Rockland County

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…

Officials in Rockland County are alleging possible human trafficking after they received information about a particular single-family home with more than 30 undocumented people from South America, including several children, living in unsafe conditions. NBC New York’s Sarah Wallace reports.

In an effort to keep students safe buses in Rockland County have been outfitted with cameras. Pat Battle reporting.

A tractor trailer traveling southbound on I-87 struck the South Broadway overpass in Rockland County Thursday morning — causing lane closures ahead of the busy holiday weekend. The truck was carrying a large pipe when the incident occurred around 6:45 a.m. at milepost 16.4 where the maximum allowable height on the Thruway is 13 feet 6 inches. The hit was…

Like many volunteer fire departments around the country, the Monsey Volunteer Fire Department in Rockland County needed a lifeline. “We were struggling a few years ago,” says spokesman Aaron Lerer, a veteran firefighter. “We knew we had to get creative to attract and keep new members.” The biggest challenge: working around the restriction that doesn’t allow firefighters who have...

Volunteer firefighter members in one county is becoming increasingly reflective of the community. Sarah Wallace reports.

Sarah Wallace reporting on the controversial decision after a 2021 fire killed a firefighter and an adult daycare resident.