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By Lissa Harris on Friday, Aug. 12, 2011 - 12:22 pm
A 21-year-old man drowned yesterday afternoon in Mohican Lake, in the Sullivan County town of Lumberland, after jumping from a rowboat and attempting to swim to shore. The Times Herald-Record reports: The young man, who was with the group in the rowboat... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Wednesday, Aug. 10, 2011 - 12:57 pm
This just in from the Albany Times-Union: An explosion this morning on a gas main near Guilderland shut down a six-mile stretch of the Thruway, and nearby homes are being evacuated. The Times-Union reports: Emergency workers and firefighters rushed to a... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Wednesday, Aug. 10, 2011 - 9:14 am
According to a news report by Cyclists International, 20-year-old Colby Samstag, a junior at the University of Pennsylvania and a member of the university's cycling team, was severely injured in the Tour of the Catskills race on Sunday. The website... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Tuesday, Aug. 2, 2011 - 9:05 am
The Cairo-Durham High School was the scene of a horrific accident yesterday morning, when the car of two students on their way to summer school pulled into oncoming traffic on Route 145 and was hit by an SUV. The accident claimed the life of 17-year-old... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Monday, Aug. 1, 2011 - 9:44 am
41-year-old Adriano Pacheco of Portugal died Saturday while trying to swim across the Delaware River near Cochecton with a friend, who survived and was treated at a local hospital. The Times Herald-Record has the details. Just last week, an eighteen-year-... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Monday, Aug. 1, 2011 - 8:57 am
27-year-old Alec Mangiaracina of Kingston died on Saturday while hiking a dangerous area of Platte Clove Gorge in the town of Hunter. According to a report from state police, Mangiaracina was hiking with his fiancée near the top of a waterfall on the east... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Thursday, Jul. 28, 2011 - 11:56 am
Photo of the Upper Delaware River. Image courtesy of Wikimedia Commons. A Brooklyn teenager (whose name is still being withheld) is missing and presumed drowned after attempting to swim across the Delaware River near Narrowsburg yesterday evening. The... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Wednesday, Jul. 27, 2011 - 10:06 pm
Bainbridge pilot Milton Petzold crashed his Piper Comanche airplane into the Susquehanna River in Sidney this afternoon, not long after taking off from the Sidney Airport. The plane had no other passengers, and Petzold walked away from the crash.... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Tuesday, Jul. 26, 2011 - 11:03 am
On Sunday evening, a man was killed in the Sullivan County town of Forestburgh when the Fiat convertible he was driving struck a tree and burst into flames. Today, the Times Herald-Record reports, he's been identified as 60-year-old Forestburgh resident... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Monday, Jul. 25, 2011 - 11:05 am
28-year-old New Jersey resident Yamil Mendez was killed on the New York State Thruway in New Paltz yesterday, when a tire failure caused the SUV he was driving to flip over. Five passengers were also injured. From the New York State Police: The New York... Read more

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