Tag: New York

Supreme Court Leak Investigation Update Expected at End of Month: Kagan

Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan said on Sept. 12 that justices will be updated by month’s end on the progress of an internal investigation into the wintertime leak of a draft abortion opinion that previewed the reversal of 49-year-old abortion precedent Roe v. Wade. Kagan’s comments came as the Supreme Court prepared to embark on…


Orange & Rockland Utility Sees Winter Heating Costs up 44% for Electricity, 28% for Gas

Orange & Rockland, a major utility company serving southeastern New York and northern New Jersey, forecasts substantial rate hikes for natural gas and electricity in the coming winter. Natural gas will likely cost 44 percent more than the past year; electricity, whose generation in the state of New York heavily relies on natural gas, will…


New York State Utility Sees Winter Heating Costs up 44% for Gas, 28% for Electricity

Orange & Rockland, a major utility company serving southeastern New York and northern New Jersey, forecasts substantial rate hikes for natural gas and electricity in the coming winter. Natural gas will likely cost 44 percent more than the past year; electricity, whose generation in the state of New York heavily relies on natural gas, will…


Why Are the ‘Liberal’ Rich Destroying America’s Greatest Cities?

Commentary Two powerful new articles—“The Fall of Los Angeles” by Joel Kotkin and “NYC’s Trinity School bares its unholy leftist hate” by Miranda Devine—illustrate in different ways what most of us have known for some time. America’s two greatest cities are in drastic decline. That people are departing them is hardly surprising. The real surprise…


Former MLB Pitcher Turned Cop Varvaro Dies in Car Crash

Anthony Varvaro, a former Major League Baseball pitcher who retired in 2016 to become a police officer in the New York City area, was killed in a car crash Sunday morning on his way to work at the Sept. 11 memorial ceremony in Manhattan, according to police officials and his former teams. Varvaro, 37, was…


Former MLB Pitcher Turned Officer Killed in Crash While on His Way to 9/11 Ceremony

Anthony Varvaro, a former Major League Baseball pitcher who retired in 2016 to become a police officer in the New York City area, was killed in a car crash Sunday morning on his way to work at the Sept. 11 memorial ceremony in Manhattan, according to police officials and his former teams. Varvaro, 37, was…


Middletown Gun Show Vendors See Sales Dip Following New Gun Laws

Hardly a week had passed since New York’s new gun laws went into effect when Middletown Gun Show vendor Dom Dimare started to feel the impact on his business. Sales on both semiautomatic rifles and ammunition have dropped, Dimare told The Epoch Times during a weekend gun show in the city of Middletown on Sept….


Police Believe 3 Children Drowned by Mother at NYC Beach

NEW YORK—Three children were found dead in the surf off Brooklyn’s famed Coney Island boardwalk early Monday and police believe they may have been drowned by their mother. The bodies of the 7-year-old boy, 4-year-old girl, and 3-month-old girl were found after a nearly three-hour search that began at 1:40 a.m. when a relative called…


Middletown Police to Double Street Cameras With State Grant

The Middletown Police Department will install 29 new street cameras by use of a handsome public safety grant recently approved by the state legislature. In the next six to 12 months, new cameras will be installed at busy intersections and high-value locations where the city has made large investments, such as Erie Way Park and…


US Marks 21st Anniversary of 9/11 Terror Attacks

NEW YORK—Americans are remembering 9/11 with moments of silence, readings of victims’ names, volunteer work, and other tributes 21 years after the deadliest terror attack on U.S. soil. Victims’ relatives and dignitaries will convene Sunday at the places where hijacked jets crashed on Sept. 11, 2001—the World Trade Center in New York, the Pentagon, and…