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By Julia Reischel on Tuesday, Apr. 14, 2015 - 4:37 pm
Above: The sign at the Sullivan Correctional Facility. Photo by Medic18 via Wikipedia.
An inmate at the maximum security Sullivan Correctional Facility in Fallsburg is dead and three correctional officers are injured, two with "serious physical injuries... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Wednesday, Apr. 8, 2015 - 9:38 am
Above: County Road 2 -- also known as the Andes-Delancey Road -- in Andes snakes its way down a steep hill into the hamlet. Image via Google Earth.
A 27-year-old Binghamton man died of "severe head trauma" after crashing his car on a downhill curve in... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Tuesday, Mar. 17, 2015 - 1:58 pm
A one-year-old child was killed in a mobile home fire at Foxcroft Village in the Sullivan County hamlet of Loch Sheldrake on Tuesday, March 17, according to reports from the Times Herald-Record and the Sullivan County Democrat's Facebook page.
The child... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Monday, Mar. 16, 2015 - 4:04 pm
A 56-year-old woman riding on a float in a St. Patrick's Day parade in the Sullivan County hamlet of Rock Hill was killed on Saturday, March 14 after falling off and being run over by a trailer towing a backhoe, according to the New York State Police and... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Tuesday, Jan. 20, 2015 - 3:52 pm
A toddler vacationing at a camp in Loch Sheldrake reportedly drowned in a bathtub the morning of Tuesday, Jan. 20, according to multiple Sullivan County news outlets.
A sergeant answering the phone at the Fallsburg Police Department said that no one was... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Thursday, Jan. 8, 2015 - 11:21 am
Travis James Roloson was heading home to celebrate his birthday on Monday when his red 1997 Honda CRV drifted off the road and into a tree, killing him instantly, police and his family say.
Roloson, who turned 31 on Jan. 5, was driving north on East River... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Monday, Dec. 29, 2014 - 6:02 pm
Above: A chair lift at Hunter Mountain in December 2014. Photo by Schezar, via Flickr.
A Brooklyn woman died after falling 25 feet from a chair lift at the Hunter Mountain ski resort in Greene County on Sunday afternoon, Dec. 28, according to the New... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Monday, Dec. 15, 2014 - 1:10 pm
Above: A Yamaha Grizzly 350 all-terrain vehicle. Photo via the Yamaha product website.
A 68-year-old man driving an all-terrain vehicle on a wooded trail in High Falls died on Sunday, Dec. 14 after his ATV flipped over, pinning him beneath it, according... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Thursday, Dec. 11, 2014 - 12:30 pm
A 48-year-old Walton man died on Tuesday, Dec. 9 after the vehicle he was driving veered off the road and into a tree in the Delaware County town of Hamden, according to the Delaware County Sheriff’s Office.
Kelvin J. McKnight was driving north on Route... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Wednesday, Dec. 10, 2014 - 2:55 pm
Above: A 65-year-old New York City woman is dead after five tractor trailers and two passenger vehicles crashed on Route 17 in Sullivan County on Tuesday, Dec. 9. Photo by John of Catskills Photography, via Flickr.
Icy road conditions early on the... Read more