POUGHKEEPSIE, N.Y. (AP) — Ryan Funk had 25 points as Marist easily defeated Niagara 79-58 on Friday night.

Funk shot 9 for 12 from the field, including 7 of 9 on 3-pointers.

Darius Hines had 12 points and six assists for Marist (10-14, 5-7 Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference). ...

POUGHKEEPSIE, N.Y. (AP) — Neftali Alvarez hit a go-ahead layup and scored 11 points, Jesus Cruz sank three free throws in the final 12 seconds and Fairfield scored the final seven points to beat Marist 57-52 on Saturday.

Brian Parker’s bucket gave Marist a 52-50 lead with 1:52 left, but ...

POUGHKEEPSIE, N.Y. (AP) — Isaiah Lamb scored 15 points and Ryan Funk twice made three free throws to help Marist defeat Iona 78-74 on Thursday night.

Marist led by 10 or more points for much of the second half. Iona was within 67-62 with 3:21 remaining before the Red Foxes pushed the lead ...

NEWBURGH, N.Y. (AP) — A New York lawmaker and a police detective were participating in a homeless count when they heard loud popping noises that turned out to be a fatal shooting.

Democratic Orange County Legislator Kevindaryan Lujan (keh-vihn-DEHR’-ee-an loo-HAHN’) tells the

POUGHKEEPSIE, N.Y. (AP) — Cameron Young scored 29 points with six 3-pointers and Quinnipiac beat Marist 92-78 on Friday night, scoring a season-high point total in snapping a two-game skid.

The Bobcats (9-9, 4-3 Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference) led just 39-37 at halftime. But Quinnipiac ...

POUGKEEPSIE, N.Y. (AP) — A military veteran and a retired teacher have helped dozens of students in New York’s Hudson Valley attend college through a scholarship program.

Eddie and Norma Ramirez of Poughkeepsie — the parents of two biological sons — say it feels like they have 142 ...

POUGHKEEPSIE, N.Y. (AP) — Evan Fisher scored 17 of his 23 points in the second half and Siena made 5 of 6 free throws in the final 30 seconds to defeat Marist 71-66 on Friday night and end an 11-game losing streak in conference road games.

Sloan Seymour added 12 points for the Saints ...

POUGHKEEPSIE, N.Y. (AP) — Several hundred people gathered for a funeral of a Hudson Valley Marine killed when two military planes collided off the coast of Japan in December.

The Poughkeepsie Journal

POUGHKEEPSIE, N.Y. (AP) — Brian Parker and Ryan Funk scored 17 points apiece and Marist cruised to a 78-63 victory over Manhattan on Tuesday night.

Parker’s scoring effort moved him into seventh place on the Red Foxes all-time list. The senior guard added six rebounds and four assists, and ...

POUGHKEEPSIE, N.Y. (AP) — Takal Molson scored 19 points, Jibreel Faulkner added career highs of 18 points and four 3-pointers and Canisius defeated Marist 75-72 in a Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference opener Thursday night.

Ryan Funk made Marist’s 11th 3-pointer of the game to get the Red ...

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — Seven organizations across New York state are splitting more than $3 million in state funding to curb gun violence and help people impacted by shootings.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced earlier this week that the funding will go to not-for-profit groups in Mount Vernon, ...

POUGHKEEPSIE, N.Y. (AP) — Desmond Cambridge scored 30 points to lead Brown to a 78-53 victory over Marist on Saturday.

Joshua Howard scored 13 points and Obi Okolie added 10 for Brown. At 8-4, the Bears are one victory short of matching the school-record for nonconference wins in a ...

POUGHKEEPSIE, N.Y. (AP) — Dutchess County has joined a handful of New York counties banning or requiring fees for single-use plastic bags.

The measure passed by the Dutchess County Legislature requires stores to switch to paper or reusable bags by 2020. It must be signed by County ...

POUGHKEEPSIE, N.Y. (AP) — Authorities say a fire that killed four people seeking shelter in an abandoned Hudson Valley house appears to have been started accidentally.

Fire officials have said all the victims appeared to have been homeless people who were staying inside the city of ...

POUGHKEEPSIE, N.Y. (AP) — Fire investigators continue to search for the cause of a blaze that destroyed an abandoned house in the Hudson Valley, killing four people authorities believe were homeless.

Fire officials in the city of Poughkeepsie tell the

POUGHKEEPSIE, N.Y. (AP) — Officials say four bodies have been recovered from the charred ruins of a long-vacant three-story house that was destroyed by fire in the city of Poughkeepsie.

