A Hudson Valley man has been sentenced to prison for the death of an area woman and then dumping her body, which was never found, in a landfill.Orange County resident Matthew Mercado, age 40, of Newburgh, was sentenced to a total of 16 to 19 years in prison for the incident which took place on Sunday, Nov. 3, 2019, at the Windsor Hotel in the town of New Windsor, said Orange County ...

Two suspects who admitted to being part of a nationwide fraud scheme were caught with the help of police in the Hudson Valley. The two men, Joshua Mallory, age 37, and Gary Grier, age 36, both of Fort Lauderdale, Florida, pleaded guilty on Tuesday, Dec. 20 to being part of the multi-state "Felony Lane Gang," a fraud scheme involving suspects breaking into cars and stealing debit cards ...

A teenager has admitted to fatally stabbing a 16-year-old cheerleading captain in Westchester County, officials said. Earlier Report - Teen GirI Indicted For Fatal Stabbing Of Mount Vernon Cheerleading CaptainThe 15-year-old defendant, who was not identified, pleaded guilty to the April 8, 2022 killing of 16-year-old Kayla Green in Mount Vernon on Tuesday, Dec. 20, according to ...

A bill renaming a Hudson Valley courtroom after a judge who died of a heart attack while in court has been signed into law by Gov. Kathy Hochul. Earlier Report - Judge Was Handling Family Law Matter When He Suffered Fatal Heart Attack In Putnam CountyThe bill, which names a courtroom in the Putnam Supreme and County Court after the late Putnam County Court Judge James F. Reitz, was ...

A judge in Northern Westchester has been disciplined for attempting to use his status to influence the approval of a pistol license for his neighbors. In May 2020, John M. Aronian, a Justice of the North Salem Town Court since January 2016, submitted character reference letters on behalf of his neighbors, Susan and Daniel Koch, to help their pistol permit applications get approved, ...