Dutchess County

A man fell to his death from the Newburgh-Beacon Bridge in New York’s Hudson Valley after he got out of his car that had broken down on the highway, according to police.

If your heart sinks a little bit every time you hear New York announce a “first case” of something these days, you’re not alone. This latest development out of the Empire State needn’t make it sink further, but it is something of which state Department of Environmental Conservation officials urge you be aware. The agency confirmed Wednesday that a...

A 3-year-old boy and a grandmother were killed after they were struck by a garbage truck at an intersection in New York, according to police.

The school bus driver involved in a deadly crash with a New York State Police vehicle in Dutchess County earlier this week allegedly failed to stop at a stop sign while entering a highway, triggering the collision, state police said Friday. It was the first update on the investigation since Wednesday when NYSP said it couldn’t share additional details...

The New York attorney general’s office has launched an investigation into the Dutchess County school bus crash that claimed the life of a bus monitor a day ago, authorities said Wednesday. The bus, with Arlington School District, collided with a New York State Police vehicle just after 3 p.m. on Route 55 and South Cross Road. The aide was pronounced…

A bus aide was killed after a New York State police vehicle and a school bus were involved in a crash Tuesday afternoon, according to police.

A father in New York was arrested after allegedly assaulting his 2-month-old child, requiring the newborn to be hospitalized, police said.

A quarry worker in New York was trapped in a mine Tuesday afternoon after a 40- to 50-ton boulder became dislodged from a wall and landed on the machinery the man was operating, according to the local fire company.

It’s enough lights to blind Clark Griswold’s neighbors — in fact, it’s 25 times as many lights as the beloved Chevy Chase character put on his house.

A beautiful house in Dutchess County filled with so many Christmas lights has set a new Guinness Book of World Record, beating their own record of most lights at a residential home.
NBC New York’s Gilma Avalos reports.

The 61-year-old pilot who crashed a small plane into a Dutchess County home two years ago had cocaine in his system, a federal report says. The National Transportation Safety Board findings on the August 2019 plane crash determined the pilot, Francisco Knipping-Diaz, had traces of cocaine in his urine. His cause of death, as determined by the Dutchess County medical…

A 32-year-old Dutchess County man allegedly stabbed three of his neighbors during some sort of argument, killing one of them before taking his own life, officials say. It’s not clear what prompted the 11 p.m. Wednesday dispute on Walnut Drive, but the victims appear to all be from the same family. William McGoorty, 35, died at the scene, while Robert…

A bus carrying more than dozen inmates caught fire on its way to a state prison in southern Dutchess County

A man and woman in their 20s got into trouble while tubing down Dutchess County’s Ten Mile River over the weekend, losing their watercraft and being forced to cling to a downed tree in the middle of the water as they awaited rescue. One of them apparently was able to call 911 as they clung to the wood in the…

There are reports that wind speed reached 58 mph overnight in Dutchess County as storms rolled through the tri-state area. NBC New York’s Gaby Acevedo reports.

A tornado touched down in New York during the line of powerful thunderstorms that moved through the tri-state Wednesday afternoon. The EF-1 tornado touched down at 2:49 p.m. just south of the Dutchess County town of Amenia, close to the Connecticut border, and moved northeast through the town, according to the National Weather Service in Albany — which had issued…

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A man accused of walking onto the Senate floor last month and taking photographs of election-related documents is facing charges for his alleged participation in the deadly riot at the U.S. Capitol, federal officials say. Christopher Moynihan, 30, was arrested Thursday by the FBI at his residence in Salt Point, New York, in Dutchess County. Moynihan is charged in a…

Conservative activist and self-described “former liberal” Brandon Straka, a Dutchess County man and a Westchester County man who was allegedly identified by his varsity football jacket are among the latest to be charged federally for their alleged roles in the violent siege at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6. Straka, the founder of the “WalkAway Campaign” which helps guide former…

More people in our area were arrested Thursday in connection with the siege at the U.S. Capitol. Sarah Wallace reports.