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Bethel Man Charged With DUI After Westport Traffic Stop Bethel Man Charged With DUI After Westport Traffic Stop
Bethel Man Charged With DUI After Westport Traffic Stop WESTPORT, Conn. -- A 28-year-old Bethel man was charged with driving under the influence after Westport police stopped him Thursday and tests showed his blood alcohol level was twice the legal limit, police said.Police said Walter Goodkind was driving at a high rate of speed when police spotted his car at about 1 a.m. Thursday on Allen Raymond Lane. After officers smelled alcohol on his breath, he failed the field sobriety test, police said. While in custody, blood alcohol tests showed his level was more than twice the .08 legal limit, police said. His first test was .2276 and the second tes…

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Police & Fire
Beacon Woman Accused Of Stealing $34,000 In Government Assistance Beacon Woman Accused Of Stealing $34,000 In Government Assistance
Beacon Woman Accused Of Stealing $34,000 In Government Assistance BEACON, N. Y. -- A Beacon woman is facing fraud charges after the Dutchess County Sheriff's Department say she misrepresented her family's income to receive more than $34,000 in day-care assistance from the government.Elida G. Almonte, 41, of Beacon, is due in Poughkeepsie court Jan. 26 to face third-degree grand larceny and third-degree welfare fraud charges, sheriff's police said.  She was arrested Tuesday, Jan. 12, after an investigation by Dutchess County Sheriff's detectives and officials with the Dutchess County Community and Family Services Department. Police said she took $34,748 in…

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Police & Fire
Electrical Work May Have Caused Ossining Fire, Officials Say Electrical Work May Have Caused Ossining Fire, Officials Say
Electrical Work May Have Caused Ossining Fire, Officials Say OSSINING, N. Y. -- No one was injured Saturday in a fire at a vacant Ossining building that officials believe may have been caused by an electrical shortage sparked by construction at the building, News 12 Westchester is reporting. It started at around 7 a.m. Saturday in the building on Spring Street. News 12 Westchester said it is unclear if the building is planned for residential or office use. Click here to read the full article. 

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Police & Fire
Greenburgh Police First In Westchester To Use Body Cameras Greenburgh Police First In Westchester To Use Body Cameras
Greenburgh Police First In Westchester To Use Body Cameras GREENBURGH, N. Y. -- Greenburgh police say they will be the first police agency in Westchester to use body cameras, according to News 12 Westchester, but they join a growing number of departments nationwide to use the new technology. Town Supervisor Paul Feiner said the department tested cameras in 2015, and has now ordered 60 cameras for officers, according to CBS New York. Officials expect all officers to have a body camera by the end of the year, News 12 Westchester reports. Police departments nationwide have been considering the use of body cameras following police incidents in New York…

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Schools
Dutchess County Schools May See Boost In State Aid Dutchess County Schools May See Boost In State Aid
Dutchess County Schools May See Boost In State Aid DUTCHESS COUNTY -- Dutchess County school district officials may be getting some help with their own budgets if Gov. Andrew Cuomo's proposed $145 billion state budget moves forward with the promised 4.3 percent increase in state aid for schools, the Poughkeepsie Journal is reporting.The 16 Dutchess County school districts would see an increase ranging from 2 percent to 5.5 percent from the state under this 2016-17 spending plan for the state. The state's fiscal year starts April 1, the Poughkeepsie Journal said. Wappingers, the county's largest school district, would get a 3.6 percent increa…

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Police & Fire
Three Trumbull Firefighters Injured While Putting Out House Fire Three Trumbull Firefighters Injured While Putting Out House Fire
Three Trumbull Firefighters Injured While Putting Out House Fire TRUMBULL, Conn. -- Three firefighters were treated for minor injuries from extinguishing a structure fire Friday that gutted a house in Trumbull, fire officials said.Firefighters from Trumbull Center, Long Hill and Nichols fire departments worked for at least 20 minutes to put out the fire at a house on Sunnycrest Road. The call came in at about 11:45 a.m., fire officials said. In a post on the Trumbull Volunteer Fire Co. No. 1 Facebook page, people offered the condolences to the family for the loss of the house, and the family dog. Trumbull fire officials also had help from the Monroe and …

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Business
Walmart Closing 269 Stores: View The List Walmart Closing 269 Stores: View The List
Walmart Closing 269 Stores: View The List Wal-Mart Stores Inc. officials announced Friday that the company is ending the Walmart Express pilot program, meaning the company plans to close 102 Walmart Express stores nationwide plus another 167 underperforming stores worldwide in a move that is expected to affect 16,000 employees, 10,000 of whom are in the U.S.In a news release on the Walmart website Friday, company officials said this follows a review of Walmart's 11,600 stores worldwide to look at financial performance as well as how the store fits in the company's overall plan. A total of 154 stores nationwide will close this month,…

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Business
China’s Haier Agrees To Buy GE Appliance Business For $5.4B China’s Haier Agrees To Buy GE Appliance Business For $5.4B
China’s Haier Agrees To Buy GE Appliance Business For $5.4B FAIRFIELD, CONN. -- More changes are in store for Fairfield-based General Electric Co. after company officials agreed to sell the GE appliance division for $5.4 billion to Chinese manufacturer Haier Group, which will continue to make the appliances under the GE name, the Wall Street Journal reports.Jeffrey Immelt, GE’s chairman and chief executive officer, said Haier officials plan to grow their business in the United States while also growing the GE brand worldwide, the Wall Street Journal says. The deal comes after GE terminated its deal to sell the business for more than $3 billion to Elec…

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Schools
Briarcliff's Waldock Gains Intel Science Talent Semifinalist Status Briarcliff's Waldock Gains Intel Science Talent Semifinalist Status
Briarcliff's Waldock Gains Intel Science Talent Semifinalist Status BRIARCLIFF MANOR, N. Y. -- Briarcliff High School's Dalton Waldock made the list of 300 high school seniors nationwide selected as a semifinalist in the Intel Science Talent Search Competition.All semifinalists get $1,000 in scholarship money, plus $1,000 for their school. Forty finalists will be announced Wednesday, then invited to participate in a March competition in Washington, D.C. "I was completely speechless," Waldock said of finding out he'd been selected as a semifinalist. Waldock researched his project, titled “The Spectroscopic Measurements vs. a Langmuir Probe Analyses…

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News
Suffern Native Paralyzed In Crash Marries In Boston Suffern Native Paralyzed In Crash Marries In Boston
Suffern Native Paralyzed In Crash Marries In Boston Suffern native Garrett FitzGerald, paralyzed in a New Hampshire car crash in December while on duty with the Secret Service, got married last weekend in his Boston hospital room, lohud.com reports.FitzGerald, a 2003 Suffern High School graduate, suffered spinal cord injuries in the Dec. 29 car crash that killed the other car's driver. FitzGerald was riding with other Secret Service agents working with Hillary Clinton's campaign when the other car crossed over the center line and struck it head-on, lohud.com says.  FitzGerald and his fiancee -- now wife -- Joan Lyall, had just moved to Boston…

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