City Fire Chief Mark Johnson says the victims are believed to be homeless people who had been staying in ...

POUGHKEEPSIE, N.Y. (AP) — Police have arrested a New York county corrections officer in connection with the stabbing death of his ex-wife.

The Poughkeepsie Journal

POUGHKEEPSIE, N.Y. (AP) — Anthony Lawrence threw for 303 yards and three touchdowns and San Diego completed its third straight undefeated Pioneer Football League regular season with a 31-14 victory over Marist on Saturday.

Lawrence was 21-of-27 passing and snapped a tie for the Toreros’ ...

POUGHKEEPSIE, N.Y. (AP) — Brian Parker scored 21 points to lead Marist to an 82-76 victory over Columbia on Saturday night.

Marist (1-1) trailed just once, and led by as many as 13 points in the first half before Columbia cut the deficit to 38-35 at halftime. The Lions pulled to 54-50 ...

POUGHKEEPSIE, N.Y. (AP) — Jacob Hallenbeck threw four touchdown passes —three in a 28-point second quarter — and Marist beat Valparaiso 35-24 on Saturday for the Red Foxes’ fourth straight victory.

Hallenbeck was 15 of 25 for 215 yards and an interception. He found Juston Christian alone ...

POUGHKEEPSIE, N.Y. (AP) — Authorities say three people have been shot and wounded while filming a music video in a Hudson Valley city.

Police tell the

POUGHKEEPSIE, N.Y. (AP) — Austin Day threw for 440 yards and five touchdowns and Marist beat Davidson 48-41 in double overtime Saturday for its second straight comeback win.

Day’s passing yardage set a school record and his 21 completions tied a program record. It was Marist’s first ...

POUGHKEEPSIE, N.Y. (AP) — Vassar College and Dutchess Community College are opening their doors to each other’s students.

The two Hudson Valley schools announced an agreement Monday that enables full-time students from one college to take up to two courses per year at the other school ...

POUGHKEEPSIE, N.Y. (AP) — Jacob Hallenbeck ran for two scores and threw for a third as Marist returned home for the first time since its season opener to beat Dayton, 28-17 in a Pioneer Football League contest Saturday afternoon, snapping a string of three straight losses.

Hallenbeck ...

POUGHKEEPSIE, N.Y. (AP) — A teacher in upstate New York has resigned after he handed out a syllabus that contained profanity and language some considered offensive.

Cesar Olivares faced backlash at Poughkeepsie High School for including “if you can afford your phone bill/expensive sneakers ...

POUGHKEEPSIE, N.Y. (AP) — New York’s Marist College is teaming up with a regional health care company to create a new medical school.

The college announced this week that it will join forces with the hospital network Health ...

POUGHKEEPSIE, N.Y. (AP) — Gunther Johnson threw for 369 yards and four touchdowns and Georgetown’s defense forced four turnovers as the Hoyas rolled past Marist 39-14 Saturday in the season opener.

Each of Johnson’s scoring passes went to a different receiver. Max Edwards hauled in a ...

POUGHKEEPSIE, N.Y. (AP) — A lawsuit settlement has been reached in a New York kayak drowning after the victim’s fiancee served prison time for criminally negligent homicide.

The family of Vincent Viafore had filed a wrongful death lawsuit to prevent Angelika Graswald from collecting ...

Recent editorials of statewide and national interest from New York’s newspapers:

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The Poughkeepsie Journal on education in New York state

Aug. 6

Given their recent tortured history on a slew of issues, New York education officials aren’t exactly inspiring public ...

POUGHKEEPSIE, N.Y. (AP) — Authorities say a man’s body has been found along the Hudson River in upstate New York where a man disappeared last week while swimming with friends.

The Dutchess County Sheriff’s Office says it was notified around noon Tuesday that a body was spotted in the water ...

POUGHKEEPSIE, N.Y. (AP) — Police are searching for a man who disappeared in the Hudson River in upstate New York.

Poughkeepsie police say they received a call of two swimmers in distress near Waryas Park around noon Tuesday.

The city fire department says firefighter Kenneth Deichler ...

POUGHKEEPSIE, N.Y. (AP) — Authorities are searching for a 49-year-old man who went missing in the Hudson River off Poughkeepsie.

Rescue crews from local police and fire departments and the Coast Guard were deployed Tuesday afternoon after a report of two swimmers in distress.

One of ...

POUGHKEEPSIE, N.Y. (AP) — A woman who was trapped under debris after a vacant seven-story building partially collapsed onto another building in Poughkeepsie has been rescued.

