Rockland County

An antisemitic rant during a sermon at a Rockland County mosque set off a firestorm of outrage after the sermon was posted online. NBC New York’s Sarah Wallace reports.

News 4’s Melissa Colorado shares the details. 

TevaLand, a sanctuary farm in Hillburn, is fighting for tax-exempt status to continue helping rescue animals, Sarah Wallace reports.

A community is asking a lot of questions about a rabbi’s non-profit organization and it’s finances, mostly regarding his efforts to make his properties exempt from taxation. NBC New York’s Sarah Wallace reports. 

Several members of the ultra-orthodox community have written letters to town building officials and the Rockland County Health Department complaining that Rabbi Nissan Arash Kakakian is operating an illegal yeshiva and rooming house in two homes zoned as single-family houses.

There’s a neighborhood controversy in Rockland County regarding a religious school and its approach to fire safety as well as breakdown of code enforcement. NBC New York’s Sarah Wallace reports. 

A New York man is facing charges after shooting another man to death at his suburban home, then putting the victim in his car and setting it on fire just off the Palisades Parkway, according to the district attorney.

Mourners gathered in a New York community on Friday afternoon to grieve the loss of a 5-year-old girl, struck and killed by a school bus only hours early. The young victim had just been dropped off by a school bus near her Spring Valley home when she was hit, local authorities said. It happened around 10:30 a.m. The heartbreaking scene…

A funeral was held in Monsey just hours after the girl’s death. News 4’s Sarah Wallace reports. 

The game stopped in the fourth quarter by a coach claiming racial slurs were being directed at his players. News 4’s Sarah Wallace reports. 

One passerby saw the commotion and jumped into action, saving an 8-month-old girl from the top floor. One man from a neighboring complex said he rushed in — climbing a tree and hopping a fence to get to the building’s fire escape and reach the top floor to save the baby girl. “I saw a lot of people over there,…

A man said he rushed over and climbed a fire escape to get the child to safety. 

Law enforcement officials in New York were left mystified after a car was captured on surveillance video rolling into the Hudson River, then disappeared along with its driver. The Piermont Police Department said officers responded at around 2 p.m. Wednesday to a report of damage at the village’s popular pier on Ferry Road. Officers found “vehicle tire marks in...

New York State Police troopers shot and killed a suspect who fired on them during a traffic stop on NYS Thruway, police said. News 4’s Chris Jose reports.

New York state troopers have killed a person in a shootout on a major highway, after stopping a vehicle identified in a shooting investigation. State police say two troopers stopped the vehicle on the New York State Thruway in Hillburn near the New Jersey line just before 3 p.m. Wednesday. Authorities say the driver opened fire on the troopers, who...

A person is dead on the New York State Thruway following a police shooting, local officials tell NBC New York.

A Rockland County woman lost thousands of dollars to a ransomware scam and said “Better Get Baquero.” Lynda Baquero reports.

A town in Rockland County is cracking down on property management companies and absentee owners looking to make money off the migrant crisis. The town of Clarkstown is going after those who are illegally renting out houses, often to multiple families. Officials in the town say profiteers are increasingly illegally converting single-family homes in neighborhoods and packing in renters. The…

Some property management companies have been taking advantage of the migrant crisis by illegally renting out homes to migrant families. Sarah Wallace reports.

Investigators in New York say a tip led them to dozens of undocumented immigrants living inside a single-family home in Rockland County apparently bussed to town from New York City. A Cape Cod-style home in New City now at the center of the probe is zoned for a single family, but looks can be deceiving based on what officials said…