Elia MIDDLETOWN – Western New York native MaryEllen Elia was appointed on Tuesday as the new state commissioner of education and president of the University

MONTEBELLO – A report of fire at a house at 130 Spook Rock Road in the Village of Montebello Tuesday afternoon resulted in the arrest

CONGERS – A loophole in state law that prohibits sex offenders from living within 1,000 feet of a school building or traveling within 1,000 feet

KINGSTON – The Public Safety/General Government Committee of the Kingston Common Council passed a resolution Tuesday night that would include the council in any decision

ALBANY – The counties of Dutchess, Orange, Rockland, Ulster and Westchester will receive funds from the state’s Gun Involved Violence Elimination initiative. The second year

BUCHANAN – Entergy has returned its Indian Point Unit 3 nuclear power plant to service generating electricity following a 16-day outage to replace the failed

Rodriguez KINGSTON – A Plattekill man pled guilty in Ulster County Court confessing that he committed a home burglary with a loaded gun last year.

HYDE PARK – A homeless woman was arrested on a warrant while staying at a local hotel in Hyde Park. Town Police forced entry into

FISHKILL – A Queens woman has been arrested for trying to smuggle prison contraband into Downstate Correctional Facility in Fishkill. State Police charged Jenny Balthazard,

VILLAGE OF LIBERTY – A Liberty man is in the Sullivan County Jail in lieu of $25,000 bail for allegedly stealing a motorcycle and trying