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The city of Yonkers will pay $20,000 to settle a lawsuit brought by a man who accused police of falsely arresting and strip searching him. Kevin King filed the suit against the Yonkers police department in 2014.
A Mount Vernon man is heading to state prison after pleading guilty to drinking and driving his car off of the Cross County Parkway in Yonkers, taking the life of his passenger. On Thursday, acting Westchester County District Attorney James McCarty announced that Hasani Ewan, 39, was sentenced to between one and three years in prison after being charged on a seven count indictment earlier this year.
Yonkers native and Republican David Tubiolo defeated Democratic Christine Peters Tuesday in a special election for the vacant seat in the Westchester County Legislature's District 14, which represents parts of Yonkers and Mount Vernon. Tubiolo takes over for fellow Republican Bernice Spreckman, who resigned in June.
... While acting Fire Commissioner Ernie Richardson called the post "out of character" for Lanier, officials with the Yonkers PBA and Westchester Blacks in Law Enforcement expressed anger over the incident, according to News 12, which reported that ...
... in 67 life sentences. Eight New Yorkers made the list, according to the New York Daily News. Terrence Upshaw of Yonkers, convicted in 1998 on cocaine-dealing charges, had been serving a life sentence but now is expected to be released Aug. 3, 2017, ...
There's a Special Election on Tuesday August 9th to elect the Westchester County Board of Legislator for the 14th District, representing South East Yonkers and Mount Vernon. This election can help turn the Westchester legislature back into a pro-woman, pro-family, pro-safe-access-to-women's-healthcare county government.
... Die for freedom." The post has since been removed. The post has outraged some in the Hudson Valley, including from Yonkers PBA President Keith Olsen and Damon Jones, the head of Westchester Blacks in Law Enforcement. Mount Vernon Mayor Richard ...
Mount Vernon resident Garth O'Neil Cole was the last of four suspects to plead guilty for their role in the shooting death of Yonkers pro baseball prospect Michael Nolan. Bronx natives Nashaun Hunter, Darren Dawson and Tejmitra Singh and Mount Vernon resident Garth O'Neil Cole pleaded guilty for their roles in the hit-and run shooting of Yonkers native Michael Nolan.
Garth O'Neil Cole, 22, from Mount Vernon, pleaded guilty to criminally negligent homicide today in Westchester County Court. Cole was the driver in the drive-by shooting death of Michael Nolan outside of the Burger King on Central Avenue in Sept.
Mount Vernon resident Garth O'Neil Cole was the last of four suspects to plead guilty for their role in the shooting death of Yonkers pro baseball prospect Michael Nolan. Bronx natives Nashaun Hunter, Darren Dawson and Tejmitra Singh and Mount Vernon resident Garth O'Neil Cole pleaded guilty for their roles in the hit-and run shooting of Yonkers native Michael Nolan.
A special election will be held next week to fill the vacant District 14 seat of the Westchester County Board of Legislators. The seat was vacated by Legislator Bernice Spreckman, who retired in June for health reasons after years of serving her Yonkers constituents.
The teenager who shot Michael Nolan said that he only wanted to scare Nolan's group and that the Yonkers baseball prospect "didn't deserve to die." Mike Nolan shooting: Guilty pleas, new details paint clearer account The teenager who shot Michael Nolan said that he only wanted to scare Nolan's group and that the Yonkers baseball prospect "didn't deserve to die."
... The Mount Vernon resident was seen on surveillance video driving her car while Pinto clung to its hood. Pinto, of Yonkers, died after the car ran her over. "She did everything she could for me, everything possible. That's the best way I can look at ...
A Mount Vernon woman is facing up to 25 years in prison after being found guilty of running down her "rival" in Yonkers with her car and fleeing the scene. On Monday, acting Westchester County District Attorney James McCarty announced that Carla Scott, 36, had been found guilty of felony counts of manslaughter and leaving the scene of an accident after striking her victim last year when she was standing in front of her Mercedes.
A Mount Vernon woman is facing up to 25 years in prison after being found guilty of running down her "rival" in Yonkers with her car and fleeing the scene. On Monday, acting Westchester County District Attorney James McCarty announced that Carla Scott, 36, had been found guilty of felony counts of manslaughter and leaving the scene of an accident after striking her victim last year when she was standing in front of her Mercedes.
Jury deliberations have resume in the trial of a Mount Vernon woman accused of mowing down another woman with a car. Carla Scott is on trial after being charged with second-degree manslaughter in the 2015 death of Glynis Pinto, of Yonkers.
Bronx natives Nashaun Hunter, Darren Dawson and Tejmitra Singh and Mount Vernon resident Garth O'Neil Cole have been charged in connection with the fatal shooting of Michael Nolan. YONKERS, N.Y. -- Michael Nolan's life may have come to a tragic and early end, but his memory lived on Saturday as scores of people turned out to honor him, according to News 12. Nolan, a 23-year-old baseball prospect drafted in 2014 by the Oakland Athletics, died on Oct. 9, 2015 -- less than a month after suffering serious injuries in a drive-by shooting outside a Burger King on Central Park Avenue in Yonkers.
... sedan, when the car suddenly lunges forward and knocks the mother of five children up onto the car. The 37-year-old Yonkers woman clings to the hood as the car speeds through the intersection of Warburton Avenue and Babcock Place in Yonkers. Pinto ...
... sedan, when the car suddenly lunges forward and knocks the mother of five children up onto the car. The 37-year-old Yonkers woman clings to the hood as the car speeds through the intersection of Warburton Avenue and Babcock Place in Yonkers. Pinto ...
Bronxville borders three higher-crime communities, with Yonkers to the west, Mount Vernon to the south, and New Rochelle to the east. Find out how trends and technology are allowing security dealers to generate these new revenue streams as well as more effectively manage their businesses.
... Foundation with additional support from the county. The program is available at senior sites in White Plains, Yonkers, New Rochelle, Mount Vernon and Mount Pleasant. A recent $150,000 grant from the AARP Foundation has resulted in two additional ...
Numerous patrol units responded to 31 School St. to a report of a male who had been shot at approximately 3 a.m., according to officials. Upon arrival, officers observed a large group of people in the street, and subsequently located a 21-year-old man from Yonkers who had sustained a gunshot wound to the abdomen, police report.
... r. A witness testified Wednesday that Pinto and four other women who had been drinking met up with Scott in downtown Yonkers for a fight. Pinto was dating Scott's ex-boyfriend, Kenneth Hill.
A jury will decide the fate of a Mount Vernon woman accused of running down and killing a Yonkers woman with her car in 2015, according to News 12 Westchester. Glynis Pinto, 37, spent the last minutes of her life hanging to the hood of Carla Scott's Mercedes, according to multiple media reports.
... Carla Scott at County Court in White Plains. She is accused of mowing down and killing 37-year-old Glynis Pinto in Yonkers. The 12-member jury will soon see video captured last April of Pinto clinging to the hood of a car. On Monday, the prosecution ...