Poughkeepsie Mayor Rob Rolison told the

POUGHKEEPSIE, N.Y. (AP) — A barge fitted with glassblowing equipment is making a stop in Poughkeepsie.

The 80-foot-long barge operated by the Corning Museum of Glass is docking along the Hudson River at Poughkeepsie Friday through Sunday. The craft is equipped with electric glassblowing ...

PHILIPSTOWN, N.Y. (AP) — State parks officials say a 25-year-old man has died after falling about 100 feet while rock climbing without protective ropes.

The accident happened around 6 p.m. Thursday near Breakneck Ridge in the Hudson Highlands State Park Preserve in Putnam County. ...

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — A New York state lawmaker who emigrated from Greece and worked to revitalize struggling parts of the Hudson Valley has died.

Democratic Assemblyman Frank Skartados (skar-TAY’-dohs) died early Sunday after a battle with pancreatic cancer. The 62-year-old was first ...

POUGHKEEPSIE, N.Y. (AP) — Marist College in New York is hosting a speakers’ series focused on the turbulent year 1968.

The Marist Institute for Public Opinion kicks off the series Thursday evening with a talk by Washington Post columnist E.J Dionne, Jr. The talks will tie in with a course ...

POUGHKEEPSIE, N.Y. (AP) — Marist College has fired men’s basketball coach Mike Maker and his assistants.

Marist director of athletics Tim Murray announced the changes on Monday and said a national search for a new head coach would begin immediately.

In four seasons under Maker, ...

POUGHKEEPSIE, N.Y. (AP) — The Poughkeepsie City School District says all schools are closed due to a threatened shooting at its high school.

The superintendent says in a message posted on the district’s website that schools are closed Wednesday “out of an abundance of caution.”

The ...

POUGHKEEPSIE, N.Y. (AP) — Ryan Funk sank six 3-pointers and finished with a career-high 24 points to lead Marist past Saint Peter’s 69-51 Saturday night.

Funk was 7 for 11 from the field, missing just three shots from behind the arc, and got all four of his free throws. David Knudsen added ...

POUGHKEEPSIE, N.Y. (AP) — Dimencio Vaughn scored 28 points and grabbed a dozen rebounds as Rider staged an improbable comeback, roaring back from 21 points down in the final 10 minutes to post an 89-79 win over Marist Saturday to maintain a share of first place in the Metro Atlantic ...

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — An upstate New York doctor and his wife have agreed to pay $500,000 for submitting false claims to Medicare for unapproved chemotherapy drugs.

Dr. Vincent Koh and wife Milly, who works as office manager, pleaded guilty in November to violations of the False Claims ...

POUGHKEEPSIE, N.Y. (AP) — New York’s Marist College has revoked an honorary degree it awarded to former Fox News host Bill O’Reilly in 2001.

Marist’s trustees cited accusations of sexual misconduct and sexual harassment in a statement about O’Reilly

POUGHKEEPSIE, N.Y. (AP) — Deyshonee Much scored 21 points on 7-of-9 shooting from the 3-point line and Iona took control early and cruised to a 98-64 win over Marist on Sunday.

E.J. Crawford hit 4 of 7 treys and scored 18 points for the Gaels (15-9, 9-3 Mid-Atlantic Athletic Conference), ...

POUGHKEEPSIE, N.Y. (AP) — Takal Molson and Jermaine Crumpton posted double-doubles and Canisius used a late surge to take a 73-67 victory over Marist on Friday night.

Molson had 21 points and 10 rebounds and Crumpton 18 points and a career-high 16 boards for the Golden Griffins (14-9, 8-2 ...

POUGHKEEPSIE, N.Y. (AP) — Rich Kelly knocked down five three-pointers and Quinnipiac used a strong second half to achieve a season sweep of Marist, 85-77, and climb above .500 in Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference play on Thursday night.

The Bobcats now have won back-to-back games for the ...

POUGHKEEPSIE, N.Y. (AP) — Ryan Funk scored 10 of his 13 points in overtime and Marist made just enough free throws down the stretch to hold off Fairfield 95-89 on Saturday.

Funk opened the extra period with a 3-pointer to give the Red Foxes (4-13, 2-3 Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference) an ...

POUGHKEEPSIE, N.Y. (AP) — The record-cold temperatures late last week resulted in a New York state utility setting a record for natural gas use.

Central Hudson Gas & Electric Corp. said customers in the eight eastern New York counties it serves used a record amount of natural gas last ...