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Priest recorded having group sex on altar of Pearl River church, police say; 3 arrested The lights inside Saints Peter and Paul Roman Catholic Church in Pearl River were on later than usual on Sept. 30, so a passerby stopped to take a closer look.Peering inside, the onlooker saw the small parish's pastor half-naked having sex with two women on the altar, according to court documents. The women were dressed in corsets and high-heeled boots. There were sex toys and stage lighting. And a mobile phone was mounted on a tripod, recording it all.  The Rev. Travis Clark. (Photo from...

Paula Bohovesky, aspiring actress and high school honor student. New York state lawmakers are calling on Gov. Andrew Cuomo to block the release of a man convicted in the 1980 murder of a 16-year-old girl in a crime so depraved it stunned law enforcement and shook a close-knit community to its core. Paula Bohovesky, an aspiring actress and high school honor student, was beaten, sexually assaulted and stabbed to death as she walked home from a local library in the quiet hamlet of Pearl River, N.Y., a village 40 miles north of New York City. A jury convicted Richard LaBarbera...

An effort to avoid paying a $7.41 bill at a Waffle House in tiny Pearl River has led to the arrest of two out-of-state men and the discovery of a sophisticated interstate identity theft scheme that is now being investigated by the U.S. Secret Service. The two suspects are accused of installing credit card skimming devices at gas pumps, which allowed them to steal credit card information from unwitting victims. The information was being used to create counterfeit credit cards that were used to make fraudulent purchases or sold to other individuals, according to the Pearl River Police Department. Investigators...

This is the moment workers connected the two sides of the world's longest sea bridge - seven years after building first began. The last steel box girder was installed for the crossing on Wednesday, which spans the estuary of the Pearl River connecting Hong Kong and China. The project, called Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macao Bridge is 14 miles long and also includes an underwater tunnel. Construction of the Y-shaped bridge began in 2009 at a cost of 100 billion yuan ($15billion). And when the bridge opens to traffic, it will shorten the distance between Hong Kong, Zhuhau and Macao. It will officially...

James Lavigne had been mayor of Pearl River, La. for 24 years. He lost the last election and called an emergency meeting Wednesday to say goodbye. ....“Facebook can kiss my ass, and you too and Channel 4 news,” Lavigne said as he got into his town-owned GMC Denali and drove away.

We are looking for a tour of Honey Island Swamp. We have brochures for two possibilities: Pearl River Eco-Tours (owner/operator Neil Benson) and Dr. Wagner's Honey Island Swamp Tours. They're pretty close pricewise. Do you prefer one strongly over the other? If so, why? Thanks.

Hong Kong braces for powerful typhoon, two feared dead in Taiwan Hong Kong braced for a direct hit from Typhoon Dujuan Tuesday as the storm barrelled towards the territory after battering Taiwan, leaving at least two feared dead and a trail of destruction. The Hong Kong Observatory raised the second highest storm warning -- a number nine signal -- at 8:10 pm (1210 GMT), after the number eight signal forced the closure of schools, shops, businesses and financial markets in the early afternoon. Strong winds that preceded the typhoon -- which was expected to be closest to the territory...