For employers, keeping employees healthy is key. A local wellness conference set for this week is geared toward creating a healthy working environment for employees.

A jury took 20 minutes to find there was no sexual discrimination when a former employee of the Dutchess County Board of Elections resigned in 2005.

PATTERSON - A former town office manager and typist who claims she was fired for refusing to cover up an extramarital affair between Supervisor Michael Griffin and his former secretary is seeking $5 million in a wrongful termination lawsuit.

CLAVERACK A Dutchess County man, who fled a Red Hook Police stop, was killed when his car rammed into a dump truck on Route 9H in the Town of Claverack, State Police at Livingston said.

A high-speed chase that started in Dutchess County Friday afternoon ended in Columbia County with the death of the driver.. According to a CBS 6 photographer on the scene, Red Hook Police attempted to stop a car in the town, but the driver took off.

Two Poughkeepsie men are due in city court Tuesday to face drug charges after authorities raided a restaurant on the 400 block of Main Street - the result of a three-month investigation into crack cocaine sales at the business.

An environmental group says it's buying nearly 200 acres of land to protect the views across the Hudson River from the Franklin D. Roosevelt National Historic Site.

The American Red Cross in Dutchess County will be closing the overnight shelter at John Jay High School today, Tuesday, at 1:30 p.m. Another shelter will open at 2 p.m.at the East Fishkill Fire District Fire Training Center lat 2502 Route 52 in Hopewell Junction.

Police in New York say a worker in a hospital emergency room stole credit cards from a dying plane crash victim.

Detective Kristian Flood wasn't yet 2 when Anthony Parinello was stabbed and paralyzed in a Bronx home invasion in 1980.

PAWLING A Carmel woman has been charged with DWI and the felony violation of Leandra's Law.

More than 50,000 homes and businesses in eastern New York are starting the work week without power after back-to-back storms dropped more than 2 feet of snow in some areas.

A Red Hook man has been charged with felony driving while intoxicated by the Dutchess County Sheriff's Office.

Chileans in the region expressed concern Saturday about family members in their native country after it struck by one of the most powerful earthquakes ever recorded.

CENTRAL HUDSON SAYS THEY HAVE RESTORED POWER TO MORE THAN 40 THOUSAND CUSTOMERS WHO LOST ELECTRIC FROM THE TUESDAY INTO WEDNESDAY STORM.

An estimated 150,000 Central Hudson Gas and Electric Corporation customers were without power as of 9 this morning.

Putnam County Executive Robert Bondi this morning has declared a state of emergency through 12 p.m. Saturday.

Hundreds of schools from Buffalo to Binghamton to New York City, including many here in Central New York are closed this morning and stretches of two highways are shut down because of the second storm to sock the region this week.

MORE THAN 49 THOUSAND CENTRAL HUDSON CUSTOMERS WERE STILL WITHOUT POWER AT 4 THIS MORNING, WITH ANOTHER BIG STORM ON THE WAY.

County leaders from the Hudson Valley are working to cut expenses in a difficult economy even as they deal with the cost of mandates and decreasing state aid.