During the past three years, the City of Middletown under Mayor Joseph DeStefano enacted several codes to ramp up local prosecutions of low-level offenses. Among them, an amended fireworks law and a new quality-of-life code took offenses traditionally in the domain of the county district attorney’s office into the hands of city prosecutors. Swift fines are…
Middletown Ramps Up City Codes in Response to New York Bail Reform
July 19, 2023
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CBS New York Meteorologist Elise Finch Dies at 51
Elise Finch, an Emmy-award-winning CBS New York meteorologist, has died aged 51, the station announced Sunday. Ms. Finch died at a local hospital and her cause of death has yet to be determined, CBS News said in a statement expressing their “profound sadness” at the news. “Elise was on the air with us just this…
New York Mayor Names New Police Commissioner
New York Mayor Eric Adams on Monday appointed acting police chief Edward Caban as the city’s first Hispanic police commissioner in its 178-year history, overseeing the largest police department in the U.S. Mr. Adams, a former New York City police captain, introduced Mr. Caban, 55, during a news conference and said Mr. Caban has been…
Veteran Police Official Edward Caban Sworn in as New NYPD Commissioner
NEW YORK—Edward Caban, who joined the New York Police Department as a young patrol officer in 1991 and rose through the ranks, was sworn in Monday as police commissioner, becoming the first Latino to lead the 178-year-old department. Mayor Eric Adams administered the oath of office in front of the Bronx stationhouse where Mr. Caban…
Orange County Sales Tax Growth Slows Down at Midyear Mark
After growing at higher-than-expected rates for two years, Orange County’s sales tax collections slowed down the momentum at the midpoint of the year. Sales taxes are the largest revenue source for the county, covering nearly half the annual expenses. By the end of June, the county collected $117 million in sales tax revenue, almost the…
Tuidang Center Gets Proclamations From Local Officials to Mark ‘Quitting the Chinese Communist Party Day’
July 17, 2023
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The Global Service Center for Quitting the Chinese Communist Party, also known as the “Tuidang movement,” recently received several proclamations from local VIPs on the occasion of “Quitting the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) Day” on July 1. “Chinese people have lived through decades of mind control, brainwashing. and terror under the CCP,” the proclamation states….
Police Investigating the Gilgo Beach Killings Have Searched a Long Island Storage Facility
July 17, 2023
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AMITYVILLE, N.Y.—Detectives investigating the long-unsolved murders known as the Gilgo Beach killings searched a storage facility in the Long Island community of Amityville over the weekend, police said. Suffolk County police confirmed Monday that detectives executed a search warrant at Omega Self Storage on Sunrise Highway related to the investigation that led to last week’s…
Panelists Discuss Orange County Advantages at Chamber of Commerce Event
July 16, 2023
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At the July membership meeting of the Orange County Chamber of Commerce, four panelists from different sectors discussed what drew people to live, study, work, and do business in the county. “It is a topic that we have run for many years, and I’d like to say why not Orange County—the growth of this county…
Schumer Introduces Bipartisan Measure to Declassify UFO Records
July 15, 2023
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New legislation for creating a commission for disclosing information related to unidentified aerial phenomena is having bipartisan support, as whistleblower claims of governmental agencies withholding critical information attracted public interest recently. Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) is going to introduce the new legislation as an amendment to the defense policy bill, with Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.)…
‘Courageous Group of People’: NY Parade Highlights Persecution of Falun Gong, 415 Million People Quitting the CCP
July 15, 2023
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July 20 marks a solemn anniversary, the day on which one of the most unconscionable persecution campaigns in the history of mankind began. For many years, it was an obscure anniversary, but now more and more people around the world are becoming aware of it. On July 20, 1999, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) launched…
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