Here are some other top stories from this past week (click on the link to read the story):
- An Irvington native and West Haverstraw resident was one of two soldiers seriously injured during a fatal Black Hawk helicopter crash Monday.
- A 17-year-old high school student from Rockland County who crashed his car into a guard rail on Route 287 while overdosing on heroin was revived by police using Narcan.
- Rockland County Executive Ed Day honored 19 law enforcement officers from numerous agencies who pulled a total of 316 drunken drivers off the road in 2016.
- Tiny houses might be all the rage on HGTV, but for a Chestnut Ridge teen, the itty, bitty homes are a way for him to make a difference about two things he is passionate about -- people in need and the environment
- A man who escaped from the Rockland County Jail in 1981 where he was being held for the murder of a Monsey couple, is back in the Rockland County after serving 36 years in prison in New Jersey for armed robbery.
- A Spring Valley police officer who was off-duty when he was charged Sunday with DWI under Leandra's Law and drug possession is scheduled to appear in court on Thursday, April 27.
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