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Violent Gang Members Nabbed Stealing From Hudson Valley Home Depots, Police Say Violent Gang Members Nabbed Stealing From Hudson Valley Home Depots, Police Say
Violent Gang Members Nabbed Stealing From Hudson Valley Home Depots, Police Say Three men who are part of a violent street gang have been charged with stealing thousands of dollars of merchandise from Home Depot stores on several occasions in the Hudson Valley. The three men, all from Brooklyn, were busted in Dutchess County around 2:45 p.m. on Tuesday, Aug. 29 in the village of Wappingers Falls. According to Wappingers Falls Police Commissioner Paul Italiano, the police department received a call of a larceny in progress at the Home Depot store located at 1570 Route 9, Imperial Plaza in the village of Wappingers Falls. Three men had filled garbage bags with electri…

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by Kathy Reakes
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1-Year-Old Boy, Woman Killed In Horrific Two-Vehicle Route 9 Crash 1-Year-Old Boy, Woman Killed In Horrific Two-Vehicle Route 9 Crash
1-Year-Old Boy, Woman Killed In Horrific Two-Vehicle Route 9 Crash A 1-year-old infant and a 48-year-old woman were killed in a two-vehicle crash on a busy stretch of Route 9. The crash took place around 3:30 p.m., Monday, March 1, on Route 9 in Wappingers Falls, in the area of New Hackensack Road, said New York State Police Trooper AJ Hicks.  An initial investigation revealed a 2017 Honda CRV, driven by Loraine Baker, age 48, of Poughkeepsie, was southbound on Route 9 and rear-ended a southbound 2005 Chevrolet TrailBlazer, Hicks said. Baker was airlifted to Westchester Medical Center where she died from her injuries, he added. The driver of the Tra…

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by Kathy Reakes
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Cold Case Hudson Valley Homicide Remains Unsolved Mystery Cold Case Hudson Valley Homicide Remains Unsolved Mystery
Cold Case Hudson Valley Homicide Remains Unsolved Mystery Nearly a half century ago, a charming Roy C. Ketcham High School graduate and artist, was murdered after leaving work on a summer night in 1970. Since that time, the Dutchess County Sheriff’s Office Detective Bureau has been looking for the killer or killers of Alice Susan Vrablic, a 20-year- old Wappinger resident, said Capt. John Watterson. During the summer of 1970  Vrablic was employed as a waitress at Howard Johnson’s on Route 9 in Poughkeepsie, and at the end of the summer was planning on returning to France to study art at the University of Paris. On the night of Aug. 22, 1970, she …

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by Kathy Reakes