Category: Mid-Hudson

BREWSTER – Tragedy has befallen the Brewster Police Department for the second time within the past two weeks. Officer Jose Colon, 54, was pronounced dead at Hudson Valley Hospital Center in Peekskill-Cortlandt Friday night, after his car drove off Route 202 in Yorktown and slammed into a concrete abutment. Colon retired earlier this year from…

NEWBURGH – Several area fire departments were called to the City of Newburgh before 7 a.m. on Saturday to a two-alarm fire at 24 City Terrace. Flames were through the roof of the two-story building when firefighters arrived. Two people, who were reported to have jumped from the building, were treated by EMS personnel at…

PUTNAM VALLEY – An off-duty Westchester County police officer residing in Putnam Valley was killed Thursday evening when his Kubota compact tractor overturned ejecting him. The Putnam Sheriff’s Office identified the victim as Alfred Mosiello, 42, of Seifert Lane. Undersheriff Thomas Lindert said 911 calls sent members of the sheriff’s office, Putnam Valley Fire Department,…

POUGHKEEPSIE – Congressman Pat Ryan (D, NY-18) and State Assemblyman Jonathan Jacobson (D, Newburgh) both called on the State Public Service Commission to deny Central Hudson rate increases proposed by administrative law judges. The utility wanted to increase electric delivery revenue by 27.5 percent and gas delivery revenue by 33.2 percent. But administrative law judges…

NEWBURGH – With the sudden departure of Newburgh City Police Chief Anthony Geraci one week ago, Lt. Brandon Rola has been appointed as the new chief. He was appointed from an existing civil service list and is therefore the permanent chief, a city spokesman said. He took command Friday, May 3 at 4 p.m., however,…

KINGSTON – A 30-year-old Kingston woman, who was convicted by an Ulster County Court jury last fall for possession of guns and drugs, pled guilty to felony drug charges in the middle of a second trial on other charges. Corena Kelley’s current trial and conviction stems from a search warrant executed in her apartment on…

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. The City of Poughkeepsie Police Department…

CARMEL – A retired member of the New York City Police Department who lived in Carmel will be remembered Saturday at the New York State Fraternal Order of Police (FOP) Memorial held on Long Island. Lt. John McArdle died in March 2023 from 9-11 related cancer. Putnam Stephen Driscoll FOP chapter President Pete Conlin remembered…

WHITE PLAINS – Sharon Toney-Finch, 43, the founder of YIT Foundation that gained national attention last year when she claimed that veterans in her care were evicted from a Town of Newburgh hotel to make way for migrants arriving in the Hudson Valley, was arrested by the FBI today (May 1, 2024).  Her story was…

POUGHKEEPSIE – Police are looking for a black man who was wearing a gray hoodie with the hood up and a COVID mask when he is believed to have shot two teenagers near Poughkeepsie High School Tuesday afternoon. The original Mid Hudson News coverage of the incident, with video footage from the scene, can be…