Men posing as utility workers rob woman
Missing fisherman’s body found in river
ROTTERDAM, N.Y. (AP) — Police have found the body of a man who apparently fell into the water and drowned while fishing in New York’s Mohawk River.
A New York state police helicopter team located the body of 55-year-old Kevin Straut in the Mohawk River near Rotterdam at 1 p.m. Saturday.
Straut’s wife had called police earlier to report her husband missing. She said he had gone out fishing Friday evening and never returned.
Clothing and fishing gear belonging to Straut was found a few miles from where his body was found.
The Rotterdam Police Department says it appears that Straut fell into the water accidentally but the investigation is ongoing.
Woman’s death under investigtion
NEW YORK (AP) — The New York Police Department is investigating the death of a woman found in her apartment with a cut to her neck.
Authorities say officers responded to a 911 call shortly before 5 a.m. Sunday on West End Avenue in Manhattan.
They found a 70-yearold woman unconscious and unresponsive in her apartment, with the laceration.
Emergency services pronounced her dead at the scene.
NEW YORK (AP) — Police say two men posing as utility workers robbed a woman of $2,500 after making their way into her home.
The New York Police Department says the men knocked on the door of the home near Oriental Boulevard and Ocean Avenue in Brooklyn on Thursday afternoon.
They told the 88-yearold woman who lived there that they needed to check a utility issue inside the home.
Authorities say once they got inside, they demanded money and forcibly took it from the woman. They then fled in a truck driven by a third person.
Police say the woman was not injured.
She was identified as Susan Trott.
No arrests have been made, and an investigation is ongoing.
Driver faces DWI count after eightvehicle crash
MELVILLE, N.Y. (AP) — A Long Island woman has pleaded not guilty to a charge that she was driving while intoxicated during an eight-vehicle chainreaction crash on the Long Island Expressway.
Newsday reports that 45-year-old Suzanne Butler was arraigned Saturday and released without bail.
The crash happened around 10:30 p.m. Friday near Exit 49 in Melville.
Suffolk County police say the problems started after a car fire clogged traffic in eastbound lanes.
In the slowdown, two cars collided. That crash spiraled into an eightvehicle pileup, including an oil tanker and a minivan that skidded and got wedged under the tanker.
Police say Butler, of East Meadow, was driving the minivan. She was taken to a hospital with minor injuries and later was arrested on a DWI charge.
Five other people also suffered minor injuries.
Albany bar shut down over underage drinking
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — The State Liquor Authority has shut down a bar popular with Albany college students after finding the tavern was more than twice over its capacity and most of its 150 patrons were underage.
The agency says investigators and Albany police officers conducting a compliance inspection around 1 a.m. Oct. 12 at the Varsity Lounge found about 150 customers inside a place with a legal maximum capacity of 70.
Officials say only 15 customers were old enough to legally drink in the establishment.
The SLA has suspended the bar’s liquor license and agency officials say they intended to have the license permanently canceled or revoked. The bar’s owners have been cited for more than three dozen violations of the state alcoholic beverage law.