Hudson Valley Resident Among Dead in Military Plane Crash: Patch PM

Patch PM shares a few of the day’s must-read items from our regional network. The Patch community platform includes communities in the lower Hudson Valley, Long Island, New York City, New Jersey and Connecticut. Here are stories worth talking about tonight:

Man Tries To Extort Money From His Mom By Faking His Own Kidnapping: Cops. He told his mom he had been kidnapped and begged her to wire money to a Western Union account, Nassau police say.

Rockland Resident Among Dead in Military Plane Crash. A Marine, he was a 2008 graduate of Ramapo High School.

Cuomo Declares March 2017 Snowstorm Major Disaster. It may be too hot for us to think about snow, but the hardest-hit communities will be better off.

UPDATE: Cops Find Suspected Bear Mountain Bridge Jumper's Body. Video recorded him going off the bridge.

Drive-by Revenge Murder. The victim, 23, had shot the shooter back when the shooter was just 16.

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