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NEW PALTZ, N.Y. — The Police Chiefs Association of Ulster County will be honoring law enforcement personnel and civilians for their efforts at an upcoming awards banquet, an announcement said.The ceremony is scheduled for Wednesday, May 22, and will take place at Novella’s New Paltz, 2 Terwilliger Lane.The banquet will begin with a “posting of […]

KINGSTON, N.Y. — A Lake Katrine man accused of providing the drugs, alcohol, and fentanyl that led to the 2022 death of his daughter was not originally perceived as a suspect, according to law enforcement personnel who testified in pretrial hearings at Ulster County Court on Thursday. Collin Schlegel was indicted last September along with […]

KINGSTON, N.Y. — A town of Ulster woman was sentenced to serve seven years in state prison for stabbing and slashing her ex-boyfriend, the Ulster County District Attorney’s Office said Thursday. Ariel Supple, 29, was sentenced on Wednesday, Feb. 7, in Ulster County Court by Judge Bryan Rounds, who also imposed three years of post-release […]

KINGSTON, N.Y. — The father of a 14-year-old girl and his partner provided the drugs, alcohol and fentanyl that led to the girl’s death in 2022, authorities said Wednesday. The girl’s father, Colin L. Schlegel, 34, and Kristin Delsanto, 29, were both residents of an apartment at 781 Neighborhood Road, Lake Katrine. They were indicted […]

MENDON, Mo. (AP) — An Amtrak passenger train traveling from Los Angeles to Chicago struck a dump truck Monday in a remote area of Missouri, killing th

Three people were confirmed dead in the crash - two on the train and one in the dump truck - after the trains eight cars and its two locomotives derailed when they collided with the truck

An Amtrak passenger train traveling from Los Angeles to Chicago struck a dump truck Monday in a remote area of Missouri, killing three people and injuring dozens more as rail cars tumbled off the tracks and landed on their sides, officials said.

MENDON, Mo. — An Amtrak passenger train traveling from Los Angeles to Chicago struck a dump truck Monday in a remote area of Missouri, killing three people and injuring dozens more as rail cars tumbled off the tracks and landed on their sides, officials said. Two of those killed were on the train

The patrol said the fourth fatality was aboard the Southwest Chief train, as were two others who died. The driver of a dump truck that was hit by the train Monday near Mendon, Missouri, also died.

Mike Spencer, 64, had long warned Amtrak and the Missouri Department of Transportation to make improvements to the crossings in Mendon before Mondays deadly crash.