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The death by barbell of disgraced UN official John Ashe could become a bigger obsession for conspiracy theorists than Vince Foster’s 1993 suicide. Ashe — who was facing trial for tax fraud — died Wednesday afternoon in his house in Westchester County. The UN said he’d had a heart attack. But the local Dobbs Ferry police said Thursday that his throat had been crushed, presumably by a barbell he dropped while pumping iron. Ashe was due in court Monday with his Chinese businessman co-defendant Ng Lap Seng, who is charged with smuggling $4.5 million into the US since 2013 and...

DOBBS FERRY, N.Y. A Westchester nanny has been arrested for delivering 14 pounds of marijuana while driving her employers' sport utility vehicle with their one-year-old son inside. Westchester County Police say 24-year-old Sanjay Rodrigues was arrested after police got a tip that the woman was going to deliver pot. Police say they staked out a Dobbs Ferry home about 8 a-m yesterday and saw Rodriques, who worked at that home, pick up a cardboard box from the front of the house. Later in the afternoon, police saw her place the boy in a child seat in the back of the...

ALBANY - Nearly 25 years after he was allegedly molested as a teenager by local defrocked priest Dozia Wilson, 38-year-old Joseph Woodward finally got the chance to tell his painful story of abuse to prosecutors and law enforcement officials in Massachusetts. "It was like having a 100-pound weight taken off my back to finally have officials interested in my situation and in carefully discerning the facts," said Woodward, befriended by Wilson when he was 14 in 1980 at St. Ann's Church in Fort Ann [NY]. The Suffolk County DA's interest in the case was prompted by a civil complaint lodged...