Ulster legislator seen on video trying to avoid speeding ticket

KINGSTON – The video of an Ulster County legislator from Kingston begging to get out of a speeding ticket is turning up on the Internet.
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Power outages down to about 1,000 in region

... be two Orange and Rockland Utilities customers in Deerpark, whose estimated repair time is 7 a.m. Wednesday. Ulster County continues to be the one suffering the most, with 901 of 1,076 outages as of just after noon. Among the larger outages there, ...
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This Democratic Lawmaker's Epic Meltdown Over a Speeding Ticket Will Make Your Day [Video]

A police camera captured a Democratic county lawmaker bizarrely screaming, begging, invoking for special privileges, saying she's broke, claiming to suffer from post-traumatic stress disorder and panting like she's about to keel over while she received a routine speeding ticket for driving 13 miles per hour over the posted speed limit. The legislator in the disturbing dash-cam video is Jennifer Schwartz Berky, a member of the Ulster County Legislature in Ulster County, New York.
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Power still out for more than 2,000 in region

Central Hudson says 1,303 of its Ulster County customers are without power just before 7 a.m. And for some of those customers, restoration times are still pending, including 400 in Rochester, the single largest remaining outage.
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Woman appears to have meltdown after being pulled over

... she was allegedly driving at 43mph in a 30mph zone. But when Short requested the usual papers from Berky, the Ulster County Legislator became hysterical and started hyperventilating, begging to not receive a ticket. An upstate New York traffic cop ...
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Sheriffs: At N.Y jails private medical companies improve services

... hearing on health care in New York correctional facilities, Sheriff Jim Hanstein, administrator of the Ulster County Jail, said medical services at the Kingston facility improved after switching from a local health care provider to Correctional ...
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Woman charged with illegally collecting food stamp benefits

... illegally collected $3,134 in food stamp benefits, officials said. Vanessa Bobo was charged Thursday by the Ulster County Department of Social Services Special Investigations Unit under the county's "Zero Tolerance" program. She failed to accurately ...
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