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Thruway wrong-way crash victim laid to rest

Family and friends paid their final respects to the Monsey woman who was killed Tuesday in a head-on, wrong-way crash on the New York State Thruway.

The crash happened just before 8:30 p.m. in the southbound lanes of I-87, just north of the Ramapo rest stop in Sloatsburg, State Police said. Alvin Lapides, 81, and his wife Madeline, 76, of Monsey, got on Interstate 87 by exit 14A or 14B in...

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