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By Robert Cairns on Monday, Feb. 8, 2016 - 10:31 am
Above: Police say the body of a Walton man was found in this burned-out apartment in Walton. Photo by Robert Cairns.
Police say a man died in an early morning fire on Monday, Feb. 8 at an apartment house at 22 Benton Avenue in the Delaware County village... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Thursday, Jan. 21, 2016 - 4:46 pm
Two men died after a 1996 Dodge Ram pickup truck hit a tree in the Ulster County town of Rosendale on Wednesday, Jan. 20, police say.
The men, 58-year-old driver Ronald Myroniuk and 58-year-old passenger Robert Myroniuk, both of Cottekill, were driving on... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Thursday, Jan. 21, 2016 - 4:38 pm
Above: The intersection in the village of Walton where a man was killed after being hit by a car last Thursday. Image via Google Maps.
A 31-year-old man was killed on Thursday, Jan. 14 after being hit by a car in the Delaware County town of Walton,... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Thursday, Jan. 14, 2016 - 4:36 pm
The driver of a piece of farm equipment died on Wednesday, Jan. 13 when the vehicle, a four-wheel payloader, sank upside down in an icy pond in the Schoharie County town of Wright, according to the Schoharie County Sheriff's Office.
A press release issued... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Thursday, Nov. 5, 2015 - 10:42 am
2:25 p.m. update: A 75-year-old Shandaken woman was killed in a head-on crash on Route 28 in the Delaware County hamlet of Arkville at 6:17 p.m. on Wednesday, Nov. 4, according to a press release issued by the New York State Police.
Harriet A. Rauchut was... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Friday, Oct. 2, 2015 - 2:22 pm
On Friday, Oct. 2, the Army National Guard removed a deadly pileup of logs from the Esopus Creek where 14-year-old Jordyn Engler drowned last month.
A warning sign has also been installed, apparently in the last 24 hours, by the New York Department of... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Friday, Sep. 11, 2015 - 11:28 am
Above: SUNY Delhi's campus. Image via Google Maps.
A SUNY Delhi freshman from Wappingers Falls was found dead in a wooded area above the hillside campus on Tuesday, Sept. 8, according to a college official.
The student, who is not being identified by the... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Thursday, Sep. 10, 2015 - 9:07 am
Above: A video report from NBC New York about the death of three people on Route 17 on Sept. 7.
A couple and their future son-in-law died in a fatal rollover crash on Route 17 in the Sullivan County town of Mamakating on Labor Day, according to a New York... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Wednesday, Sep. 9, 2015 - 1:48 pm
The place where 14-year-old Jordyn Engler drowned on the Esopus Creek on Saturday, Sept. 5 was near a notorious local river hazard. But that didn’t stop a Catskills tubing company from dropping her off at an abandoned tubing launch nearby.
The hazard, a... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Sunday, Sep. 6, 2015 - 2:45 pm
A 20-year-old man from Stamford died in the early morning hours of Friday, Sept. 4 after being accidentally pinned by his car on the side of the road in the Delaware County town of Davenport, police say.
Travis J. Barra was found dead underneath his 1996... Read more
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