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A Beacon resident arrested by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in June has been removed from the country, the agency said on Thursday (Aug. 7). ICE officers detained Santos Belarmino ...
Blooms resemble paint spilled in water Putnam County has closed 14 beaches because of elevated bacteria levels or harmful algae blooms, including Cortlandt Lake in the Continental Village section of ...
During World War II, 1,704 Beacon residents, about 14 percent of the population, served in the Armed Forces. At least 67 men died, and many survivors suffered physical and mental disabilities. Now, ...
Ostentatious wealth was how the 58-pipe organ built by Johnson & Company in 1873 came to be installed in Tioronda, the sprawling mansion owned by the Civil War general Joseph Howland on the outskirts ...
Charged with installing cameras in a restroom A former Stonecrop Gardens employee was arrested on April 18 and accused of secretly filming girls in 2018 and 2019 as they used a public restroom. A ...
What were some of the significant trails in the Highlands? The Mohican Trail was likely the most important. It started in what is now Manhattan and went quite far north to Mohican territory. Later it ...
A 20-second clip from the security video shows Mo Dabashi attempting to take the milk jug from Medina, who responds by throwing it on the floor, where it burst open. Emad Dabashi, who was walking ...
Developer to buy former bank building The Star of Bethlehem Baptist Church, a historic Black congregation in Beacon born in 1900 when its founders began worshipping in a private home on North Avenue, ...
Residents raised concerns about 2012 shooting A Cold Spring police officer who was the supervisor at the scene of a fatal shooting of an unarmed black man in New York City in 2012 said this week he ...
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Arol Wulf and Wulf Zendik Zuman felt early on that Zendik fit the pattern of a cult. “My working, sound-bite definition of a cult is a group of people in thrall to a leader who uses fear, false hope ...
From a Thomas Edison invention to the solving of a 50-year mystery, local mines are rich with stories ...