Buchanan News

YONKERS: Detectives are awaiting autopsy results from the Westchester County Medical Examiner's Office to determine how a 50-year-old man whose body was found in the southwest part of the city died.

CORTLANDT - An early morning fire at medical laboratory instrument maker was extinguished without anyone's being injured, the fire department said.

A Stormville man who stopped his car to urinate on the side of a road - unaware that troopers were watching him - was among 10 motorists charged with driving while intoxicated in Westchester County since Friday, state police said Monday.

The controversial Indian Point nuclear power plant has earned a big high-five from a panel of nuclear industry experts.

BUCHANAN - More than one in 10 of the new emergency sirens for Indian Point failed to work properly during a quarterly test Wednesday morning, just as federal officials are deciding whether to allow the old system to be dismantled.

Spurred by recurring leaks of radioactive water from the nation's oldest nuclear power plant, federal regulators say they're looking for better ways to detect leaks from buried pipes at all 104 American nuclear power plants.

We need to re-elect Linda Puglisi for Cortlandt town supervisor on Primary Day, Sept.

New York City will track its hundreds of building inspectors with GPS technology to make sure they are actually doing the inspections they report, the Department of Buildings said Friday.

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A nuclear power plant in Westchester County is offline again because of a leak in an oil pipe.

The Indian Point nuclear power station in Buchanan, N.Y., 35 miles north of midtown New York City.

Federal regulators have given Indian Point its most significant approval so far in the nuclear plant's effort to continue creating electricity through 2035.

A nuclear reactor at the Indian Point Energy Center in Buchanan was automatically shut down Monday night due to an electrical disturbance.

YONKERS - A 27-year-old Buchanan man, Nahum La Cerna, is headed back to school after winning a major New York Lottery prize.

YONKERS - A 27-year-old Buchanan man, Nahum La Cerna, is headed back to school after winning a major New York Lottery prize.

BUCHANAN, N.Y. -- The owner of a nuclear power plant in the New York suburbs says one of its reactors has shut down automatically, probably because of a nearby lightning strike.Entergy Nuclear Northeast says there was no release of radioactivity, no damage to the plant equipment and no .

Built in 2000, this Westchester Colonial already has "upgrades galore" -- from the "gleaming" hardwood floors to the granite-countered, eat-in kitchen to the "fabulous" three-season room overlooking the in-ground, heated pool.

Buchanan-Verplanck: Jared Neidhardt, a fifth-grade student at Buchanan-Verplanck Elementary School, wanted to help kids with cancer at Maria Fareri Children's Hospital in Valhalla.

A Canadian energy company is looking to turn an abandoned quarry in Verplanck, where a teen drowned last week, into a hydroelectric plant.

Indian Point nuclear power plant in Buchanan, N.Y., is said to be responsible for killing fish, eggs, larvae and plants.