while O’Neill is running as a Democrat. The election is in November.
The college’s Student Government Association is sponsoring the leadership symposium.

If you have 11 minutes and 29 seconds to spare, go to “Rockland 9-11 Tribute”:http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-2460639655091860998

You will find a tribute to the Rockland volunteer firefighters killed on Sept. 11, 2001, as New York City firefighters, police officers or working down in the city. Have some tissues with you, you might need them.

The tribute is filled with photographs of the firefighters with their children and wives, as well as at work.

The tribute has music, including “Wind Beneath My Wings” by … Read more of this entry »

I have worked on two sad news stories in the past week. There was the plane crash last Wednesday that killed the pilot Gregory Doppke and his two passengers, Richard Lomas and Andrew Young, who were flying from White Plains to play golf in North Carolina. Then there was the death Sunday of Stuart Cohen, a beloved narcotics investigator who developed a mystery illness after raiding a heroin stash house.
There are always the questions that follow these sorts of unusual … Read more of this entry »

Anyone who has kept tabs on Lower Hudson Valley events in recent months has likely heard of “RoccerMom,” the Yorktown mother who was just jailed for the drunken-driving crash last year that killed her daughter’s 16-year-old friend. Her real name is Ann Marie Ciarcia, the 47-year-old wife of former Yorktown Town Engineer Dan Ciarcia. The Sept. 18 predawn crash, which came after Ciarcia spent the night clubbing with her own teenaged daughter and her friend, captured more than a few … Read more of this entry »