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Steve Lieberman joined The Journal News as an editor in February 1984 and became a reporter during the spring of 1986. He has covered police, courts and legal issues for more than a decade, after reporting on county, town, village and state governments and general issues. He received more than a dozen state awards for writing and reporting. Born and raised in The Bronx, he has lived in Rockland since 1988.
E-mail Steve Lieberman at slieberm@lohud.com
Clarkstown Police will honor officers for their efforts – including life-saving and heroics – to serve the public during the past years. The annual ceremony will be held at 9:30 a.m. Sunday at Police Headquarters on Maple Avenue in New City. The ceremony comes a few hours before the 11 a.m. commemoration for police [...]
The anti-drinking and drug message while driving will be demonstrated for Fieldstone Secondary School 9th-graders with two mock car crashes on Tuesday at the West Ramapo Road campus.
The volunteer victims will be covered in red – for blood – and trapped inside a crushed car, requiring firefighters to cut open the vehicle. A medical helicopter [...]
Ten Haverstraw town and village police officers will be feted Friday on their retirements after decades of serving the public.
One officer in particular, Hector Soto, already has moved on in life to an elected councilman on the Haverstraw Town Board. Soto worked as a police officer for close to four decades and 36 years [...]
The repercussions continue from a Spring Valley gang attacking Nyack gang members as a result of a gang-related bandanna snatching at Nyack High School.
Five Nyack High School students face disciplinary action for violating the district's "Code of Conduct." All five face superintendent's hearings after being suspended from daily classes, district spokeswoman Gail Fleur said today. [...]
Orangetown Police Chief Kevin Nulty and Nyack schools Superintendent Valencia Douglas have met to discuss Wednesday's gang-related incident at the high school that percipitated the mini-riot and gang fight in downtown Nyack.
Nulty and Orangetown Detective Lt. James Brown described the meeting at Orangetown Police Headquarters as productive. They said Douglas was opened [...]
Rockland County has long been excluded from receiving federal anti-terrorism funding as part of the New York City-metropolitan area security net.
Sheriff James Kralik has raised the issue of Rockland being excluded from the Urban Area Securities Initiative since after Sept. 11, 2001. Several years ago, then Assemblyman Ryan Karben, D-Monsey, and Legislator Ellen Jaffee, [...]
The Rockland Sheriff's Department will received it's accreditation certificate from New York State this afternoon during a ceremony planned for the Rockland Legislature chambers in the County Office Building in New City.
Division of Criminal Justice Services Commissioner Denise O'Donnel is scheduled to be on hand to hand the certificate to Sheriff James Kralik. Other [...]
For the second time this month, the U.S. Attorney's Office in Manhattan has sent kudos to a Rockland law enforcement agency.
This morning, the Rockland Computer Crimes Task Force got a pat on the computer for helping federal prosecutors bring charges against New York City Police Officer Trent Young. The task force is staffed with [...]
The Rockland Family Shelter is hosting a free public forum from 7 to 8:30 p.m. Tuesday that will offer parents tips on how they can keep their children safe while they surf the Internet. The forum is being held at the shelter's walk-in office at 9 Johnsons Lane in New City.
The shelter, which advocates for [...]
The Stony Point Police Department will hold a promotions ceremony on Wednesday while the Havestraw Police Department will host its second annual awards ceremony on Monday night.
The Stony Point Police Department promotions ceremony starts at 3 p.m. Wednesday in Town Hall, 74 E. Main St.
Ed Finn, an officer since 1986, will officially be made detective [...]
UPDATED March 12, 2008:
Ryan Karben responded to yesterday's blog. In an e-mail, Karben wrote that he never stated that "Spitzer should (or should not) resign."
He wrote that he'd simply responded to a reporter's "what-if" question.
"I was asked what would happen IF Spitzer chose to fight and responded he's a resilient person with lots of [...]
Michael Bongiorno was angrier than most about Gov. Eliot Spitzer being reportedly involved with prostitutes. And not too many people were happier than Bongiorno that Spitzer's political career could end.
Talking about Spitzer angers Bongiorno, who was Rockland's district attorney for 12 years until losing in November to Democrat Thomas Zugibe.
Bongiorno, a Republican, still blames Spitzer [...]
The system worked, though there were some bumps along the way.
A Haverstraw runaway, Kimberly Escobar, 16, was found and back with her family, as of Saturday. Her mother reported her missing on Jan. 2, after she left home on Dec. 24.
Escobar was found, police say, because a cabbie recognized her face from missing posters [...]
East Ramapo Schools Superintendent Mitchell Schwartz not only introduced Assemblywoman Ellen Jaffee today as a great supporter of the school district, but urged students to vote for her.
Schwartz and Jaffee were among those attending a forum with about 35 Spring Valley and Ramapo high school students at the administration offices on South Madison Avenue [...]
