Mid Hudson News

11/26/2025

From Award-Winning Journalist Hank Gross

11/26/2025

CAIRO – Three Cairo residents have been arrested and charged in connection with the death of a 69-year-old Cairo man. Rodney Pitt, 46, and Drew White, 23, were charged with murder, conspiracy, tampering with physical evidence and concealing a human co**se. Tania Pitt, 43, was charged with tamperin...

11/26/2025

GOSHEN – State-appointed monitor Brian Sanvidge has vetoed the Orange County Industrial Development Agency’s financial incentives package for the proposed giant Amazon distribution center in the Town of Wawayanda. In a formal resolution obtained by Mid-Hudson News, Sanvidge wrote that the IDA re...

11/25/2025

NEWBURGH – By a four to two vote with one member absent, the Newburgh City Council Monday night adopted the 2026 budget of some $72 million. The general fund includes the two firefighters that council members added to the city manager’s proposed spending plan.

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NEWBURGH – By a four to two vote with one member absent, the Newburgh City Council Monday night adopted the 2026 budget of some $72 million. The general fund includes the two firefighters that council members added to the city manager’s proposed spending plan. There had been discussion to add tw...

11/24/2025

CATSKILL – A Greene County Court jury has convicted a Cairo man of murder and attempted murder. The jury found 37-year-old Jeffrey Field in the killing of Adam White and attempted murder of Christopher Gere which he committed on August 22, 2021 while on Summit Avenue in the Village of Catskill.

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CATSKILL – A Greene County Court jury has convicted a Cairo man of murder and attempted murder. The jury found 37-year-old Jeffrey Field in the killing of Adam White and attempted murder of Christopher Gere which he committed on August 22, 2021 while on Summit Avenue in the Village of Catskill. Gr...

11/24/2025

WHITE PLAINS – An eight-person jury in White Plains federal court has awarded an African American cybersecurity expert formerly employed by pharmaceutical giant Merck a $6 million verdict for intentional racial discrimination.

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WHITE PLAINS – An eight-person jury in White Plains federal court has awarded an African American cybersecurity expert formerly employed by pharmaceutical giant Merck a $6 million verdict for intentional racial discrimination. The verdict, handed down on Friday, came after seven hours of deliberat...

11/24/2025

SOUTHEAST – An early morning shooting in Southeast Sunday has resulted in the arrest of a Southeast man on charges of attempted murder. The Putnam Sheriff’s Department was summoned to the Towne Center Shopping Plaza off Route 22 at 4:45 a.m. for a report of a shooting. Sheriff Brian Hess said de...

11/24/2025

CATSKILL – A Greene County Court jury has convicted a Cairo man of murder and attempted murder. The jury found 37-year-old Jeffrey Field in the killing of Adam White and attempted murder of Christopher Gere which he committed on August 22, 2021 while on Summit Avenue in the Village of Catskill. Gr...

11/20/2025

MIDDLETOWN – State Police have charged Zenaida Soriano-Rincon of Middletown with manslaughter for leaving her two-year-old toddler in an unventilated car for over eight hours in September. The child, whose gender was not released, died as a result of temperatures inside the car. Soriano-Rincon was...