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The driver involved in the shooting death of 23-year-old Yonkers resident and Oakland Athletics baseball prospect Michael Nolan was sentenced in Westchester County Court on Wednesday. On Wednesday, Mount Vernon resident Garth O'Neil was sentenced to five years in prison after pleading guilty to a felony charge of second-degree criminal possession of a weapon in relation to the shooting that left Nolan with a bullet in his head outside of a Burger King on Central Park Avenue.
It is sentencing day for the fourth and final man who pleaded guilty in connection to the drive-by shooting death of a Major League Baseball prospect from Yonkers. Garth O'Neil Cole admitted he was the driver in the getaway car in the shooting death of Michael Nolan, 23, outside the Burger King on Central Avenue in September 2015.
... is too late to stop a gun show planned on Jan. 21-22 at the Westchester County Center. Legislator Ken Jenkins, D-Yonkers, the original sponsor of the bill, was joined by his Democratic colleagues in the passage of this measure which was first ...
In a scathing statement, Democratic Assemblyman Gary Pretlow said Gov. Andrew Cuomo is using "bribery" tactics in order to pass his agenda in exchange for lawmaker pay raises, according to the New York Post. Pretlow, who represents the districts of Mount Vernon and Yonkers, told the Post that the governor has said he will approve pay raises if lawmakers agree with his ethics reform or approve Uber in upstate New York, among other items, reported the Post.
... d drugs or alcohol are not believed to have factored into the crash. The investigation into Tuesday's fiery wreck in Yonkers remains under investigation. Keep following Daily Voice for updates as they become available.
... of the regions. Westchester County projects received a total of $12.5 million, including a $2 million grant for the Yonkers Sports Event Center to be built by the Armory Foundation, which will add 137,000-square-feet of recreational space downtown. ...
Harry was born on October 1, 1921 in Yonkers to Dimitri and Anna Welgos Patz and was raised and educated in Yonkers, graduating from Yonkers High School in 1939. He joined the U.S. Army on July 31st, 1942 and served 38 months, including 31 months in the southwest Pacific Theatre of Operations, mostly with the 91st Chemical Mortar Company, involved in the invasions of Kwajalein in the Marshall Islands and Leyte in the Philippine Islands.
... a survivor after a loved one's passing. After marrying in Italy, they settled in Mount Vernon before moving to Yonkers and then to their son's home in Stormville. Freddy came to New York speaking only Italian. He spent 35 years as a paint foreman at ...
... lounge. Oasis can no longer do this because the county has been making them fill up the beds with 10 people from Yonkers, who in the current craziness there are being vanned here nightly. They are also being forced finally to put more Oasis clients ...
A 21-year-old man was arrested Friday and arraigned Saturday in connection with a homicide that occurred in Yonkers on Oct. 18, Yonkers police said. Donte Pace of Mount Vernon was arraigned in Yonkers Criminal Court for first-degree manslaughter and was remanded to the Westchester County Jail without bail.
The data, pulled from a federal report, shows that Mount Vernon, Yonkers and Peekskill have students who are chronically absent, said lohud.com. Mount Vernon reported an absenteeism rate of 33.3 percent, Yonkers was 24.9 percent and Peekskill reported 30 percent, according to data from the U.S. Department of Education Office of Civil Rights that was examined by the Westchester Children's Association, added lohud.com.
A Yonkers man was sentenced Thursday to more than 22 years in federal prison for his role in kidnapping and forcing into prostitution a 19-year-old Mount Vernon woman, according to the U.S. Attorney's Office. Clydedoro Graham, 28, was convicted in November 2015 of kidnapping, conspiring to engage in sex trafficking and attempting to engage in sex trafficking.
Three of the four men that pleaded guilty for their roles in the shooting death of 23-year-old Yonkers resident and Oakland Athletics baseball prospect Michael Nolan are scheduled to be sentenced in Westchester County Court on Wednesday. On Wednesday, Bronx natives Nashaun Hunter, 18, Tejmitra Singh, 23 and Darren Dawson, 19, are due back in court on Wednesday, after pleading guilty to violent felony charges in relation to the shooting that left Nolan with a bullet in his head outside of a Burger King on Central Park Avenue.
