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If fire services in 10 southern Westchester departments were consolidated, residents from Pelham Manor to Eastchester would see better, more efficient fire protection services and a resulting $47 million savings in their fire insurance premiums, according to a report by Pace University's Edwin G. Michaelian Institute for Public Policy and ...

YONKERS - Thirty-five families were displaced and 17 firefighters were slightly injured early yesterday after an electrical malfunction in a therapeutic chair ignited a smoky fire on the second floor of a six-story Bronx River Road cooperative apartment.

GREENBURGH The Town of Greenburgh will study the feasibility of consolidating the three paid fire districts in the town Fairview, Greenville and Hartsdale.

Homeowners and businesses in 10 Westchester communities could save an estimated $47 million a year in fire insurance premiums if their fire districts consolidated, according to a study being released today by Pace University's Edwin G. Michaelian Institute for Public Policy and Management.

The combined payroll for the three fire districts in Greenburgh - Fairview, Greenville, and Hartsdale - was $14.2 million in 2008.

The town has released a financial analysis that says fire protection in unincorporated areas costs significantly more than in other Westchester County communities.

A Little Mermaid statue that has stood in a park in a Michigan city since 1994 may be removed because of a claim it's an illegal replica of the famous original in Denmark.

MOUNT VERNON - A suspicious fire started in a vacant house, spread to a neighboring house and left eight young adults homeless yesterday.

On the strength of a DNA match, state police have charged a 43-year-old Orange County probationer in the unsolved 19-year-old homicide of a Huguenot woman.

As the St Patrick's festivities get under way families and friends of Kerry natives take the opportunity to send each other best wishes.

Firefighters from three states battled a house fire on River Road Tuesday. Officials said a passer-by reported the fire at 174 River Road at about 1:15 p.m. Firefighters from Montague, Sandyston, Port Jervis, ...

State police have ticketed an upstate New York man for driving more than twice the 65-mph speed limit on an interstate highway.

What's the difference between Ticketmaster, TicketsNow and Tickets.com? Only one of them sells tickets at face value for events at Times Union Center.

Jerry Gleeson YONKERS - Precision Valve Corp. said yesterday that it would shutter its manufacturing plant and consolidate at another site it owns in South Carolina by Memorial Day.

Emergency responders were kept busy last night as several fires broke out across the region.

Gerald Jones was asleep in his mother's home at 408 S. First Ave. yesterday morning when he heard her yell there was a fire.

State police charged a Walden man with drunken driving Wednesday night after a rollover crash on Interstate 84 that injured four people.

East Carolina University plans to put out a statement later this afternoon regarding the future plans of head coach Skip Holtz, who interviewed for the head coach vacancy at Syracuse.

A couple of North Carolina television stations caught up with East Carolina head coach Skip Holtz as he attended a banquet in Charlotte tonight.

Most voters know that the first Tuesday of November is Election Day, but the second Tuesday of December? That's today, and it's an election day, too, if not a widely known one.