CRIME & SAFETY
Video of shooting surfaces; police investigating leads (GRAPHIC VIDEO)
POUGHKEEPSIE – The “ambush-style” shooting of two teenagers in front of Gray’s Market on South White Street in Poughkeepsie was captured on several neighborhood cameras, including a Ring doorbell camera video of which Mid Hudson News has obtained a copy. Graphic in nature, the video has...
New Paltz campus torn by police response to protesters
NEW PALTZ- More than 130 people were arrested at the SUNY New Paltz Campus on Thursday evening after university officials say they ignored orders to disband a student-led encampment in protest the conflict in Gaza. Similar encampments and rallies were held at college campuses around the nation, including at Vassar College in Poughkeepsie.
Rolison responds to shooting of teens
POUGHKEEPSIE – State Senator Rob Rolison, a former Poughkeepsie mayor, reiterated that “public safety is the top priority,” in response to the April 30 shooting of two teenage males near Poughkeepsie High School. The shooting was described as an “ambush-style shooting” by City of Poughkeepsie Police Chief Tom Pape.
Letter to the Editor: How SUNY New Paltz observed the anniversary of the Kent State massacre
Like many, I am absolutely appalled that, on the eve of the anniversary of the Kent State massacre, Darrell Wheeler, President of SUNY New Paltz, called in, at great waste of tax dollars, State and Town police and the County Sheriff’s office, who then committed felonies against students peacefully assembled to protest college investment in the genocidal regime of Israel. Tents had been removed, and students were quietly sitting on a quad on their own campus, which they and their families have paid for them to attend.
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