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CITY OF NEWBURGH - Anthony Grice could make history if he is successful in his campaign to become Orange County clerk. Grice, a 53-year-old Newburgh city councilman, would be the first African-American to hold that position. The office has seen 37 clerks since it was established in 1702. But that's not what he wants voters to focus on. "That's important. That's significant," Grice said. "At the same time, I do not want people to vote for me just because I'm the Black guy." He hopes voters focus more on his skills, his vision for the office and ideas for programs. Grice officially announced...

4:26 The City of Newburgh held a public hearing Monday night to present its draft report on police reform. It’s part of New York Governor Andrew Cuomo’s executive order requiring local police agencies to modernize their strategies and programs based on community input. After listening to public input, councilmembers weighed in with their thoughts. First, there was a lot of discussion about a portion of the city’s adopted Right to Know law, under which information on community members was being collected via field activity sheets. Newburgh City Manager Joe Donat announced at the start of...

Attorneys for a man convicted of a 2002 Warren kidnapping and armed robbery say there is overwhelming proof that ruling should be overturned due to confessions 10 years later by two other men along with other new evidence, some of which was not provided by authorities. Kenyon Clinton, now 40, previously of Detroit, was convicted in February 2005 of kidnapping and robbing a man a gunpoint at the Mobil gas station at Eight Mile and Schoenherr roads around midnight May 14, 2002, following a trial in Macomb County Circuit Court. He was sentenced to 37 years in prison. The culprits let the victim ...