Jeff Lewis

Streaming services such as Netflix, Hulu, Amazon Prime, Disney+ and for now, Paramount+, are streaming services that people use to watch content on their TVs and iPads and cell phones. But now it seems a fast-food restaurant chain wants in. Entertainment industry publication, Deadline, reported recently that Chick-Fil-A, which is building a new restaurant in Nanuet, plans to launch its own streaming service with original, “family-friendly” content, and licensed material. WRCR market analyst Connor Mahoney of Mahoney Asset Management in Chestnut Ridge says other companies have hatched wackier ideas that worked… 

If you don’t want to watch chicken-themed family-friendly programming and instead prefer to eat chicken on the go, you’ll be able to soon do that in Nanuet, Clarkstown supervisor George Hoehmann says, possibly next summer…

The new Chick-Fil-A is being built off Route 59, east of Middletown Road.

A Yonkers man following a multi-vehicle crash Wednesday night in Spring Valley that left nine people injured including two police officers. That’s according to News 12. 54-year-old Nelson Torres was reportedly spotted by police in his car on westbound Route 59 between New Clarkstown Road and Dutch Lane just before 7pm. The engine was running, and the car was in “Drive,” but he was not responsive. When police tried to break a window to get to him, he reportedly fled, causing the crash and intentionally ramming his car into police cruisers that had been set up to stop him. Torres was taken to Montefiore Nyack Hospital for medical and psychological checks. He was charged with reckless endangerment, unlawful fleeing, reckless driving, and several other charges.

Pine Bush Woman Pleads Guilty to Trying to Hire Hitman
An Orange County woman got 9 1/2 years behind bars after pleading guilty to trying to hire a hitman to kill her brother-in-law. U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York, Damian Williams, says 40 year-old Reshma Massarone of Pine Bush offered $10,000 to an undercover investigator she thought was a hitman. Williams says Massarone chatted with the undercover investigator on social media, she suggested using rat poison, and if he couldn’t do it, she would find someone else who would. The motive behind Massarone’s actions are unclear and remain under investigation.

Labor Day weekend is one of the busiest and deadliest holiday travel times due to alcohol-impaired-driving crashes. That’s according to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, which is running their annual “Drive Sober or Get Pulled Over” public awareness campaign. Rockland County Sheriff Lou Falco says it’s a safe bet that there will be added patrols watching for drunk and drugged drivers on the area roadways…

Recent NHTSA data shows that alcohol-related traffic fatalities made up 32% of all traffic deaths in 2022. That year there were 13,524 fatalities, that’s one every 39 minutes.