Mount Vernon News

The "Curb Your Enthusiasm" star who plays one of the most foulmouthed, sarcastic borderline personalities on TV isn't one herself.

Diddy was reported to have been stopped by the Los Angeles police department at gunpoint according to TMZ reports on Wednesday, May 15.

WHITE PLAINS A Mount Vernon man has been charged with two counts of felony criminally negligent homicide in an eight count indictment in connection with the deaths of two people on July 8, 2012.

Two Mount Vernon women were arrested early Sunday morning after they allegedly tried to rob a man with a sword, police said.

Nearly every day from spring to fall, Leroy Bailey and six of his colleagues report to a job that is not for the fainthearted.

WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. Nearly 200 Westchester residents voted Mount Vernon the tastiest water in the county during an annual blind taste test of the county's water suppliers Friday.

Family members of Malcolm Shabazz, the grandson of slain civil rights leader Malcolm X, plan to head to Mexico, where he was killed Thursday during a reported robbery, a Shabazz family spiritual adviser told The Journal News Friday.

Police say a Mount Vernon man was arrested in Tuckahoe for driving drunk in the Village.

The top lot of the sale was Childe Hassam's 1920 oil, The East Hampton Elms in May .

State Sen. Ruth Hassell-Thompson speaks during a gathering of city officials and residents at City Hall in Mount Vernon to mourn the victims of the Sandy Hook Elementary mass shooting.

This photo shows the Mount Vernon apartment of Irema Johnson, 31, who is charged with three counts of animal cruelty after allegedly leaving two pit bull puppies and a kitten to starve to death.

Thanks to Junior League of Central Westchester Media Chair Christine Pasqueralle for the following: Communities often come together under difficult circumstances, working together toward a common goal.

Brad Durant, 42, of Mount Vernon, had worked for the Police Department for more than five years.

A Mount Vernon man with a previous drunken-driving conviction was arrested Friday morning on the same charge after being spotted driving erratically on the southbound Sprain Brook Parkway.

Fire equipment manufacturer Ahrens-Fox earned its reputation for innovation and premium quality by adhering to its founders' credo of "Nothing too good for the fire service, only the best will do." Considered by many collectors to be the "Cadillac" of fire apparatus, its vintage fire engines typically command premium prices at auction.

The winter-spring musical season that began in February with "Urinetown" at White Plains High School is drawing to a close this weekend.

Phyllis Anderson of the Jamaica Reading Association reads to grade-three students at the Jamaica Reading Association and First Heritage Co-operative Credit Union Reading Week 'Read-Aloud' session at the Cockburn Gardens Primary and Junior High School on Tuesday.

The man accused in the fatal shooting March 30 at the Q Ball won't be facing Spotsylvania County prosecutors anytime soon.

Eight families were displaced by a smokey fire in Mount Vernon Wednesday that tore through several apartments and spat a dense cloud of smoke onto the nearby Cross County Parkway, snarling traffic.

J. Michael Kirkland, CPA, will be installed as the 2013-2014 President of the New York State Society of Certified Public Accountants Board of Directors at the organization's 117th Annual Election Meeting and Dinner May 16th at the New York Marriott Marquis at Times Square.