From ‘I Hated His Guts’ To Saving His Life: Port Washington Woman Gives Ex-Teacher Her Kidney
A Long Island woman donated a kidney to an unlikely beneficiary — her old middle school English teacher in Massachusetts, who she hated.
Montana Miller, 55, of Port Washington, learned about the plight of Mitch Grosky, 74, through social media and decided to do something, the Boston Globe reported Tuesday, May 19.
“When I was ten years old I hated his guts; now I'm giving him mine!?” Miller wrote on Facebook in April.
The two first crossed paths at The Bromfield School in Harvard, MA in the 1980s, where Miller found Grosky’s fifth-grade English class boring and later told the Globe, “I abs…
20-Year-Old From Greenville Killed In Drunken Hit-And-Run, Teen Driver Arrested: Police
A New York college student who had just completed her sophomore year was killed in a hit-and-run DUI car crash, authorities said.
Emily Mae Smith, 20, of Greenville, was walking near SUNY Potsdam’s campus around 3:30 a.m. Saturday, May 16, when an SUV driver struck her, the Potsdam Police Department said.
Smith, who starred on the school’s women’s basketball team, was rushed to Canton Potsdam Hospital, where she was pronounced dead, cops said.
Investigators determined the vehicle that struck Smith was an older model black Cadillac Escalade with front-end damage, police said. They located t…
0.17 BAC Driver Wrecked On NY Thruway In Chatham, Hospitalized Passenger: Police
A driver with a 0.17 blood-alcohol content smashed his car on the New York State Thruway, leaving a passenger with serious injuries, police said Tuesday, May 19.
Nicholas R. Mottsey, 34, was behind the wheel of a 2004 Toyota traveling eastbound on I-90 when it left the road near mile marker 14.5 in Chatham around 12:30 a.m. on Oct. 29, 2025, New York State Police said.
The car struck a rock embankment, smashing the front fender, shattering the windshield, and damaging several sections of the vehicle, according to state police. Mottsey, of Accord, and a 33-year-old Kingston woman riding in t…
‘Career Narcotics Trafficker’ Pleads Guilty After Feds Find Coke, Fentanyl In Malta: DA
A New York man labeled a “career drug dealer” pleaded guilty to a four-count drug indictment just before going to trial, authorities announced Monday, May 18.
Kenny Seales, 49, faces eight years behind bars as part of his plea deal, the Saratoga County District Attorney’s office said.
Seales, of Jamaica, Queens, was busted in an Aug. 29, 2025, traffic stop on I-87 through Malta, where cops found nearly eight ounces of cocaine and just under one-half ounce of fentanyl in his car, prosecutors said.
He was charged with four counts of drug possession, and his trial was set to start late last w…
Fake Bomb Planted At Colonie Park, Notebook Found And Suspect Arrested: Police
A New York man planted a fake bomb at a park in Albany County near a children’s book exchange, police said.
Brandon Arsenault, 26, placed a water bottle containing a liquid, a mason jar top with a battery terminal, a battery, and red and green wires inside the book exchange at Colonie Mohawk River Park on Saturday, May 16, the Colonie Police Department said.
A bystander who spotted Arsenault placing the device and fleeing the scene called the cops, who arrived to investigate the situation, authorities said.
The New York State Police bomb disposal unit responded “and determined the device t…
