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Detectives from the Yonkers Police Department nabbed a local man wanted for trying to kill the same man twice, according to the Yonkers Poice Department. James McNair, 23, of Yonkers was arrested Tuesday following a lengthy investigation by detectives that began following the first shooting and attempted murder of a 29-year-old Yonkers man, on Sunday, Jan. 14 around 1:42 p.m. on Warburton Avenue, said Yonkers Police Spokesman Dean Politopoulos.
A registered "sexually violent" offender convicted of sexually abusing a 2-year-old girl has reported a move in Westchester County. The New York State Division of Criminal Justice Services issued an alert this week to Westchester residents regarding the residency of 41-year-old Horatio Joss, who has moved from to an apartment on Highland Place in Yonkers.
... the Staten Island Railway. Kawasaki later announced that the cars will be built and tested at their facilities in Yonkers and Nebraska. Delivery is expected by 2020. The initial contact will include the delivery of 535 cars for the MTA, with a ...
New York's Metropolitan Transportation Authority on Wednesday approved a $1.4 billion deal to buy 535 train cars for its subway system from a subsidiary of Kawasaki Heavy Industries Ltd. The contract with MTA New York City Transit includes options for up to 1,077 additional cars, for 1,612 cars total, at a cost of $3.7 billion, pending approval by the board of directors. Kawasaki Rail Car Inc., based in Yonkers, New York, will supply cutting-edge, next-generation R211 subway cars with entrances 8 inches wider than existing cars.
It's time New York state finally changed its antiquated voting rules and procedures that are perpetuating the state's low voter turnout, Democratic lawmakers in the Legislature said Tuesday as they announced yet another election reform package. New York ranks among the bottom in terms of voter turnout, a situation Senate Democratic Minority Leader Andrea Stewart-Cousins, of Yonkers, called "extremely embarrassing" during a news conference detailing some of the 13 voting rights bills aimed at making it easier for New Yorkers to cast ballots.
Toys "R" Us plans to close 180 stores as part of the company's attempt to emerge from Chapter 11 bankruptcy. The Wayne, New Jersey-based company is shuttering 15 stores in New York, including its Union Square Babies "R" Us, a store in Yonkers, and another location in College Point, Queens, CNBC reported.
In a lawsuit seemingly ripped from the script of "Caddyshack" a Manhattan man having a bad day on the links in Westchester threw his club at the ninth hole - and hit another golfer in the head. Now Mary Touhey, 55, a Yonkers gym teacher, is suing Daniel J. Schapiro, 33, over the alleged September 2017 incident at Dunwoodie Golf Course that left her with a broken nose.
A woman whose face took the brunt of a golfer's frustration when his airborne club hit her is so teed off she sued. Mary Touhey says in her suit filed Tuesday in Manhattan Supreme Court that she was near the ninth hole at Dunwoodie Golf Course in Yonkers on Sept.
... shut down for a day following the outbreak. A class action suit was filed by a Rochester-based law firm on behalf of Yonkers resident Crystal Lopez and the thousands of people who were required to obtain a blood test and receive a vaccination for ...
... no one gets two Oscar nominations without some story of a come-up behind it. Blige blossomed out of the projects in Yonkers, New York to earn nine Grammy awards as an absolute R&B legend. But little has been said of her acting career in its early ...
... has served as principal at Trinity since 2012 and is a longtime resident of Mahopac. He has previously taught in Yonkers and served in administrative positions in Harrison, Tuckahoe, Lakeland and in New Rochelle. DiCarlo also served for six years on ...
The New York State Division of Criminal Justice Services issued an alert this week to Westchester residents regarding the residency of 51-year-old Christopher Lyons, who has moved to an apartment on South Broadway in Yonkers. The Division of Criminal Justice Services has assigned Lyons as a level three threat, which means he is a "high-risk repeat offender and possible threat to public safety."
... assigned Rhony as a level two threat, which means he is at "moderate risk of a repeat offense." Sanchez, a former Yonkers resident, served as a swimming instructor at the JCC for more than a decade. According to reports, an investigative team from ...
... do it. "When Revel first opened, smoking was banned throughout, which made us stay away," said Michelle Bronski, of Yonkers, New York. And even when the smoking ban was dropped, she was uncomfortable with what she termed overzealous security in the ...
The New York State Public Safety Department is asking for the public's help in locating a missing 17-year-old Hudson Valley girl. Danjales Oakman went missing from Yonkers on Sunday, Jan. 14 and may be in the local area or in the vicinity of Albany.
... is looking hire the Japanese firm, Kawasaki, to build these cars, and the manufacturer will do so at its facility in Yonkers, New York, and Lincoln, Nebraska, if it is officially awarded the contract. These 1,612 new train cars will become available ...
... is key. "we cannot save Westchester if we don't save Mount Vernon; we cannot save Westchester if we don't stand by Yonkers," he said. Optimism: Although the county is currently facing many challenges, Latimer is confident that the County has the ...
... do it. "When Revel first opened, smoking was banned throughout, which made us stay away," said Michelle Bronski, of Yonkers, New York. And even when the smoking ban was dropped, she was uncomfortable with what she termed overzealous security in the ...
... shouldn't be used to pay for the actions of a bad actors," said Senate Democratic leader Andrea Stewart-Cousins (D-Yonkers). Senate Deputy Majority Leader John DeFrancisco (R-Syracuse) said he had "no concept" that that amount of state money was ...
... They'll just have to keep hating; it is what they do best, after all. We will continue to carriage on. Eva Hughes Yonkers: I have worked with Corey Romanowski over the past several years in Washington Heights ("36 years of EMS heroism," Jan. 14). ...
New Rochelle, New York was arraigned on a Grand Jury indictment and charged with Attempted Aggravated Murder in connection with the September 25th incident that resulted in a Yonkers police officer being shot in the jaw. On September 25, 2017, two police officers responded to reports of a suspicious parked car at Marshall Road and Ridge Drive in the Park Hill section of Yonkers.
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... to those living in the five boroughs of New York City, or to school districts in Buffalo, Rochester, Syracuse or Yonkers. New York City has its own caps: First, property taxes cannot increase by more than 6 percent in any single year. Second, ...
... was born on Jan. 11, 1971, in the Bronx, a borough of New York City, and was raised in Richmond Hill, Georgia, and Yonkers, New York. Blige was discovered when an amateur recording of Anita Baker's "Caught Up In The Rapture" that Blige made in a ...