DUTCHESS COUNTY, N.Y -- A series of events will be held throughout Dutchess County on Monday to commemorate the 16th anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks.LaGrange will be hosting a memorial service at Stringham Park at 78 Stringham Road at 8:30 a.m.East Fishkill will be hosting a memorial at East Fishkill Town Hall at 330 Route 376 in East Fishkill at 6:30 p.m.Hyde Park is hosting a ...

DUTCHESS COUNTY, N.Y. -- Daryl's House, the music club and restaurant at Route 22 in Pawling owned by Daryl Hall of Hall & Oates, is taking the town to court, claiming harassment.The suit, filed last week in New York State Supreme Court in Dutchess County, says the town began to put up procedural roadblocks and reneged on previously issued approvals as it tried to establish a ...

POUGHKEEPSIE, N.Y. – Just three years ago, there were more than 60 homes in Poughkeepsie’s 1st Ward that were empty eyesores, says Councilman Chris Petsas.Now that neighborhood-depressing number is down to 37, thanks in part to happenstance, but mostly due to hard work put in by city officials and residents.A shining example of one such turnaround is 36 Gifford Ave., Petsas said ...

DUTCHESS COUNTY, N.Y. -- A live-action, adventure-travel television competition consisting of 40 rally teams barnstormed through Beacon and Poughkeepsie on Wednesday and Thursday, amid a gathering of onlookers and elected officials. “The Fireball Run” tracks 40 rally teams competing in an eight-day, 2,000 mile trivial pursuit game in which contestants visit selected destinations to ...

POUGHKEEPSIE, N.Y. -- Firefighters from Westchester County gathered to hear a message of cancer hope outside of Poughkeepsie's Main Street fire station.With Tower Ladder 2 as a backdrop, U.S. Sen. Charles Schumer stood alongside firefighters from Poughkeepsie, LaGrange, Fairview and Arlington as a plan was announced to establish a specialized national cancer registry.The proposed ...

HYDE PARK, N.Y. -- The Claudio Cares Foundation continued to honor the memory of a lost Hyde Park teen, on Monday, Aug. 8th, with its Third Annual Claudio Coppola Memorial Golf Tournament.Sixteen-year-old Hyde Park resident Claudio Coppola was killed in a one-car accident on Crum Elbow Road in Hyde Park in 2012. His parents, Lisa and Luigi Coppola, owners of Coppola's Restaurant in Hyde ...

POUGHKEEPSIE, N.Y. -- City of Poughkeepsie Police are still seeking witnesses to help identify the killer of David Cline, a contractor from Ancramdale who was found murdered at 4 Edgar St. in late July.Cline's body was discovered by the homeowner that had hired him to perform work. According to Acting Police Chief Thomas Papas, detectives have tracked Cline's movements to the McDonald's ...

POUGHKEEPSIE, N.Y. --Two of the five people who were struck by lightning in Mansion Square Park that killed one person Friday afternoon are still in critical condition, but improving at Vassar Brothers Medical Center.One of the two 46-year-old men is expected to be moved to a regular room within 48 hours, said Tim Massie, senior vice president of Public Affairs and Government Relations ...

This story has been updated.POUGHKEEPSIE, N.Y. -- One of the five people injured in a lightning strike late Friday afternoon at Mansion Square Park has died, authorities said Saturday morning.The person who died is a 50-year-old man whose name has not yet been released.The lightning strike, which occurred just before 4:30 p.m., reportedly hit a tree, sending electric volts through ...

POUGHKEEPSIE, N.Y. -- Five people have been injured, three critically, from an apparent lightning strike late Friday afternoon in Mansion Square Park following a thunderstorm.The city's 911 call center received calls reporting people struck by lightning around 4:20 p.m., according to City of Poughkeepsie Detective Lt. Matt Clark.When rescue units arrived, they found a total of five ...