Mount Vernon native DMX was back in Westchester recently to thank the Yonkers police officers who helped save his life at a local hotel parking lot earlier this year. In February, the rapper was rushed to the hospital after first responders were alerted of a man who had collapsed, wasn't breathing and was unresponsive in the parking lot of the Ramada Inn in Yonkers.
The basketball team and the Mount Vernon community put up fences and put down mulch to give the Westchester School for Special Needs Kids a brand new playground. Organizer Elijah Brown was responsible for everything from ensuring the right amount of mulch to getting enough volunteers to get the work done in just a few hours.
... 15-month-old girl named Samia who was found dead in a Mount Vernon apartment on Friday, Aug. 5. 2016. (Credit: CBS2) YONKERS, N.Y. (CBSNewYork) - A Mount Vernon was indicted Thursday in the violent death of her 1-year-old daughter this past summer. ...
... benefit all county residents -- not just those living or working in White Plains, New Rochelle, Mount Vernon and Yonkers. "Although I am excited with this new initiative, I'm extremely disappointed that Greenburgh was not included in the list of ...
... benefit all county residents -- not just those living or working in White Plains, New Rochelle, Mount Vernon and Yonkers. "Although I am excited with this new initiative, I'm extremely disappointed that Greenburgh was not included in the list of ...
The Westchester County Association announced Thursday that Westchester's four largest cities will be signing a smart city initiative for technology. Yonkers, White Plains, Mount Vernon and New Rochelle will receive Gigabit Broadband, which will allow the cities to share technology and bring faster internet speed to every home, business, health care and educational organization in the next three to five years.
The unprecedented $750 million plan to launch an ultra-fast internet service in Westchester County's four largest cities was unveiled Thursday as one of the most ambitious infrastructure projects since opening the Tappan Zee Bridge and Metro-North ra New York cities pin economic growth on $750M gigabit internet plan The unprecedented $750 million plan to launch an ultra-fast internet service in Westchester County's four largest cities was unveiled Thursday as one of the most ambitious infrastructure projects since opening the Tappan Zee Bridge and Metro-North ra Check out this story on USATODAY.com: http://usat.ly/2dP6i0N Yonkers mayor Mike Spano speaks about the joint initiative to pursue gigabit broadband with New Rochelle mayor Noam Bramson, left, Bill Mooney, CEO of the Westchester County Association, White Plains mayor Tom Roach and Mount Vernon mayor Richard Thomas, Oct. 6, 2016 in ... (more)
A Mount Vernon woman has been sentenced to 25 years in prison after being found guilty of running down her "rival" in Yonkers with her car and fleeing the scene. On Tuesday, acting Westchester County District Attorney James McCarty announced that Carla Scott, 36, has been sentenced to 25 years in prison after being found guilty of felony charges o manslaughter and leaving the scene of an accident earlier this year.
... County Courthouse. She was convicted in July of second-degree manslaughter in the 2015 death of Glynis Pinto, of Yonkers. During the trial, Scott's attorney admitted the Mount Vernon woman was behind the wheel of the Mercedes-Benz while Pinto clung ...
... positioning Mount Vernon West as a concentrated investment area, strengthening the Mount Vernon Avenue gateway into Yonkers and exploring high-density options through re-zoning and the assembly of vacant buildings and underutilized sites.
More than two dozen people were indicted Friday for their alleged roles in an international drug ring that officials say stretched from Mexico to the Hudson Valley and beyond. Argenis Gullon, of Mount Vernon, and Franciso Reyes and Edwin Sierra, both of Yonkers, were arrested in connection to the drug ring.
... to all 650 members of the Construction Industry Council (CIC) of Westchester and Hudson Valley Inc. of Tarrytown. Yonkers Contracting Co., which helped build the World Trade Center in the 1970s, donated 100 trucks to the rescue effort, while Tilcon ...