Black Bear Frightens Residents In Rockland County
There's a bear on the loose northwest of New York City, looking for food in garbage cans.
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There's a bear on the loose northwest of New York City, looking for food in garbage cans.
"If they told you in the beginning it won't be until Friday, then you know it won't be until Friday," Ray Popkin, of Livingston, said.
New City homeowners Joe Bricks and Kirk Reilly were explaining the misery of living on generator power to WCBS 880 reporter Marla Diamond, when suddenly the power came back.
Susan and Martin Sher of New City are among those on their fifth day without power. There are no utility trucks in their neighborhood, just one orange cone near some downed wires.
Utilities officials say customers could get their power back on any time between Wednesday and Saturday.
A massive tree crashed into a Ramapo home, but all five people in the house, including a 6-year-old boy, were not injured.
Moishe Turner, 58, of Spring Valley faces seven sex crime charges in connection with the alleged abuse of the teenager, according to Ramapo police.
Rockland County's problems have been growing for some time.
Clarkstown Police are looking into claims that students riding a bus to New York City for a cruise on homecoming night became violently ill because of drinking.
The woman was identified as 66-year-old Joanne DeLoatch. The park overlooks Haverstraw Bay, the widest expanse of the Hudson River.
Rockland County residents know the road to cheap gas leads down south to New Jersey.
The cost of a new Tappan Zee Bridge has been shaved to $5.2 billion by focusing solely on the bridge, a federal agency said Tuesday. That means no mass transit - rail or dedicated bus lanes - at this point.
The White House says New York desperately needs a new bridge. President Barack Obama issued an executive order Tuesday clearing the way for a long-awaited Tappan Zee Bridge replacement.
"We saw the connection between the family meal and an umbrella of protective factors," said school health coordinator Carrie Steindorff. "It protects against drug use... It is also is a protective factor against obesity."
Dozens of suspects were arrested in pre-dawn raids Monday in the third largest drug bust in Rockland County this year.
Christine Laffey is able to smile again after the flood. It is a sharp contrast to the tears that filled her days in West Nyack immediately after the hurricane last month.
Some of us feel eaten alive in a bloom of mosquitoes this summer and health experts say all the rain has created a perfect breeding environment.
Rockland County is taking out an emergency loan to pay its bills.
Sandbags are in place in Suffern where the Mahwah River is rising again, inching closer to basements where sump pumps are still warm from last week's flood.
Overnight rain water joined swollen waterways rushing to the sea. People who have just finished drying out businesses look at places like the brimming Saw Mill River with alarm.
It's been nearly a week since Hurricane Irene ravaged New York City's northern suburbs, and it's still quite obvious to anyone who goes up and down the streets.
After Hurricane Irene wreaked havoc on New York City's northern suburbs, getting back to normal continues to be a struggle.
President Barack Obama has declared a major disaster in New York after Tropical Storm Irene, freeing up federal recovery funds.
Days after Hurricane Irene made her way north, things in New York City's northern suburbs are still not back to normal.
An estimated 1.5 million gallons of sewage is discharging into Killbrook Creek which is about a quarter-mile from the Hudson.
