Mount Vernon News

Two 17-year-olds were arrested in White Plains on Monday, accused of breaking into a home, stealing cash and car keys and then taking the owner's car for a joy ride.

MOUNT VERNON - A city man on lifetime parole for burglary was charged today with fatally stabbing a city woman to death in her apartment a week ago.

A murder investigation is underway in Mount Vernon where police found the body of woman in the back of an abandoned car.

PELHAM MANOR - A Mount Vernon woman was accused Wednesday of stealing more than $2,000 from her wholesale club employer, police said.

WHITE PLAINS - A Bronx man will serve 15 to 18 years in state prison for raping two teenage girls in his car in separate incidents in Mount Vernon and Yonkers two years ago.

MOUNT VERNON - Some tenants at a senior-citizen complex say they are being asked to do too much to help stamp out a bedbug infestation there.

MOUNT VERNON - The bodies of two women were found Monday within a mile of each other in two unrelated incidents on the west side of the city that police are labeling suspicious deaths, city police detectives said.

WHITE PLAINS - A Common Council meeting set for tonight to fire Public Safety Commissioner Frank Straub was canceled this morning, following Straub's resignation on Friday.

MOUNT VERNON - Tips from the public led police to arrest two brothers suspected of running a heroin operation out of their home.

Mt. Vernon, NY - At a press conference last Monday, Mayor Clinton I. Young, Jr., Youth Bureau Executive Director DaMia Harris, and several dozen youth within the community introduced a number of programs that are now offered through the Mount Vernon Youth Bureau during after-school hours and weekends.

Mt. Vernon Triangle, on Penn Quarter's northern fringe, could be a poster child for the glaciated development world.

Mount Vernon, NY The City of Mount Vernon will present a free seminar entitled "Stimulus Lending for Small Business" , Wednesday, November 18, 2009, 9:00am 11:00am at Mount Vernon City Hall, 1 Roosevelt Square, Memorial Room, Mount Vernon, NY.

Police have identified and charged an off-duty Eastchester police officer in the fatal shooting of a New Rochelle man Tuesday night.

It was clear on Election Night that she'd won a second term as Westchester district attorney.

Mount Vernon voters stayed true to party lines last night, electing a slate of Democrats, while Yonkers saw a close race for city council president that threatened to unseat incumbent Chuck Lesnick.

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An emotionally disturbed woman walked naked for blocks in Mount Vernon holding a baby and nobody stopped her, a according to eyewitnesses.

Police in Mount Vernon say an emotionally disturbed naked woman slammed her 6-month-old son repeatedly into the sidewalk Friday afternoon.

A 5-month-old infant was in critical condition at Westchester Medical Center on Friday after he was slammed to the sidewalk at least two to three times by his mother, who was naked and screaming in the street, police said.

Water pipe repairs may mean weak pressure in Mount Vernon and Yonkers tonight and may cut off water completely for a brief time in eastern Yonkers.